Platform Architect

La Fosse; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the housebuilding industry is looking for a Platform Architect with extensive Salesforce experience for a greenfield deployment program. The role involves managing vendor relationships, overseeing platform design, and ensuring alignment with business strategies. The ideal candidate will engage effectively with stakeholders and have a strong background in Salesforce technologies and architecture frameworks.

Qualifications

• Extensive Salesforce experience and knowledge of the platform technology stack.
• Experience in greenfield Salesforce implementations and working with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to present complex technical subjects in an understandable manner.

Responsibilities

• Manage the relationship with the 3rd party vendor and ensure alignment with company standards.
• Develop and own the platform architecture and associated roadmap.
• Guide platform engineers and developers in delivery of platform features.

Skills

Salesforce

Architecture frameworks

Agile methodologies

Strong soft skills

Education

TOGAF certification

Salesforce certification

ITIL certification

Tools

Confluence

Jira

GitHub

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Location- London – Remote/hybrid (travel to London 2x a month)

The role:

Our client, a leading company in the housebuilding industry, is seeking a Platform Architect with extensive Salesforce experience to work on a greenfield Salesforce deployment programme, working alongside a 3rd party vendor who is delivering the solution.

The Platform Architect will be expected to manage the relationship with the 3rd party vendor, as well as govern and guide them to ensure alignment with the company’s standards and vision; and to own and oversee the design to ensure successful and sustainable delivery.

The Platform Architect owns end to end accountability for the technology direction of the platform ensuring it meets the needs of the business and Digital Product teams utilising platform capabilities.

This role will be aligned to the Salesforce platform covering platform capabilities such as:

• SalesCloud CRM
• Experience Cloud
• Data Cloud
• AppExchange integrations such as Conga (document generation)

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Platform/Product Owner(s) in end-to-end ownership of the platform.
• Develop and own the platform architecture and associated roadmap aligned to business strategies and requirements.
• Provide architectural and design assurance and governance for all platform changes
• Ensure non-functional needs are specified and met by the platform throughout its lifecycle.
• Guide platform engineers and developers (internal and from 3rd party vendors) in delivery of platform features and functionality.
• Ensure integrations with the platform are designed, delivered and documented to enterprise best practice.
• Document and control platform technical debt
• Guide on platform capabilities, products and change delivery impacts to wider technical and business stakeholders.
• Ensure platform documentation is developed and maintained to a high quality.
• Suggest innovative ideas and solutions (and champions ideas from others) that could be delivered on the platform

Experience:

• Extensive experience within the platform technology stack (Salesforce)
• Strong soft skills, able to operate effectively at Enterprise level.
• Experience in greenfield Salesforce implementations.
• Ability to act as a Programme Architect and support customer engagement as needed.
• Familiarity with Salesforce Trailhead and certifications is essential.
• Has driven change and improved ways of working
• Ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, adjusting language and tone to the audience.
• Commitment to quality, open documentation to aid team collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Can effectively lead and influence teams and team members.
• Can present complex technical subject matter in a simple and understandable manner
• Experience working within and promoting Product Management and Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Experience of modern work management and documentation tools such as Confluence, Jira, GitHub.

Qualifications:

• Certified in Architecture frameworks desirable (i.e. TOGAF, Archimate)
• Certifications in the platform technology (i.e. Salesforce certified)
• Exposure to ITIL Framework and processes in corporate IT environment essential, certification in ITIL Framework desirable.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Construction and Building Construction

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