Solutions Architect Lead

About The Role:

As a Senior Salesforce Solution Architect, you will lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions, helping clients transform business processes and maximise the value of their Salesforce investment. Acting as a trusted advisor to both business and technology stakeholders, you will provide architectural leadership across complex programs, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with strategic objectives.

What You'll Be Doing:

Architecture & Solution Leadership

- Lead architecture workshops and technical discovery sessions with clients.
- Design end-to-end Salesforce solutions that align business objectives with platform best practices.
- Develop solution architectures, integration strategies, data models, security frameworks, and implementation roadmaps.
- Ensure solution designs balance scalability, maintainability, usability, and commercial outcomes.
- Provide governance and architectural oversight throughout the project lifecycle.

Salesforce Platform Expertise:

- Architect solutions across the Salesforce ecosystem including CRM, customer engagement, automation, analytics, integration, AI-enabled capabilities, and platform services.
- Define architectural standards, design patterns, and development best practices.
- Drive platform adoption and long-term solution sustainability.
- Stay current with Salesforce product innovations, release cycles, industry trends, and ecosystem technologies.

Delivery:

- Collaborate closely with Functional Consultants, Project Managers, Developers, and client stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.
- Review technical designs and ensure alignment with business and functional requirements.
- Guide complex integration, automation, data migration, and transformation initiatives.
- Support proof-of-concepts, solution demonstrations, and technical governance activities.
- Contribute to estimation, project planning, and risk management activities.

Client Advisory & Presales:

- Act as a trusted advisor to executive, business, and technology stakeholders.
- Support pre-sales activities including solution shaping, proposals, bid responses, and client presentations.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes and strategic recommendations.

Leadership & Mentoring:

- Provide technical leadership and mentoring across the Salesforce practice.
- Support the development of consultants, developers, and emerging architects.
- Participate in capability development, recruitment, and community initiatives.

What We're Looking For:

- 7+ years of Salesforce consulting experience, including significant experience in solution architecture and enterprise delivery.
- Proven success designing and delivering complex Salesforce transformation programs.
- Deep understanding of Salesforce platform architecture, integration frameworks, security models, automation, data strategy, and governance.
- Experience leading architecture across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
- Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently from technical teams through to executive leadership.
- Salesforce certifications aligned to architecture, platform, integration, or application design disciplines.
- Experience defining solution roadmaps and target-state architecture for enterprise clients.
- Strong commercial awareness and ability to contribute to business development and growth initiatives.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and problem-solving capabilities.