Salesforce Life Sciences Functional Architect Senior Manager

About the role

We Are:

• Accenture’s Salesforce Business Group — one of the largest and most experienced Salesforce practices in the world.
• We’ve been building on this platform since the beginning, which means we’ve seen what works, what doesn’t, and how to deliver at scale.
• We’re Master Certified across all 12 industries and clouds, and our team holds over 4,200 certifications including Certified Technical Architect (CTA).
• In Life Sciences specifically, we bring deep domain knowledge alongside our Salesforce expertise — helping clients modernize commercial operations, improve patient engagement, and build the platforms that power their next phase of growth.
• We invest in our people through ongoing training, specialization paths, and a culture of continuous learning.

You Are

You Are:

• A Salesforce Life Sciences Functional Architect at the Senior Manager level within Accenture’s Salesforce Business Group.
• You operate at the strategic and executive layer of delivery — owning the overall solution vision for large, complex programs while guiding and developing the architects and leads beneath you.
• You are as comfortable presenting architecture trade-offs to a VP or Director as you are diving into a data model with a developer.
• You have strong opinions, earned through experience, and the judgment to know when to hold them and when to adapt.
• Clients trust you.
• Your teams learn from you.

The Work

• Own the overall solution architecture vision for large-scale, multi-workstream Salesforce Life Sciences programs, ensuring coherence across functional design, technical implementation, data strategy, and integration.
• Serve as the senior liaison between business leadership and technical delivery teams — translating strategic intent into architecture direction and, where needed, stepping into a functional or technical lead capacity to break through design impasses, resolve ambiguity, or accelerate alignment across the program.
• Lead architecture governance across the delivery program — setting standards, conducting design reviews, and making binding decisions on platform direction and technical approach.
• Act as the primary solution escalation point for the delivery team; resolve cross-workstream design conflicts and align stakeholders on path forward.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders at the VP and Director level, translating complex architecture concepts into business impact narratives and facilitating alignment across business and technology leaders.
• Guide and mentor Manager-level Solution Architects, senior functional leads, and tech leads; actively develop the next generation of SA talent within the practice.
• Partner with Accenture’s alliance teams, Salesforce product teams, and third-party vendors to shape the solution approach and leverage the latest platform capabilities.
• Lead solution design contributions during pursuit phases, including architecture sections of RFP responses, solution demonstrations, and client orals.
• Drive practice development through reusable assets, architecture blueprints, and industry-specific point-of-view content for the Life Sciences commercial space.
• Manage solution risk at the program level — identifying systemic architectural risks early and working with delivery leadership to mitigate.

Here’s What You Need

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive Salesforce delivery experience, with demonstrated tenure in solution architecture or senior platform leadership roles
• Experience architecting and delivering multiple large-scale, complex Salesforce programs in Life Sciences or an adjacent regulated industry (e.g., MedTech, Payer, Provider)
• Experience with Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud (LSC), Health Cloud, or equivalent pharma/biotech CRM platforms and expertise in how these clouds are applied across commercial, medical, and patient-facing use cases
• Experience leading delivery using Agile, hybrid, or scaled Agile frameworks at program scale (e.g., SAFe, multi-team Scrum) and shaping methodology decisions for the engagement
• Experience leveraging AI/ML capabilities (e.g., Salesforce Einstein, Agentforce, generative AI tools) within Life Sciences commercial solutions, including ability to advise clients on AI strategy and adoption
• Experience supporting Life Sciences clients and/or the Life Sciences industry at a senior delivery or advisory level
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years’ work experience)

Bonus Points If

• Salesforce Certified Application Architect, System Architect, or CTA (Certified Technical Architect) designation
• Experience operating as a functional and technical hybrid — with enough depth on both sides to design end-to-end solutions without siloing into one lane
• Deep integration architecture experience including MuleSoft, event-driven architectures, or enterprise API strategy in complex Life Sciences environments
• Experience with commercial transformation programs in pharma/biotech: HCP engagement, field force enablement, patient services, or commercial data strategy
• Pre-sales leadership experience including owning architecture narrative for competitive RFP responses and executive-level solution presentations
• Relationship management experience at the Director and VP level with Life Sciences clients, with a track record of building trust and repeat engagement
• Experience building and leading high-performing, geographically distributed delivery teams at Senior Manager level or above

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience.

Annual Salary Range

• California: $132,500 to $302,400
• Cleveland: $122,700 to $241,900
• Colorado: $132,500 to $261,300
• District of Columbia: $141,100 to $278,200
• Illinois: $122,700 to $261,300
• Maine: $112,900 to $222,500
• Maryland: $132,500 to $261,300
• Massachusetts: $132,500 to $278,200
• Minnesota: $132,500 to $261,300
• New York: $122,700 to $302,400
• New Jersey: $141,100 to $302,400
• Virginia: $122,700 to $278,200
• Washington: $141,100 to $278,200
• New York City, NY
• Albany, NY
• Arlington, VA
• Atlanta, GA
• Austin, TX
• Beaverton, OR
• Bentonville, AR
• Boston, MA
• Carmel, IN
• Charlotte, NC
• Chicago, IL
• Cincinnati, OH
• Cleveland, OH
• Columbus, OH
• Culver City, CA
• Denver, CO
• Des Moines, IA
• Detroit, MI
• Hartford, CT
• Houston, TX
• Irving, TX
• Kirkland, WA
• Miami, FL
• Milwaukee, WI
• Minneapolis, MN
• Morristown, NJ
• Mountain View, CA
• Nashville, TN
• Oklahoma City, OK
• Overland Park, KS
• Philadelphia, PA
• Pittsburgh, PA
• Raleigh, NC
• Redmond, WA
• Sacramento, CA
• San Diego, CA
• San Francisco, CA
• Scottsdale, AZ
• Seattle, WA
• St. Louis, MO
• St. Petersburg, FL
• Walnut Creek, CA