Salesforce Technical Architect – 11883HS

London Source: WhatJobs

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Overview

As a Salesforce Technical Architect, you will lead the technical direction of a complex Salesforce platform, ensuring stability, scalability, and future-ready growth. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to modernize solutions, reduce technical debt, and define a pragmatic target-state architecture and roadmap. You will remain hands-on to prototype and validate decisions while guiding governance, release management, and DevOps improvements. This role offers significant impact by shaping how the platform supports ongoing business delivery and rapid, safer releases.

Responsibilities

Own the technical architecture of a complex Salesforce platform
Assess and modernise existing Salesforce solutions and custom developments
Define and deliver a long-term architectural roadmap
Identify and address technical debt and platform risks
Improve platform stability, scalability, maintainability, and observability
Lead architecture reviews and technical governance activities
Drive improvements across CI/CD, release management, testing, and development standards
Mentor and provide technical leadership to development teams
Collaborate with stakeholders to balance immediate business needs with long-term platform health
Support the transition towards more frequent, lower-risk software releases

Key requirements

Extensive experience as a Salesforce Technical Architect or Lead Salesforce Architect
Deep knowledge of Salesforce platform architecture and best practices
Hands-on development experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Salesforce Flows, Salesforce APIs and integrations
Experience in complex, heavily customised Salesforce environments
Ability to assess and modernise legacy or brownfield Salesforce implementations
Strong understanding of Salesforce security, data modelling, and governance
Experience designing and implementing enterprise integration solutions
Knowledge of DevOps practices including Git-based source control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and release management
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Ability to balance architectural leadership with hands-on technical delivery
Salesforce Technical Architect Certification (CTA) or equivalent architect-level certifications
Experience with managed packages in large Salesforce implementations
Exposure to observability, monitoring, and platform performance optimisation
Experience driving agile transformation and engineering best practices
Knowledge of enterprise architecture principles and governance frameworks