Salesforce Technical Architect Marketing Cloud Data Cloud & Marketing Cloud Next

Role Overview

Strike IT Recruitment Services is seeking an experienced Salesforce Technical Architect to join a major enterprise digital transformation program. This contract position is based full-time onsite in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role focuses on defining and owning the technical solution across the Salesforce marketing and customer data landscape, with a particular emphasis on Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, and Marketing Cloud Next.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Salesforce technical architecture across Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, and Marketing Cloud Next.
• Lead client discovery, architecture, and solution design workshops.
• Translate marketing, customer engagement, and data requirements into scalable Salesforce solutions.
• Architect solutions using Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next, including its interaction with Data Cloud and the wider Salesforce platform.
• Design customer data architectures supporting unified customer profiles, segmentation, activation, and personalization.
• Define integration architecture between Salesforce and wider marketing, CRM, data, and enterprise platforms.
• Design solutions covering customer journeys, marketing automation, campaign execution, and personalized customer engagement.
• Define appropriate approaches for data ingestion, identity resolution, harmonization, segmentation, and activation within Data Cloud.
• Ensure architecture meets requirements around scalability, security, performance, data governance, and privacy.
• Establish technical standards, architecture principles, and development best practices.
• Produce and review architecture documentation, solution designs, and integration patterns.
• Work closely with functional consultants, developers, data specialists, and other Salesforce architects.
• Provide technical direction and leadership to offshore/distributed Salesforce delivery teams.
• Support technical decision-making throughout design, build, testing, and deployment.
• Clearly communicate complex architectural concepts to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Experience and Skills

• 5-10 years of experience as a Salesforce Technical Architect.
• Deep expertise across Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, and Marketing Cloud Next.
• Knowledge and practical experience of Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next.
• Strong Marketing Cloud and Data Cloud architecture experience.
• Ability to understand marketing and customer engagement objectives and translate them into scalable Salesforce architectures.
• Experience providing technical leadership to both onsite and offshore delivery teams.

Contract Details

This is an initial 6-12 month contract position with potential for extension based on program requirements. The role requires full-time onsite presence in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of a major enterprise Salesforce transformation program.