Salesforce Architect - US Remote Position

Req ID: 387935 

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Salesforce Architect - US Remote Position 

Our Salesforce Architects are fundamental to ensuring the digital technology and related services that NTT DATA builds for our clients are valuable, intuitive, and impactful. The work of Salesforce Architects provides our clients and team with support, leadership, and direction to make sure projects are executed well and to deliver the engagement as promised.

Day to Day / Job Function

• Own end-to-end solution architecture across Agentforce, Salesforce CPQ and Revenue Cloud Advanced.
• Architect agent-assisted and agentic workflows across opportunity, configuration, pricing, quoting, contracting, ordering and revenue lifecycle processes.
• Design agent orchestration patterns, including tool/function calling, workflow delegation, multi-agent patterns, state management and memory.
• Architect integration of Agentforce with Salesforce automation, Apex, Flow, APIs, MuleSoft and external enterprise services.
• Define appropriate use of LLMs, deterministic logic, workflow engines and traditional automation, rather than defaulting all use cases to generative AI.
• Design context engineering and retrieval strategies, including structured/unstructured grounding, retrieval depth, metadata filtering and relevance optimization.
• Establish secure agent action patterns using least-privilege access, guardrails, validation, approval checkpoints and human-in-the-loop mechanisms.
• Define AI evaluation frameworks covering answer quality, grounding, hallucination, task completion, tool selection, latency and business outcomes.
• Establish observability across agent reasoning paths, actions, integration failures, token/credit consumption and operational performance.
• Assess model and platform trade-offs across quality, latency, context window, cost, privacy and enterprise constraints.
• Architect resilient action layers and transactional integration patterns for revenue processes where consistency and recoverability are critical.
• Advise programs on consumption-based economics, AI credit/token optimization and architectural approaches to control run-time cost.
• Lead architecture reviews, design authorities and technical governance across global delivery teams.
• Mentor technical architects, developers and Agentforce specialists.

Required Technical Expertise

• 15+ years overall technology experience
• 10+ years in Salesforce CPQ / Revenue Cloud architecture.
• 10+ years experience architecting enterprise CPQ / Quote-to-Cash implementations.
• 10+ years of Salesforce CPQ and Revenue Cloud Advanced / Revenue Lifecycle Management.
• 10+ years of Salesforce Sales Cloud and core platform architecture.
• 2+ years experience in Salesforce Agentforce and associated agentic architecture concepts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Agent orchestration and tool/function calling.
• Multi-agent architectures, delegation and coordination patterns.
• Agent state, short/long-term memory and session/context management.
• MCP and agent-to-agent interoperability concepts/patterns.
• RAG, semantic/vector search, embeddings, chunking and retrieval optimization.
• Context engineering beyond basic prompt engineering.
• Evaluation frameworks and AI observability.
• AI safety, grounding, guardrails and least-privilege action design.
• LLM model selection and architectural trade-offs.
• Classic NLP concepts including intent classification, entity extraction, semantic similarity and ranking.
• Apex, Lightning Platform, Flow, APIs and enterprise integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous processing, transaction boundaries, resiliency, retries and idempotency.
• Security architecture including sharing, CRUD/FLS, permission models and data protection.
• Experience with MuleSoft and large enterprise integration landscapes preferred.
• Ability to communicate architectural decisions to both engineering teams and senior business stakeholders."

Credentials/Certifications

• Salesforce Application/System/Technical Architect credentials strongly preferred.
• Agentforce and Revenue Cloud-related certifications or demonstrable implementation experience.

NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this remote role is $128,858.00 - $238,625.00. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications.

This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance. If the position offered in temporary, the position will not be eligible for incentive compensation.

This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits.

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About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

Whenever possible, we hire locally to NTT DATA offices or client sites. This ensures we can provide timely and effective support tailored to each client’s needs. While many positions offer remote or hybrid work options, these arrangements are subject to change based on client requirements. For employees near an NTT DATA office or client site, in-office attendance may be required for meetings or events, depending on business needs. At NTT DATA, we are committed to staying flexible and meeting the evolving needs of both our clients and employees. NTT DATA recruiters will never ask for payment or banking information and will only use @nttdata.com, @nttdatafed.com and @talent.nttdataservices.com email addresses. If you are requested to provide payment or disclose banking information, please submit a contact us form, https://us.nttdata.com/en/contact-us.

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