Data Architect

Who you are

• Data Architecture Strategy & Value Realisation: Proven ability to analyse complex customer challenges and architect innovative Data solutions. You will guide critical architectural discussions around data foundations, including advising stakeholders on data governance, cataloguing, and data quality tools. You will endeavour to design accessible, trustworthy architectures and foster continuous platform adoption by identifying new business use cases
• Data & Cloud Fundamentals: Practical understanding of hybrid software deployments, database design, data warehousing, or business intelligence concepts
• Architectural Advisory: Provide crucial architectural guidance to support the creation of compelling demos that clearly illustrate immediate ROI and practical application for diverse stakeholders
• Workshop Facilitation & Strategic Alignment: Expertise in orchestrating inclusive, targeted technical workshops to guide key decisions and align architectural best practices with the customer's core business priorities
• Thought Leadership & Technical Enablement: A track record of producing clear architectural diagrams and best-practice documentation, actively sharing knowledge on emerging AI trends and Data innovations to empower both internal teams and customers
• Regional Mobility: Ability to travel as needed (up to a maximum of 30% of the time) across the UK and Ireland region
• Storytelling & Sales Partnership: Strong experience partnering collaboratively with Sales and Solutions Engineering teams during the sales process
• Hands-On Implementation Experience: While this role focuses on architectural strategy and advisory, practical, hands-on configuration or implementation experience with these data governance and quality tools is considered a strong advantage
• Specific Product Ecosystems: Architectural experience with other Informatica or MuleSoft tools, such as MDM, data and application integration, and APIs
• Regulatory Frameworks: In-depth knowledge of compliance mandates (e.g., GDPR, BCBS239, EU AI Act)
• Advanced AI Concepts: Practical experience of Agentic AI and emerging generative workflows
• Education: A Bachelor's or above degree in Computer Science or a closely related technical field
• Research shows that underrepresented candidates often hesitate to apply unless they meet 100% of the listed requirements. At Salesforce, we value potential, adaptability, and real-world problem-solving just as much as formal credentials
• If you have a strong background in pre-sales and are excited about the future of data and AI, we want to hear from you, even if you don't possess every single item listed above

What the job involves

• As a Data Architect, you will act as a trusted advisor to our customers, leveraging your deep technical expertise in data governance, cataloguing, data quality and data infrastructure to guide them through Informatica and MuleSoft solutions. Working closely with Account Executives, Solution Engineers and C-level leaders throughout the end-to-end sales cycle, you will use your strong presentation and solutioning skills to navigate complex accounts. By aligning technical and architectural requirements with customer business drivers, strategy, and funding, you will qualify opportunities and ensure our customers realize the platform's full value
• You will support the customer's enterprise architects and domain architects to build an Architectural Vision and to-be Architecture for Agentic and Data Transformation, with a clear positioning of the value of Informatica and MuleSoft in this vision. You will also help persuade senior IT executives (CTO, CIO, Head of digital, and others) to adopt this vision to achieve their goals
• In Your First 30–60 Days: You'll complete onboarding, pair with senior teammates on customer opportunities, get certified on core Data Foundation products
• By Day 90: You’ll start to lead architectural discussions with our customers, Deliver architecture presentations that are tailored to the client’s technical requirements and audience, and work alongside Client Solution Engineers on strategic opportunities
• Beyond: You’ll achieve full certification across product, architecture, and sales messaging, alongside the successful delivery of a Self Service asset. In this role, you will drive strategic account planning in partnership with Account Executives, create comprehensive evaluation plans for large accounts, and lead tailored presentations and workshops to guide enterprise clients through their architectural journeys. Additionally, you will champion the brand by supporting marketing and evangelism initiatives through blogs, demo-driven webinars, and industry speaking engagements

Benefits

• Medical Care
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Savings
• Employee Assistance Programs
• With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year