Lead Solutions Architect

dentsuaegis; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

dentsuaegis is seeking a Lead Salesforce Solution Architect in Ireland to deliver senior technical leadership across Salesforce engagements. You will design scalable, secure architectures, guide delivery teams and promote best practices while collaborating with clients and internal stakeholders.

The role requires strong experience in LWC, Apex, and integrations, with a track record of guiding complex Salesforce deployments from design through deployment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years delivering enterprise Salesforce solutions, including senior technical roles.
• Strong experience leading architecture and technical delivery of complex Salesforce implementations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and oversee secure, robust and scalable Salesforce architectures across multiple client engagements.
• Lead design workshops to translate business requirements into effective Salesforce solutions.
• Provide architectural guidance and technical oversight across projects and teams.
• Ensure adherence to Salesforce best practices, standards and security guidelines.
• Oversee development, integrations, CI/CD, testing and deployment activities.
• Mentor Architects, Tech Leads and Developers, fostering technical excellence.
• Support presales, discovery and solution shaping for new client opportunities.

Skills

Salesforce

Solution Architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder Mgmt

LWC

Apex

Integrations

Project Delivery

Tools

LWC

Apex

Flow

CI/CD

Data Migration

Job description

Job Description:

Purpose :

The Lead Solution Architect is responsible for providing senior technical and architectural leadership across the Salesforce practice, designing and overseeing comprehensive Salesforce solutions that align with client goals and technical requirements.

The role provides strategic technical guidance across client engagements, ensuring scalable, secure and high-quality architecture while supporting the development of technical standards, capability and best practices across the wider team.

Working closely with clients, delivery teams and practice leadership, the Lead Solution Architect translates complex business requirements into effective technical solutions, provides technical oversight across projects and supports the continued development of Architects, Technical Leads and Developers within the organisation.

Role Description:

Designing and overseeing secure, robust and scalable technical architectures and Salesforce solutions while working with multiple client and internal stakeholders. Leading design workshops to understand business processes and recommend solutions that meet client needs.

Act as a senior technical authority across Salesforce engagements, providing architectural guidance, technical assurance and escalation support across complex or strategically important projects.

Ensure technical quality and strong Salesforce solution design principles are followed, leveraging deep technical expertise to advise teams and clients on architecture, development and platform best practices.

Lead and support technical delivery teams throughout the project lifecycle, working with Delivery Directors and Tech Leads to ensure agreed Salesforce solutions are delivered within scope, quality and time expectations.

Create and oversee the breakdown of Salesforce solutions into requirements, estimates and technical dependencies, supporting project planning and delivery activities.

Provide technical oversight across development, integrations, CI/CD, testing, deployment and defect resolution, ensuring appropriate engineering and Salesforce standards are maintained.

Perform and oversee architecture, solution and code reviews to ensure quality, maintainability and adherence to agreed technical standards.

Define, promote and continuously improve technical standards, development practices, architectural patterns and ways of working across the Salesforce practice.

Support technical resource and capability planning, identifying skills gaps and helping ensure projects have the appropriate level of technical leadership and expertise.

Provide technical leadership during presales, discovery and solution-shaping activities, supporting estimates, solution approaches and technical responses for new and existing client opportunities.

Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients and internal stakeholders, supporting complex technical decisions, platform strategy and Salesforce roadmap discussions.

Support the evaluation and adoption of new Salesforce technologies and capabilities, contributing to the longer-term technical direction of the practice.

Manage and mentor members of the technical team, including Architects, Technical Leads and Developers, providing coaching, feedback, performance support and career development.

Support recruitment, progression and succession planning across the technical team, helping to build and maintain strong technical capability within the organisation.

Foster a positive, collaborative and high-performance technical culture focused on quality, accountability, continuous improvement and professional development.

Manage the technical handover of projects with customers, Managed Services and other internal teams, ensuring appropriate documentation and knowledge transfer are completed.

Collaborate with clients, project teams and senior leadership from a technical perspective across Salesforce solutions and a range of industries.

Desired Skills:

• Minimum of 7+ years' experience delivering enterprise Salesforce solutions, including significant experience operating as a Solution Architect or equivalent senior technical role.
• Strong experience leading the architecture and technical delivery of complex Salesforce implementations.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong background across Salesforce platforms and cloud solutions, with in-depth knowledge of Salesforce architecture, development best practices and project delivery methodologies.
• Significant experience leading technical teams throughout the software development lifecycle and providing technical oversight across multiple projects.
• Experience designing custom Salesforce functionality using technologies including LWC, Apex, triggers, Flow, asynchronous processing and data migration approaches.
• Experience designing integrations between Salesforce and other systems