Technical Architect
Posted 3 days ago by Avance Consulting
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Salesforce Solutions Architect is responsible for providing architectural leadership within an Agile Scrum team, focusing on delivering scalable and high-quality solutions on the Salesforce platform. This role involves close collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure business requirements are met and aligned with Salesforce best practices. The architect is tasked with translating business needs into sustainable solutions while maximizing the use of native platform capabilities. The position is a fixed-term contract based in London with a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary technical authority for Salesforce solutions within the Scrum team
- Collaborate with Product Owners and Business Analysts during backlog refinement to assess feasibility, define user stories, and identify risks
- Support sprint planning with architectural input on design, complexity, and delivery approach
- Guide developers during sprints to ensure alignment with architecture and best practices
- Design scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions across Sales Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Salesforce Platform
- Define architecture patterns for data modelling, automation, integration strategies, and security models
- Produce key architecture artefacts such as solution diagrams, data models, and integration designs
- Provide clear technical guidance to developers and administrators
- Advise on Salesforce capabilities and recommend optimal solutions
- Prioritise out-of-the-box and declarative solutions over custom development
- Guide the use of Flow, Apex, Lightning Web Components, Platform Events, and Salesforce APIs
- Ensure compliance with platform limits, performance standards, and best practices
- Design and validate integration patterns using REST/SOAP APIs, Platform Events, and middleware tools
- Ensure data flows, ownership, and synchronisation models are well defined and scalable
- Ensure alignment with organisational architecture and governance standards
- Conduct design reviews to maintain quality, scalability, and maintainability
- Identify and mitigate technical risks early
- Promote strong documentation, testing, and delivery standards
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders
- Translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Provide balanced recommendations considering business value and technical feasibility
Key Skills:
- Strong experience with Sales Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Salesforce Platform
- Hands-on knowledge of Flow and declarative automation
- Apex development and Lightning Web Components expertise
- Experience designing scalable solutions within Salesforce governor limits
- Strong understanding of API-led and event-driven architectures
- Experience with REST/SOAP APIs and middleware platforms (e.g., MuleSoft)
- Solid knowledge of Salesforce data architecture
- Experience working in Agile Scrum environments
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Salesforce Certified Application Architect or System Architect preferred
- Additional certifications such as Platform Developer, Integration Architecture Designer, and Data Architecture Designer
- Experience with large-scale Salesforce transformations or complex integrations
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Salesforce Architect London, UK (Hybrid Work) Fixed Term Contract (12 Months)
Job Description:
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Role Purpose
The Salesforce Solutions Architect provides architectural leadership within an Agile Scrum team, delivering scalable and high-quality solutions on the Salesforce platform. Working closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and stakeholders, this role ensures that business requirements are technically feasible, clearly defined, and aligned with Salesforce best practices. The architect translates business needs into sustainable, scalable solutions while maximising the use of native platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architecture & Scrum Collaboration
- Act as the primary technical authority for Salesforce solutions within the Scrum team
- Collaborate with Product Owners and Business Analysts during backlog refinement to assess feasibility, define user stories, and identify risks
- Support sprint planning with architectural input on design, complexity, and delivery approach
- Guide developers during sprints to ensure alignment with architecture and best practices
- Solution Design & Technical Leadership
- Design scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions across: Sales Cloud Experience Cloud Salesforce Platform
- Define architecture patterns for: Data modelling Automation (Flow vs Apex) Integration strategies Security and access models
- Produce key architecture artefacts such as solution diagrams, data models, and integration designs
- Provide clear technical guidance to developers and administrators
- Platform Expertise
- Advise on Salesforce capabilities and recommend optimal solutions
- Prioritise out-of-the-box and declarative solutions over custom development
- Guide the use of: Flow Apex Lightning Web Components Platform Events Salesforce APIs
- Ensure compliance with platform limits, performance standards, and best practices
- Integration & Ecosystem Alignment
- Design and validate integration patterns using: REST/SOAP APIs Platform Events Change Data Capture Middleware tools such as MuleSoft
- Ensure data flows, ownership, and synchronisation models are well defined and scalable
- Governance & Quality Assurance
- Ensure alignment with organisational architecture and governance standards
- Conduct design reviews to maintain quality, scalability, and maintainability
- Identify and mitigate technical risks early
- Promote strong documentation, testing, and delivery standards
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders
- Translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Provide balanced recommendations considering business value and technical feasibility
Required Skills & Experience:
- Salesforce Expertise
- Strong experience with: Sales Cloud Experience Cloud Salesforce Platform
- Hands-on knowledge of Flow and declarative automation
- Apex development Lightning Web Components Data modelling
- Experience designing scalable solutions within Salesforce governor limits
- Integration & Architecture
- Strong understanding of API-led and event-driven architectures
- Experience with REST/SOAP APIs and middleware platforms (e.g., MuleSoft)
- Solid knowledge of Salesforce data architecture
- Agile Delivery
- Experience working in Agile Scrum environments
- Ability to support backlog refinement, sprint planning, and user story definition
- Leadership & Communication
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Salesforce Certified Application Architect or System Architect
- Additional certifications such as: Platform Developer Integration Architecture Designer Data Architecture Designer
- Experience with large-scale Salesforce transformations or complex integrations
Success Measures
- Delivery of scalable, secure, and maintainable Salesforce solutions
- Strong alignment with Salesforce best practices and architecture standards
- Effective collaboration across product, engineering, and business teams
- Reduced technical risk and improved platform sustainability