Sr. Data Architect - Unified Activation Services

What You'll Do

• Lead architecture for Unified Activation Services (UAS) : Define and maintain the reference architecture, data flow patterns, and canonical schemas enabling zero-copy, domain-driven interoperability across Salesforce applications.
• Standardize and scale data activation : Establish frameworks for reusable data activation pipelines (batch, streaming, API-based), ensuring consistency, compliance, and reuse across domains.
• Drive Data Mesh principles : Embed data mesh practices—domain ownership, data contracts, product thinking—within UAS, enabling decentralized innovation while maintaining global consistency.
• Enable AI / ML-ready data ecosystems : Design data architectures that accelerate AI / ML enablement and consumption—ensuring discoverable, high-quality, semantically enriched, and contextually governed data assets.
• Wear the Customer Zero hat : Act as an early adopter of Salesforce platforms and solutions within UAS, applying and validating architectural patterns in real-world scenarios. Work closely with product architecture teams to share feedback, lessons learned, and insights from UAS implementations, ensuring that reference architectures and activation patterns are practical, scalable, and aligned across domains.
• Partner closely with the UAS product and engineering teams to deliver on the overall roadmap, ensuring architectural alignment and successful execution of initiatives defined by the UAS product team.
• Champion enterprise governance and compliance : Enforce data standards, lineage, and policy controls while reducing tech debt and ensuring architectural guardrails are followed.
• Bridge across domains : Collaborate with cross domain architects, engineering, and business partners across Marketing, Sales, Service, and Platform to ensure seamless activation and interoperability.
• Leverage enterprise tools and building blocks : Drive adoption of approved technologies (i.e. Salesforce Data Cloud, MuleSoft, Tableau, etc.) to standardize data activation and delivery.
• Mentor and influence : Partner with other domain architects to share best practices, patterns, and frameworks for unified data activation and governance.

What You Must Have to Be Successful

Why This Role Matters

Unified Activation Services sits at the core of Salesforce's data-to-insight-to-action strategy. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how Salesforce activates trusted data across its ecosystem, reducing cost, improving data consistency, and accelerating AI adoption enterprise-wide.

If you're passionate about driving architectural excellence, interoperability, and scalable data activation, this is your opportunity to leave a lasting mark on Salesforce's data future.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future—but to redefine what's possible—for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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Compensation : In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. SalesForce offers a variety of benefits to help you live well including : time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program. Base salary range : $211,500 to $306,600 (Washington); $230,800 to $334,600 (California).

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