Solutions Architect Lead

NRI Holdings; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NRI Holdings is seeking a Senior Salesforce Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale Salesforce Solutions. You will act as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders, guiding architectural leadership across complex programs and ensuring scalable, secure outcomes aligned with strategic objectives.

You will run architecture workshops, craft end-to-end Salesforce solutions, and develop implementation roadmaps while balancing scalability, maintainability,

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Salesforce consulting experience.
• Proven success designing and delivering complex Salesforce transformation programs.
• Deep understanding of Salesforce platform architecture, integration frameworks, security models, automation, data strategy, and governance.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
• Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently from technical teams through to executive leadership.
• Salesforce certifications aligned to architecture, platform, integration, or application design disciplines.
• Experience defining solution roadmaps and target-state architecture for enterprise clients.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to contribute to business development and growth initiatives.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and problem-solving capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture workshops and technical discovery sessions with clients.
• Design end-to-end Salesforce solutions that align business objectives with platform best practices.
• Develop solution architectures, integration strategies, data models, security frameworks, and implementation roadmaps.
• Provide governance and architectural oversight throughout the project lifecycle.
• Architect solutions across the Salesforce ecosystem including CRM, customer engagement, automation, analytics, integration, AI-enabled capabilities, and platform services.
• Define architectural standards, design patterns, and development best practices.
• Drive platform adoption and long-term solution sustainability.
• Stay current with Salesforce product innovations, release cycles, industry trends, and ecosystem technologies.
• Collaborate closely with Functional Consultants, Project Managers, Developers, and client stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.
• Review technical designs and ensure alignment with business and functional requirements.
• Guide complex integration, automation, data migration, and transformation initiatives.
• Support proof-of-concepts, solution demonstrations, and technical governance activities.
• Contribute to estimation, project planning, and risk management activities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive, business, and technology stakeholders.
• Support pre-sales activities including solution shaping, proposals, bid responses, and client presentations.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes and strategic recommendations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring across the Salesforce practice.
• Support the development of consultants, developers, and emerging architects.
• Participate in capability development, recruitment, and community initiatives.

Skills

Salesforce architecture

Stakeholder management

Enterprise delivery

Leadership

Solution design

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

As a Senior Salesforce Solution Architect, you will lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions, helping clients transform business processes and maximise the value of their Salesforce investment. Acting as a trusted advisor to both business and technology stakeholders, you will provide architectural leadership across complex programs, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with strategic objectives.

About The Role

As a Senior Salesforce Solution Architect, you will lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions, helping clients transform business processes and maximise the value of their Salesforce investment. Acting as a trusted advisor to both business and technology stakeholders, you will provide architectural leadership across complex programs, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with strategic objectives.

What You'll Be Doing

Architecture & Solution Leadership

• Lead architecture workshops and technical discovery sessions with clients.
• Design end-to-end Salesforce solutions that align business objectives with platform best practices.
• Develop solution architectures, integration strategies, data models, security frameworks, and implementation roadmaps.
• Ensure solution designs balance scalability, maintainability, usability, and commercial outcomes.
• Provide governance and architectural oversight throughout the project lifecycle.

Salesforce Platform Expertise

• Architect solutions across the Salesforce ecosystem including CRM, customer engagement, automation, analytics, integration, AI-enabled capabilities, and platform services.
• Define architectural standards, design patterns, and development best practices.
• Drive platform adoption and long-term solution sustainability.
• Stay current with Salesforce product innovations, release cycles, industry trends, and ecosystem technologies.

Delivery

• Collaborate closely with Functional Consultants, Project Managers, Developers, and client stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.
• Review technical designs and ensure alignment with business and functional requirements.
• Guide complex integration, automation, data migration, and transformation initiatives.
• Support proof-of-concepts, solution demonstrations, and technical governance activities.
• Contribute to estimation, project planning, and risk management activities.

Client Advisory & Presales

• Act as a trusted advisor to executive, business, and technology stakeholders.
• Support pre-sales activities including solution shaping, proposals, bid responses, and client presentations.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes and strategic recommendations.

Leadership & Mentoring

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring across the Salesforce practice.
• Support the development of consultants, developers, and emerging architects.
• Participate in capability development, recruitment, and community initiatives.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of Salesforce consulting experience, including significant experience in solution architecture and enterprise delivery.
• Proven success designing and delivering complex Salesforce transformation programs.
• Deep understanding of Salesforce platform architecture, integration frameworks, security models, automation, data strategy, and governance.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
• Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently from technical teams through to executive leadership.
• Salesforce certifications aligned to architecture, platform, integration, or application design disciplines.
• Experience defining solution roadmaps and target-state architecture for enterprise clients.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to contribute to business development and growth initiatives.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and problem-solving capabilities.