Lead Salesforce Architect

JR United Kingdom; Slough; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy seeks a Lead Salesforce Architect to drive digital transformations for major clients. This role involves strategic leadership, architectural design, and team mentoring with a focus on Salesforce ecosystems. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in consulting and a proactive mindset, ready to influence high-profile projects.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in architecture and consulting, including 8+ years with Salesforce.
• End-to-end delivery experience on major Salesforce programmes.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural decision-making across Salesforce clouds.
• Translate business requirements into scalable Salesforce solutions.
• Identify risks and gaps in current or target architectures.

Skills

Salesforce

Architectural Design

Integration Technologies

Cloud Platforms

Education

Agile or SAFe Certification

Job description

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We are seeking a Lead Salesforce Architect to join one of the world’s leading consultancies, renowned for helping public and private sector organisations deliver digital transformation at scale. With a strong presence globally and a deep heritage in IT services, consulting, cloud, and infrastructure solutions, this company provides a collaborative and innovative environment where architects are empowered to shape complex solutions for high-profile clients.

This is a rare opportunity to step into a Lead Salesforce Architect role that blends strategic leadership with hands-on architectural design, solution governance, and team mentoring across large, enterprise-grade programmes. The role offers significant scope to influence digital strategy for major customers while working across the latest Salesforce ecosystem and enterprise technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across some of the firm’s most 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.

Experience Required:

• 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.
• Previous experience large-scale programmes or technology consulting environments.
• Knowledge of broader enterprise systems (ERP, HRIS, CMS) and their integration with CRM.
• Agile or SAFe certification.

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.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and are committed to accommodating reasonable adjustments throughout the hiring process.