Principal Data Cloud Solution Engineer

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Job Description

The Principal Data Cloud Solution Engineer at Salesforce will drive the entire sales opportunity lifecycle, from technical discovery to close. This role requires collaboration with Account Executives, developing industry-specific use cases, and scaling technical evaluations of Salesforce Data Cloud. Responsibilities include creating field enablement assets, advising product marketing, and delivering Salesforce's data strategy viewpoint. The ideal candidate possesses full-stack technical qualifications (CRM, Data Architecture, AI/ML), experience with C-level executives, and expertise in integrating complex data architectures. A deep understanding of hyperscale data providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data architecture approaches is crucial.
Must have:
  • Customer-facing solutioning for Data, Analytics, AI, and CRM
  • Full-stack technical qualifications (CRM, Data Architecture, AI/ML)
  • Integrating complex data architectures
  • Experience with C-level executives
  • Hyperscale Data provider experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Good to have:
  • Understanding consumption selling
  • Expertise in modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks etc.)
  • Data analytics tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI)
  • AI: Data Engineering, machine learning, Vector Databases & RAG, MLOps
  • Knowledge of Salesforce platform
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About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Delivering customer success with Data + AI + CRM + Trust is the unique value proposition for Salesforce and the Customer 360 Platform.


Salesforce Data Cloud is focused on next-generation technology at Salesforce and the flagship innovation and hyperscale data platform built natively into Salesforce.
We are creating a dynamic, constantly evolving environment where expertise in design, and technology is demonstrated every day to drive innovation.


As an SE in Salesforce Data Cloud you will bring a unique combination of executive-level presence combined with full-stack technical skills that ensure Data Cloud delivers value to customers integrated with complex customer data architectures!


Key Responsibilities

  • Arrange and conduct in-person & web-based meetings to drive the entire opportunity lifecycle from technical discovery to technical close

  • Collaborate strategically with Account Executives across the customer base and the sales organization to prioritize and develop Industry-specific use cases grounded in consistent architectures that have proven repeatability with customers

  • Implement programs to efficiently scale technical evaluation of Salesforce Data Cloud

  • Collaborate with Salesforce product teams to deeply understand Salesforce solutions and roadmap, and advocate for key features needed for success across the Industry/Territory via Voice of the Customer feedback

  • Develop scalable, deployable, reusable, and relevant field enablement technical assets that drive differentiated business outcomes in order to accelerate adoption across customers, partners, and sales teams

  • Partner with Product Marketing to advise messaging and sales plays across all of Salesforce

  • Deliver the overall Salesforce point-of-view for data strategy aligned to industry-specific use cases

  • Experience in articulating Data & AI ROI value to Business & getting the IT buy in

  • Industry domain experience relevant to Data architecture approaches and knowledge in mapping business capabilities to technical capabilities

  • Aware of latest trends in industry including Lakehouses, data governance, LLMs, Agents


Essential Requirements

  • Experience in customer-facing solutioning for Data, Analytics, AI (ML/RAG) and CRM

  • Full-stack technical qualifications (CRM, Data Architecture, AI/ML) combined with experience owning technical relationships with C-Level executives

  • Experience integrating complex data architectures to drive business value for customers

  • Experience in 1 or more Hyperscale Data providers (ex. AWS, Azure, GCP)

  • Skilled at guiding impactful discovery conversations to unveil multifaceted client needs and objectives

  • Experience driving customer success in large, complex selling organizations

  • Persuasive verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communication skills that inspire change in large organizations

  • Fluent in English (+fluent in Nordic language is a pre)

Preferred Requirements

  • Understanding market trends in consumption selling business and experience in driving consumption through value use cases

  • Hands-on expertise in modern cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Big Query, RedShift), data analytics tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI), data programming models (DataFrames, pandas), and AI

  • AI: Data Engineering, machine learning, Vector Databases & RAG, MLOps (a plus: Agentic AI and Agents)

  • Technical knowledge of the Salesforce platform

  • Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.)

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