Location: Bengaluru, India
Function: Salesforce Engineering / Technology Leadership
Experience: 15+ years
About the Role:
Brillio is looking for a Salesforce Engineering Leader to define and drive the engineering vision for its growing Salesforce practice. This is a practice-level technology leadership role combining engineering strategy, enterprise architecture, AI innovation, solutioning, delivery excellence, talent development and client engagement.
The role will play a key part in building an AI-native Salesforce engineering practice, leveraging Agentforce, Data Cloud, Autonomous Engineering and Forward Deployed Engineering to deliver secure, scalable and measurable business outcomes for clients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the Salesforce engineering vision, strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned with business and client priorities.
- Provide architecture leadership for complex Salesforce, multi-cloud and industry solutions, including integration, data, security and platform architecture.
- Drive adoption of Agentforce, Data Cloud and AI-enabled engineering across the Salesforce delivery lifecycle.
- Establish engineering standards covering architecture, coding, quality, DevSecOps, release engineering, observability and operational excellence.
- Lead technical discovery, solution shaping, estimations, demonstrations and proposal development for strategic opportunities.
- Work closely with sales and pre-sales teams on complex pursuits and provide technical leadership where required.
- Develop reusable frameworks, accelerators, reference architectures and engineering assets to improve delivery speed, quality and predictability.
- Build, mentor and develop architects, principal engineers, engineering managers and future technology leaders.
- Engage with C-level and senior technology stakeholders, providing technical direction and influencing transformation roadmaps.
- Collaborate with Salesforce and ecosystem partners on technology, innovation and solution development.
- Drive technical thought leadership and contribute to the wider Salesforce and AI ecosystem.
Required Experience & Skills:
- 15+ years of overall technology experience with deep expertise in the Salesforce ecosystem.
- 7+ years of experience in customer-facing architecture, solutioning, consulting, pre-sales or revenue-influencing roles.
- Strong experience in Salesforce architecture and enterprise application engineering.
- Hands-on architectural expertise across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and enterprise integrations.
- Experience with at least one Salesforce industry cloud such as Health Cloud or Financial Services Cloud.
- Strong understanding of Agentforce, Data Cloud, AI-enabled engineering and responsible AI.
- Experience establishing architecture governance, engineering standards, DevSecOps, quality frameworks and release practices.
- Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams, programs or geographies.
- Strong people leadership experience, including mentoring architects, principal engineers and engineering managers.
- Experience in solution proposals, technical narratives, estimations, demonstrations and strategic pursuits.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage senior and executive-level clients.
- Relevant Salesforce Architect certifications are expected; Application Architect and System Architect certifications are strongly preferred.
What Makes This Role Different:
- Practice-level technology leadership with influence across engineering strategy, architecture, innovation and talent.
- Opportunity to build and institutionalise the next generation of AI-native Salesforce engineering.
- Direct involvement in strategic client engagements, pursuits and executive technology discussions.
- Opportunity to create reusable AI, Salesforce and engineering accelerators and shape the practice's technical direction.
- Build and develop a strong pipeline of next-generation Salesforce technology leaders.
