Salesforce Lead Enterprise Architect

NTT DATA; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology solutions company is seeking a Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architect in London to work collaboratively with top-tier clients across industries. The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience in consulting and architecture, providing strategic insights on Salesforce platforms. Responsibilities include guiding project implementation, optimizing business processes, and mentoring diverse teams. This role also emphasizes fostering a collaborative environment and ensuring customer satisfaction, making it integral to the company's continuous growth.

Benefits

Flexible work options

Learning and Development opportunities

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in consulting and architecture with demonstrated leadership.
• 8+ years experience with key areas of Salesforce and integration technologies.
• Ability to analyse, design, and optimize business processes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to key stakeholders in enterprise customers.
• Guide evaluation of business and technical requirements for Salesforce solutions.
• Direct and mentor diverse teams in technical delivery aspects.

Skills

Salesforce Sales

Salesforce Service

Enterprise Architecture

Agile Methods

Data Cloud

Job description

The team you'll be working with :

As part of our continuous growth, we are looking for a Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architect to join our Enterprise & Cloud Solutions department in London working with a client within different Industry sectors.

Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architects serve as strategic advisors and Salesforce product and platform guides to the company’s largest enterprise customers. They typically engage at Executive-level and drive conversations with our customer’s enterprise architects and business users equipped with standard methodologies for enterprise architecture functions such as security, performance, development process, and application governance.

What you’ll be doing :

• Be a trusted advisor to key stakeholders in our most strategic enterprise customers
• Ensure scalable and standard methodology solutions to meet and exceed customer needs
• Guide the evaluation of business and technical requirements. Translates business requirements into well designed solutions that best leverage the Salesforce platforms and products.
• Identify and confirm Solution and Business design risks, and develop mitigating approaches
• Build relationships with key collaborators and team members
• Act as lead architect for the overall engagement by coordinating and aligning work of multiple architects on the team
• Align with project and engagement managers to support planning and implementation in close collaboration with the customer
• Review and guide project vision and direction, implementation approach and key artefacts
• Direct early solution evaluation, including proactive management of issues and effective engagement with executives, the account team, engineering, and product management
• Direct and mentor diverse teams, such as customers, partners, and colleagues in technical delivery aspects, as well as non-technical topics such as communication strategies or executive influence
• Fuel our internal growth by identifying, leading or contributing to internal initiatives, such as innovations, building up a strategic brand, and nurturing teammates' skills by sharing knowledge.
• Work with Pre-Sales team to create a proposal covering Target and transition architecture, Security, Compliance, integration, data migration and implementation plan.

What you’ll bring :

• 12+ years of experience as a consulting and Architect with demonstrated leadership driving a digital transformation in a matrixed organization
• 8+ years’ experience with key areas of enterprise architecture including Salesforce Sales, Service, Commerce, and Data Cloud, Integration Technologies, Master Data Management, and other Clouds like AWS.
• Ability to analyse, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration
• Experience in guiding customers and project members in rationalizing and deploying emerging technology for business use cases
• Experience working on Salesforce implementation projects with end-to-end implementation experience with the Salesforce platform from a solution perspective. Direct salesforce development experience preferred.
• Ability to define the system design to identify gaps between current and desired end‑states
• Proven ability to design and optimise business processes and define solutions that support this by leveraging the Salesforce platforms and products in the best way
• Rapidly learn new technologies as well as strong presentation, communication and facilitation skills
• Preferred to good knowledge of Salesforce app exchange products and their implementation
• Knowledge of options and how to handle security requirements such as single sign on and data security
• Ability to lead design sessions and communicate design options to clients
• Extensive experience in Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methods

Preferred Requirements

• Experience as a Senior Architect and / or CIO / CTO in a mid to large sized organization with leadership driving an organizational transformation in a matrixed organization - A very big plus
• Experience of defining and delivering enterprise applications on the Salesforce Platform including coded solutions - A very big plus
• Salesforce Industries and Salesforce Certifications - A very big plus
• A detailed understanding of Web Services, Data Modeling, and Enterprise application integration concepts, including experience with enterprise integration tools (ESBs and / or ETL tools), and common integration design patterns with enterprise systems (e.g. CMS, ERP, HRIS, DWH / DM)
• Agile Methodology certification such as Scaled Agile Framework.

Who we are :

We’re a business with a global reach that empowers local teams, and we undertake hugely exciting work that is genuinely changing the world. Our advanced portfolio of consulting, applications, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services will allow you to achieve great things by working with brilliant colleagues, and clients, on exciting projects.

Our inclusive work environment prioritises mutual respect, accountability, and continuous learning for all our people. This approach fosters collaboration, well‑being, growth, and agility, leading to a more diverse, innovative, and competitive organisation. We are also proud to share that we have a range of Inclusion Networks such as : the Women’s Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ+ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network and the Parent Network.

For more information on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion please click here : Creating Inclusion Together at NTT DATA UK | NTT DATA

what we’ll offer you :

We offer a range of tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Our Learning and Development team ensure that there are continuous growth and development opportunities for our people. We also offer the opportunity to have flexible work options.

For more information on NTT DATA UK & Ireland please click here : NTT DATA

We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in the fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting equity and diversity in our employment practices. We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer - we want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application and interview process, if you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we look forward to hearing from you.