Salesforce Architect

Salesforce Architect

Location: London (Hybrid)
Contract: Permanent
Level: Senior / Lead

Overview

An established financial services organisation is undergoing a major Salesforce transformation, migrating the endtoend client lifecycle onto Salesforce Financial Services Cloud. We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Architect to provide hands on technical leadership, own platform architecture, and guide delivery through transformation into longterm inhouse ownership.
This role sits at the heart of the Salesforce Centre of Excellence and will shape a scalable, secure and compliant enterprise Salesforce platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end to end Salesforce architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, regulatory expectations and target state client journeys
• Translate complex business and regulatory requirements into scalable, well governed Salesforce solutions
• Provide hands on leadership across Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows and Apex, setting development standards and patterns
• Act as technical authority for Financial Services Cloud data modelling, including Person Accounts, households and relationship structures
• Design and govern integrations using API led and event driven approaches
• Lead technical delivery alongside external partners during transformation, ensuring effective knowledge transfer
• Establish and enforce CI/CD and release management practices (e.g. Copado)
• Mentor and coach Salesforce developers, providing code reviews and technical escalation
• Partner closely with Product and Architecture teams to manage technical risk and delivery roadmaps
• Ensure long term platform reliability, performance and sustainability

Essential Experience & Skills

• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise scale Salesforce solutions
• Strong hands on expertise with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud
• Advanced Salesforce development skills (LWC, Apex, SOQL/SOSL, Flows)
• Experience delivering complex Salesforce integrations (REST/SOAP, middleware)
• Deep understanding of Salesforce security, sharing models and governor limits
• Experience leading development teams or acting as a technical design authority
• Practical experience with CI/CD and release governance
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Salesforce Platform Developer I certification (or equivalent experience)

Desirable

• Experience within financial services, wealth or asset management
• Exposure to OmniStudio (FlexCards, OmniScripts, Integration Procedures)
• Familiarity with Salesforce Data Cloud concepts
• Experience with Marketing Cloud (current or next generation capability)
• Platform Developer II or Financial Services Cloud accreditation

What Success Looks Like

• Delivery of a stable, scalable and compliant Financial Services Cloud platform
• High quality, maintainable architecture with minimal production issues
• Smooth transition from consultancy led delivery to in house ownership
• Reliable, well governed releases with strong test coverage
• A confident development team supported by clear standards and mentoring

Location & Working Model

• London based role with a hybrid working model
• Opportunity to play a pivotal role in a high profile Salesforce transformation