Salesforce Solution Architect

ZipRecruiter; Dunfermline; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in the UK is seeking a motivated Salesforce Solutions Architect. This role involves partnering with product teams, driving best practices, and managing technical changes in the Salesforce platform. Candidates should have deep knowledge of Salesforce and related technologies. The position offers a hybrid work model, competitive rewards, and a dynamic work environment focused on innovation.

Benefits

Sky Q

Pension package

Private healthcare

Discounted mobile and broadband

Sky VIP rewards

Qualifications

• Extensive expertise with Salesforce products and platforms.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD workflows and version control.
• Experience in working with hybrid teams in agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver tailored solutions across the Salesforce Ecosystem.
• Drive community support for Salesforce Technical Designers.
• Manage and train Salesforce developers and architects.

Skills

Salesforce Digital Commerce expertise

Cloud & application architecture

Knowledge of industry CPQ offerings

DevOps processes and CI/CD

OO design patterns

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Vlocity Build tool

SonarQube

Job description

Overview

Are you a motivated Salesforce Solutions Architect who is passionate about Cloud and application architecture? Do you have expert knowledge of Salesforce products and are you looking to get involved at the onset of a new platform and have the chance to really make an impact?

What you'll do

• Partner with product owners and solutions architecture to deliver tailored solutions across the Salesforce Ecosystem to support and realise business requirements. (Sales, Service, Communications, Experience and Marketing Clouds)
• Drive adoption of best practices and support a community of Salesforce Technical Designers across a wide range of initiatives to support business growth, adoption and exploitation of the Salesforce platform.
• Employ robust engineering principles and practices across the design, development and delivery of changes to the Salesforce platform, working across a number of Communities of Practice to foster a culture of continuous improvement, and define and implement best practices across the Salesforce ecosystem.
• Perform technical analysis, design and support the implementation of changes to the Salesforce platform, following best practices, leveraging out-of-the-box capabilities and customisation when necessary.
• Contribute to improvement of DevOps processes, Ways of Working and tools including scrum, user support, platform security, quality, version control and CI/CD.
• Work with domain and cross-functional agile teams to support and enhance features in CPQ, EPC, CLM and OM to support Salesforce application offerings in iterative release cycles.
• Manage and train a team of Salesforce developers and architects to build solutions using Visualforce, Lightning, APEX, APIs, and Comms Cloud components including OmniScripts, Data Raptors, Omnistudio Cards, Omnistudio Product Designer, Omnistudio Pricing Designer and Integration Procedures.

What you'll bring

• Extensive and in-depth experience of the Salesforce Digital Commerce platform and business processes including Comms Cloud (Vlocity, CPQ, EPC, OM, CLM), Sales, Service, Experience and Marketing Clouds, ideally in a Communications environment.
• Experience in design and development across the Salesforce platform including OmniScripts, Data Raptors, Omnistudio (Cards, Product Designer, Pricing Designer), Digital Commerce (including Cart based APIs), Lightning Web Components, Apex, Triggers, SOQL/SOSL, Flows, Integration Procedures, Orchestration Plans and Event Driven integrations with external systems using SOAP, REST, BULK, Platform events and Streaming APIs.
• Experience of Salesforce core and Comms Cloud performance considerations and knowledge/techniques to avoid performance degradation.
• Good knowledge of industry CPQ offerings such as Assetization, Product lifecycle management, Digital Commerce/Cart based APIs and external APIs.
• Experience in building complex, scalable and high-performance software systems, including object modelling and OO design patterns; knowledge of TOGAF principles would be advantageous.
• Experience with Version Control Systems and CI/CD workflows (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) using Vlocity Build tool (CLI) or Vlocity IDX tool and SFDX. Knowledge of using SonarQube or other static code analysis tools and ELK or Splunk for log analysis would be beneficial.

Team overview

UK&I Technology – Ground-breaking projects. Innovative tech. Top innovation. Join our UK&I Technology team and you'll work across technology projects that drive our TV, broadband, mobile and Sky Connect services. You'll be at the heart of delivering the technology roadmaps that support our UK and Ireland businesses, with a focus on customer innovations for Sky Glass. You'll also design, develop and deliver digital services for millions of customers across the UK.

The rewards

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here's a taster:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work

We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.

Your office space

Livingston Watermark House. Our lively campus is a short distance from Livingston South train station with onsite parking. You'll be well fed at our subsidised canteen, and you can keep in shape at our onsite gym, or enjoy pool/table tennis.

We'd love to hear from you

Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It's a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next. If you believe in better, we'll back you all the way.

Important notice

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. Depending on the role and the nature of any convictions, we may need to withdraw the offer.