Salesforce Technical Architect

Proactive Appointments; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Proactive Appointments is seeking a Salesforce Technical Architect to provide hands-on technical leadership across the Salesforce ecosystem, shaping a pragmatic target-state architecture and phased improvement plan. You will review Apex, Lightning Components, Flows, integrations, and platform configurations to identify weaknesses, technical debt, and opportunities for optimisation.

The role also focuses on improving software engineering practices, including source control, environments, release

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as Salesforce Technical Architect or Lead Salesforce Architect.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce platform architecture and best practices.
• Hands-on development with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows, APIs and integrations.
• Experience in complex, heavily customised Salesforce environments.
• Proven ability to assess and modernise legacy Salesforce implementations.
• Understanding of Salesforce security, data modelling and governance.
• Experience designing enterprise integration solutions and DevOps practices (Git, CI/CD, automated testing, release management).
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to balance architectural leadership with hands-on delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture of a complex Salesforce platform.
• Assess and modernise existing Salesforce solutions and custom developments.
• Define and deliver a long-term architectural roadmap.
• Identify and address technical debt and platform risks.
• Improve platform stability, scalability, maintainability, and observability.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical governance activities.
• Drive improvements across CI/CD, release management, testing, and development standards.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to development teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to balance immediate business needs with long-term platform health.
• Support the transition towards more frequent, lower-risk software releases.

Skills

Salesforce Architecture

Technical Leadership

Hands-on Development

DevOps

CI/CD

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Git-based source control

CI/CD tooling

Automated testing

Job description

Salesforce Technical Architect

As Salesforce Technical Architect, you will provide technical leadership across the Salesforce ecosystem, reviewing and enhancing the current architecture while ensuring the platform remains stable, scalable, maintainable, and fit for future growth.

You will evaluate existing custom Apex code, Lightning Components, Flows, integrations, and platform configurations to identify architectural weaknesses, technical debt, and opportunities for optimisation. Working closely with development and business teams, you will determine what should be retained, standardised, refactored, or retired, creating a pragmatic target-state architecture and phased improvement plan.

The role will also focus on improving software engineering practices, including source control, environments, release management, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment processes. A key objective is to enable smaller, safer, and more predictable releases whilst maintaining platform reliability and supporting ongoing business delivery.

This is not a purely strategic architecture position. You will remain hands‑on, capable of prototyping solutions, validating architectural decisions, and supporting complex technical challenges while maintaining overarching ownership of the platform's direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture of a complex Salesforce platform
• Assess and modernise existing Salesforce solutions and custom developments
• Define and deliver a long‑term architectural roadmap
• Identify and address technical debt and platform risks
• Improve platform stability, scalability, maintainability, and observability
• Lead architecture reviews and technical governance activities
• Drive improvements across CI/CD, release management, testing, and development standards
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to development teams
• Collaborate with stakeholders to balance immediate business needs with long‑term platform health
• Support the transition towards more frequent, lower‑risk software releases

Key Skills & Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience as a Salesforce Technical Architect or Lead Salesforce Architect
• Deep knowledge of Salesforce platform architecture and best practices
• Strong hands‑on development experience with:
  • Apex
  • Lightning Web Components (LWC)
  • Salesforce Flows
  • Salesforce APIs and integrations
• Experience working within complex, heavily customised Salesforce environments
• Proven ability to assess and modernise legacy or brownfield Salesforce implementations
• Strong understanding of Salesforce security, data modelling, and governance
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise integration solutions
• Knowledge of DevOps practices, including:
  • Git-based source control
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Automated testing frameworks
  • Release management processes
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to balance architectural leadership with hands‑on technical delivery

Desirable

• Salesforce Technical Architect Certification (CTA) or equivalent architect-level certifications
• Experience working with managed packages in large Salesforce implementations
• Exposure to observability, monitoring, and platform performance optimisation
• Experience driving agile transformation and engineering best practices
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture principles and governance frameworks

Salesforce Technical Architect