Senior Salesforce Architect | Hybrid | Work From Anywhere

Economist-Group-; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Private health insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Work From Anywhere program

Job summary

The Economist Group is seeking a Distinguished Salesforce Engineer to shape technical direction and mature the Salesforce platform. This senior individual-contributor role reports to the Head of Salesforce Engineering and drives architectural decisions across multiple clouds and enterprise integrations.

You will mentor senior engineers, influence technical strategy beyond a single team, and lead design reviews while upholding engineering standards and governance across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering/architecture with Salesforce core platforms.
• Proven track record architecting large-scale, multi-cloud or multi-system enterprise solutions.
• Deep expertise in enterprise integration patterns, event-driven architecture, data modeling and platform governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the long-term technical architecture strategy for Salesforce and its integration with enterprise systems.
• Identify and resolve systemic technical risks, platform limitations, and scalability challenges.
• Elevate engineering standards, design principles, and governance frameworks across teams and domains.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex Salesforce architecture decisions.
• Lead architecture of large initiatives spanning multiple clouds and non-Salesforce systems.
• Evaluate and make build-vs-buy decisions with organization-wide impact.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers and architects across the organization.

Skills

Salesforce expertise

Multi-cloud architecture

Enterprise integration

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Tools

Apex

APIs

Data Cloud

Job description

The Economist Group is seeking a Distinguished Salesforce Engineer to shape technical direction and mature the Salesforce platform. This senior individual-contributor role reports to the Head of Salesforce Engineering and drives architectural decisions across multiple clouds and enterprise integrations.

You will mentor senior engineers, influence technical strategy beyond a single team, and lead design reviews while upholding engineering standards and governance across the organisation.