Salesforce Principal Technical Architect
Are you an experienced Salesforce Technical Architect ready for your next big challenge?
This is your opportunity to become the Principal Technical Architect in a brand new Salesforce Practice at a leading European consultancy!
This role offers a unique chance to shape the future of a Salesforce Practice from the ground up, influence its direction, and drive its growth. This is your moment to make a real impact.
As the first hire into this Salesforce Practice, you’ll have a pivotal role in defining technical strategies, building a team, and delivering world-class Salesforce solutions.
This role is perfect for someone who thrives in dynamic environments, enjoys solving complex problems, and wants to leave a lasting legacy.
What You’ll Do:
- Shape the future: Define the business and technology architecture for complex customer solutions and nurture the growth of the Salesforce Practice
- Lead solution design: Oversee the end-to-end design and implementation of Salesforce solutions that balance business needs with an excellent user experience.
- Drive excellence: Contribute to the program and platform Centre of Excellence, offering innovative program/project strategies that leverage the Salesforce platform’s full potential.
- Set best practices: Provide thought leadership and establish and promote best engineering and development practices, from integration and application design to environment management and testing.
- Mentor and grow the team: Lead and mentor diverse teams, fostering a collaborative culture and ensuring the team remains ahead of the latest Salesforce and ecosystem trends.
- Optimise performance: Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring that the systems you design are optimised for scalability and responsiveness.
What We’re Looking For:
- Extensive Salesforce expertise: Deep experience with the Salesforce platform, including strong knowledge of Sales Cloud and Service Cloud. Knowledge of Financial Service Cloud or Health Cloud is also a bonus!
- Development and integration skills: Strong proficiency in Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Components, and experience designing and implementing integrations with third-party systems, utilising APIs, middleware and other integration tools.
- Data management knowledge: Expertise in data architecture, data modelling, and migration strategies, ensuring data integrity and security.
- Security savvy: A deep understanding of Salesforce security best practices and compliance with industry regulations.
- Performance optimisation: Ability to identify performance issues and optimise systems for maximum efficiency.
- Business acumen: A strong understanding of business processes, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions that drive value.
- Thought leadership: Stay ahead of the latest Salesforce trends and innovations, proactively identifying opportunities to improve the platform and solutions.
- Mentorship and training: Proven experience in advising and mentoring teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
Ideal Skills & Experience:
- Strong technical strategy and project ownership experience.
- Proficiency with SQL, SOA design principles, and understanding large code bases.
- Knowledge of UI/UX principles that enhance end-user experiences.
- Experience developing comprehensive technical documentation, including architectural diagrams and solution designs.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a passion for innovation.
- Adaptability: Willingness to evolve with Salesforce’s ever-changing landscape.
- A collaborative mindset with great customer and stakeholder management skills.
Why This Role?
- Unique opportunity to be the first hire in a growing Salesforce practice.
- The chance to influence and build technical capabilities from scratch.
- Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with endless growth potential.
- Be at the cutting edge of Salesforce technologies, from AI to machine learning.
If you're looking to lead, innovate, and make a real impact, this is the role for you!
A highly competitive basic salary is on offer, plus a Flexible Benefits Fund, Car Allowance and benefits such as Private Medical, Contributory Pension and 4 x DIS (a total cash package of c£120k + Benefits).
This is a hybrid role that will require you to split your time between home, office and customer site. You can expect to be in the office 2-3 time per week but this is not a strict rule and is dependent upon projects and client requirements.
Apply today to be part of something extraordinary!
