Field CTO, Data Governance and MDM, Data Foundations

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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.

Applications will be accepted until 10/30/2026.

The Field CTO organization sits at the intersection of our customers’ most strategic technology priorities, our field teams, and our product organization. We work with senior technology and business leaders to help them navigate complex architectural decisions, define durable technology strategies, and translate those strategies into business outcomes.

🚀 About the Role

We are looking for a Field CTO specializing in Data Governance and Master Data Management (MDM) to help shape how our most strategic customers think about trusted, governed, enterprise data in an increasingly AI-driven world. This is not simply a product specialist role. The ideal candidate brings a strong point of view on enterprise data architecture, governance, metadata, MDM, data quality, and the organizational models required to make them successful. They can engage credibly with Chief Data Officers, CIOs, Enterprise Architects, Data Governance leaders, and engineering organizations, while also helping our internal teams connect customer challenges to the broader Salesforce, Informatica, MuleSoft, Data Cloud, and Agentforce strategy.

📋 What You’ll Do • Serve as a trusted technology advisor to strategic customers on **Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata Management, and enterprise data architecture**. • Engage with CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects, and other senior leaders to define data strategies aligned to their broader business and technology objectives. • Help customers establish modern governance architectures that balance enterprise-wide standards and controls with the realities of decentralized business units, platforms, clouds, and data estates. • Advise customers on MDM strategy, including domain modeling, identity resolution, hierarchy management, reference data, survivorship, stewardship, data quality, and the operational models required to sustain trusted master data. • Connect traditional data management disciplines with emerging requirements created by **AI and autonomous agents**, including trusted context, governed access, semantic consistency, metadata, lineage, policy enforcement, and data quality. • Develop architectural points of view for customers operating across complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments. • Help customers understand the relationship between their data, integration, API, application, and AI strategies rather than treating each as an independent technology decision. • Lead executive briefings, architecture workshops, strategy sessions, and other high-value customer engagements. • Partner with Account Executives, Solution Engineers, Account Partners, and other field leaders on our most strategic and complex opportunities. • Help shape account strategy where architecture, organizational complexity, or technology fragmentation represents a major barrier to customer transformation. • Act as an escalation and advisory resource for complex customer architecture questions involving Data Governance and MDM. • Bring patterns, lessons, competitive intelligence, and emerging customer requirements back to Product and Engineering leadership. • Partner closely with Salesforce and Informatica product organizations to help influence roadmap priorities based on recurring strategic customer needs. • Develop reusable thought leadership, architectural patterns, executive narratives, and field guidance that raise the technical credibility of the broader organization. • Represent Salesforce externally with customers, partners, industry forums, executive events, and other thought-leadership opportunities. • Mentor architects and technical leaders across the field and help strengthen our organizational depth in enterprise data architecture.

📃 About You • You are equally comfortable in a boardroom, an architecture workshop, and a whiteboard session with deeply technical practitioners. • You have strong opinions about enterprise data architecture, but you know when architecture needs to adapt to business reality. • You understand that Data Governance is as much an operating-model and organizational problem as it is a technology problem. • You can explain MDM without reducing it to matching, merging, and golden records—and can articulate its relevance to modern data, analytics, and AI architectures. • You can navigate highly distributed and heterogeneous technology estates without assuming that everything needs to be consolidated onto one platform. • You are a systems thinker who can connect data governance, integration, APIs, metadata, identity, analytics, applications, and AI. • You can move fluidly between strategic conversations and detailed technical discussions. • You build trust quickly with senior executives, architects, product leaders, sellers, and engineers. • You communicate complex ideas simply, clearly, and with executive presence. • You are comfortable operating in ambiguity and helping customers make decisions where there may not be a single obvious answer.

🎯 What We’re Looking For • Significant experience in **enterprise data architecture, Data Governance, MDM, Data Quality,

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