Difference between a Solution Architect and Technical Architect at SF

Just initiated the conversation with Salesforce recruiter and other than some Industry focus for the Solution Architect - did not see much of a difference between the job descriptions for these 2 roles

This would be for L8/L9 level.

Can someone help understand the difference in day to day work?
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SA much more balances functional (business analysis) and technical, stays pretty much in the Salesforce product catalog, or maybe even becomes a SME in something (like CPQ, FSL, Tableau, etc.) TA spends a lot more time with the plumbing - integrations, identity & access, data and sharing architecture/ETL, code reviews, DevOps, performance, scalability, etc.

A lot depends on you + the project you are staffed to, though. Salesforce does NOT shy away from having TA's do SA work, or vice versa, or other stuff besides. For this reason, if you are technical enough to get hired on the TA track, you should do it... They get paid better than equivalent level SA's (per recruiting when I interviewed). I would argue the SA group has better leaders and organization, though.

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Can you share salary ranges for TA and how they compare to SA?

For SA - What I can say is that - It is less than what Big4’s offer (excluding the RSU’s)
If moving to a local Fortune 500 fits into your plans, you could make close to what SF would offer.

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