Salesforce Technical Architect

London Source: WhatJobs

£90,000–£130,000

Salesforce Technical Architect

As Salesforce Technical Architect, you will provide technical leadership across the Salesforce ecosystem, reviewing and enhancing the current architecture while ensuring the platform remains stable, scalable, maintainable, and fit for future growth.

You will evaluate existing custom Apex code, Lightning Components, Flows, integrations, and platform configurations to identify architectural weaknesses, technical debt, and opportunities for optimisation. Working closely with development and business teams, you will determine what should be retained, standardised, refactored, or retired, creating a pragmatic target-state architecture and phased improvement plan.

The role will also focus on improving software engineering practices, including source control, environments, release management, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment processes. A key objective is to enable smaller, safer, and more predictable releases whilst maintaining platform reliability and supporting ongoing business delivery.

This is not a purely strategic architecture position. You will remain hands-on, capable of prototyping solutions, validating architectural decisions, and supporting complex technical challenges while maintaining overarching ownership of the platform's direction.

Key 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 Skills & Experience

Essential

Extensive experience as a Salesforce Technical Architect or Lead Salesforce Architect
Deep knowledge of Salesforce platform architecture and best practices
Strong hands-on development experience with:
Apex
Lightning Web Components (LWC)
Salesforce Flows
Salesforce APIs and integrations
Experience working within complex, heavily customised Salesforce environments
Proven 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
Release management processes
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Ability to balance architectural leadership with hands-on technical delivery

Desirable

Salesforce Technical Architect Certification (CTA) or equivalent architect-level certifications
Experience working 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

Salesforce Technical Architect

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