Lead Salesforce Architect
Salary: £80,000 - £120,000 + bonus + benefits
Role Overview:
A highly experienced and skilled Lead Salesforce Architect is required to join our team. As a key member of the architectural leadership team, you will be responsible for providing strategic direction and technical expertise to deliver large-scale Salesforce programmes.
Key Responsibilities:
* Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across complex digital transformation programmes.
* Lead architectural decision-making across Salesforce clouds including Sales, Service, Commerce, and Data Cloud.
* Translate business requirements into scalable Salesforce solutions, considering best practices, security, and integration patterns.
* Direct early-stage solution evaluations, working with technical and non-technical stakeholders including Pre-Sales, Delivery, Product and Engineering teams.
* Identify risks and gaps in current or target architectures, offering mitigation strategies.
* Provide architectural leadership across multi-disciplinary teams, coaching colleagues and partners on Salesforce delivery best practices.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* 12+ years in architecture and consulting, including 8+ years with Salesforce, covering multiple clouds and integration landscapes.
* End-to-end delivery experience on major Salesforce programmes, ideally with some hands-on development or deep architectural ownership.
* Strong grasp of integration technologies, master data management, and cloud platforms.
* Ability to influence senior business and technology stakeholders in matrixed enterprise environments.
* A proactive, strategic mindset with experience in shaping solution architecture for major digital transformations.
* Knowledge of Salesforce AppExchange, security patterns (e.g. SSO, data protection), and enterprise integration with tools like ESBs and ETLs.
* Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodologies.
Benefits:
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and are committed to accommodating reasonable adjustments throughout the hiring process.
Others:
If you're a Solution Architect with a strong Salesforce background and are ready to lead some of the most ambitious enterprise transformations in the industry, we'd love to hear from you.