Senior/Lead Platform Solution Engineer - Data Foundations

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Sales Job Details About Salesforce Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Salesforce is looking for a motivated Platform Solution Engineer to join our extremely talented Pre-Sales Solution Engineering team, who are instrumental to MuleSoft’s growth. As a Platform Solution Engineer , you will be the trusted technical expert in showing and proving how the Anypoint Platform can meet the customers technical requirements. You will partner closely with Account Solution Engineers and Account Executives to qualify sales opportunities using your technical and product expertise throughout the end-to-end sales cycle. You will be an integral part of the success for our customers by performing technical discovery qualification, making architectural recommendations for the solution, building complex product demonstrations and POCs. As a passionate technologist and customer advocate, you will connect the dots between the technical solution to business value for the customer. These are the core skills you’ll need to be successful: • 4 years or more in solutions architecture, pre-sales engineering or technical consulting for enterprise software, with time spent on the selling side of complex deals. • A passion for technology and translating that passion into business impact for customers • Excellent verbal communication, presentation abilities and composure in front of all levels of technical audiences • Hands-on application development experience in Java, API, cloud-native application development either in an enterprise environment • Working knowledge of cloud technologies - iPaaS, SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure, etc. is preferred • Experience of scoping, managing and building complex Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and responding to functional & technical elements of RFIs/RFPs independently and effectively • Current hands on experience with some or all of the following: middleware, integration architecture patterns, enterprise messaging patterns, cloud platforms i.e., hyperscalers, APIs, AI technologies like LLMs. • Hands-on depth in at least one of AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, and in enterprise integration: APIs, identity and single sign-on, data platforms and networking. • A working understanding of large language models, retrieval, and how AI agents are built, orchestrated and governed in production. • Experience with SaaS, private cloud and on-premises deployment, and the trade-offs a client weighs between them. • The ability to draw an architecture and explain it to a CIO, a CISO and an engineer in the same meeting, and to write a clear technical answer to a deadline. What you’ll achieve: 3 months: • Become certified in MuleSoft’s Developer trainings • Complete MuleSoft’s sales onboarding program • Begin to build your architecture reframe and whiteboarding skills through shadowing and customer-scenario role playing • Create a demonstration on a MuleSoft technical topic of interest 6 months: • Become certified in all Product, Architecture, and Sales Messaging trainings • Deliver product presentations and demonstrations that are tailored to the client’s technical requirements and audience • Develop Proofs of Concept (PoCs) as part of an account team to demonstrate the art of the possible • Put all the pieces together to “perfect your craft” by helping to close deals 12 months: • Participate in the continuous improvement of MuleSoft products by making technical contributions and by providing feedback from the field to Product Marketing and Engineering • Partner with the Account team on account planning and strategy and support marketing with evangelism activities (writing blogs, participating in demo-driven webinars, speaking at industry events, etc.) 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. Accommodations If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form . Please note that Salesforce uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help our recruiters assess and evaluate candidates’ resumes and qualifications throughout the recruiting process. Humans will always make any candidate selection and hiring decisions. Please see our Candidate Privacy Statement for more information about how we use your personal data and your rights, including with regard to use of AI tools and opt out options. 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