Senior Salesforce Platform Architect – Financial Services

Schroders; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Schroders is seeking an experienced Salesforce Platform Architect to own the architecture, integrity and technical direction of large-scale Salesforce implementations within global financial services. The role combines deep technical mastery of the Salesforce platform with holistic thinking across technology, data and operating model, and requires the credibility to influence senior stakeholders.

Based in London, you will define the target-state architecture for the Salesforce ecosystem, set the

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Salesforce experience within a large, global financial services organisation.
• Salesforce CTA and Architect certifications.
• Ability to shape solution direction across technology, data and operating model.
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tooling and governance.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the end-to-end target-state architecture for the Salesforce platform across both Public and Private businesses, balancing business value, scalability, security, maintainability and total cost of ownership.
• Define architectural principles, patterns, standards and guardrails that engineering teams design and build within, ensuring solution coherence across a multi-team portfolio.
• Lead solution design for complex and early-stage initiatives, translating ambiguous business problems into robust architectural direction with clear options and trade-offs.
• Own the integration architecture connecting Salesforce with upstream and downstream platforms (APIs, event-driven patterns, MuleSoft) to enable joined-up client journeys and high-quality data.
• Govern platform integrity—data model, security model, governor limits, org strategy, technical debt and release management.
• Provide architectural assurance across delivery teams through design reviews and governance forums.

Skills

Salesforce Platform Architecture

Stakeholder management

Cloud integration patterns

DevOps & CI/CD

API design (REST/SOAP)

Education

Salesforce CTA

Salesforce Application Architect

Salesforce System Architect

Platform Developer I/II

Tools

MuleSoft

Git

Copado

Gearset

Azure DevOps

Seismic

Job description

Schroders is seeking an experienced Salesforce Platform Architect to own the architecture, integrity and technical direction of large-scale Salesforce implementations within global financial services. The role combines deep technical mastery of the Salesforce platform with holistic thinking across technology, data and operating model, and requires the credibility to influence senior stakeholders.

Based in London, you will define the target-state architecture for the Salesforce ecosystem, set the