Salesforce

Salesforce Senior/ Director Technical Architect, FINS/LSC

In short

Salesforce Professional Services seeks a Technical Architect (Senior/Director level) focused on Agentforce for Life Sciences (AFLS), serving as a strategic advisor to large life sciences enterprise customers on agentic, AI-first Salesforce solutions. The role requires 8+ years of enterprise architecture or consulting experience, strong application, data, integration and security architecture skills, and background in pharmaceutical commercial or clinical operations. Based in Chicago, Illinois, with a base salary range of $178,900–$344,700/year for this location.

About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together.
The Experience
The Professional Services organization is focused on delivering Salesforce's world-class product and project offerings to ensure customers are getting the most out of the Salesforce Platform. Our team is made up of thousands of the world's leading Salesforce experts, sharing 20 years of product best practices.
Salesforce Professional Services is looking for Technical Architects (multiple levels) focused on Agentforce for Life Sciences (AFLS). AFLS is one of Salesforce's fastest-growing and most strategic product areas, now adopted by more than 140 industry-leading organizations globally. In this role, you will serve as a strategic advisor and Salesforce product and platform expert to the company's largest, most complex life sciences enterprise customers, helping them architect and deliver agentic, AI-first solutions across their commercial and clinical operations.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
•Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
•Identify and lead internal strategic initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serving as an active contributor to the community's overall knowledge base and expertise
•Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying emerging technologies that drive increased business value
•Work collaboratively and have very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking
•Identify and proactively manage risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
•Manage customer expectations; negotiate solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners
•Review and correct project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward
•Work closely with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and directly with clients to architect technology solutions to meet client needs
•Contribute to a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies on enabling technologies including the Salesforce Platform
You're Our Person If...
•8+ years enterprise architecture or consulting experience
•Strong application design skills combined with strong data, integration, and security architecture skills
•Experience in the Life Sciences industry, particularly Pharma/Biopharma. Candidates should have backgrounds in pharmaceutical commercial operations, field force engagement, HCP/HCO relationship management, or regulatory compliance
•Strong presentation skills, able to effectively present and defend a point of view to a variety of audiences
•Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
•Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience
•A great listener with the ability to communicate with people in diverse roles
•Proven ability to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration
•Strong experience in Integration concepts, designs, and patterns
Even Better If...
•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent work experience will be considered
•Multiple Salesforce Architecture certifications, or Salesforce Certified Agentforce Life Sciences Consultant (launched March 2026)
•Hands-on experience with Agentforce for Life Sciences (AFLS) or equivalent Life Sciences CRM platforms, including knowledge of HCP/HCO structures, Affiliations, Specialty Pharmacy, Medical Affairs, and compliant engagement workflows
•Experience supporting or delivering implementations for major pharmaceutical companies, with familiarity with the agentic enterprise model and how AI agents can transform life sciences commercial and clinical operations
Required Qualities
•TRUST: Trusts the company's core values; shows integrity, transparency, and reliability
•TEAM PLAYER: Proficient at collaboration and working with members of a team
•COMMUNICATOR: Speaks and writes with clarity, brevity, and purpose; explains the area of expertise clearly and confidently to others; influences and engages C-Level with authority and confidence
Compensation
The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $313,700 annually. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations. In California and New York, and select cities in the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington DC, the base pay range for this role in those locations is $178,900 - $344,700 per year. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.

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