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Technical Architect, SMB Pre-Sales
Salesforce INC · 🇺🇸 New York - New York
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 1,544 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 498 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Salesforce INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles5 certified filings for “Principal, Technical Architect” (Sales Engineers) in MA: $193k–$207k, median $193k. Most were filed at wage level III (60%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 1,544 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 498 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. The Role Summary As an SMB Technical Architect, you are a pre-sales, customer-facing expert for our fastest-growing customers. You apply broad technical skills and business acumen to help sales teams align Salesforce AI, Data, and Security solutions with our customers’ data and AI transformation strategies. • Act as a subject matter expert in business strategy, application architecture, data, integration, security, governance, and AI. • Use a consultative approach to understand customer business and technical requirements • Determine optimal data/application/security/AI architectures for customers based on product knowledge, industry standards, and customer needs • Develop repeatable propositions and go-to-market strategies for sales teams TAs in the AIforce Era As TAs, we understand the total Salesforce architecture, from the data context layer to the foundations of Customer 360, to the new era of AI ( https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/aiforce-announcement/ ). Broadly, this is how we apply our expertise at all layers of the Salesforce ecosystem: • AIforce. We talk about the security, cost, and governance tradeoffs of LLMs v. Salesforce AI tools. • Agentforce. We speak to the advantages of deterministic v. probabilistic AI and when to build v. go OOB. • Customer 360. We advocate for the strengths of Salesforce as a platform and explain why vibe-coding a CRM will fail. • Data 360. We define integrations with other systems and create a data architecture that makes sense based on customer priorities. Baseline Requirements Data & AI • Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouse and lakehouse platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Azure Synapse, or equivalent) • Strong SQL skills and comfort with data modeling across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data • Practical experience with agentic AI or generative AI Cloud & Engineering • Deep knowledge of enterprise data platforms and cloud architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure — including data services, networking, identity, security, and governance) • Data management fundamentals: data modeling, MDM, identity resolution, data quality, governance, and lineage • Integration principles: APIs, event streaming (Kafka/Pub-Sub), ETL/ELT patterns • Principles of network, application, and information security Communication, Consulting & Logistics • Ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into a compelling solution narrative for executive, technical, and business audiences • Strategic problem solver and thought leader; comfortable at the C-suite level • Lifelong learner - inquisitive, practical, passionate about technology and sharing knowledge • Willing and able to travel domestically (1-2 times per quarter) • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Data Science, Software Engineering, or other STEM field (or equivalent experience) Preferred Requirements • Lakehouse & Unified Data Architecture: Deep understanding o