Salesforce Technical Architect
Salesforce Technical Architect (Hands-On)
Contract
East London (Hybrid)
£400 p/d Outside IR/35 (Negotiable)
We are supporting a leading organisation operating within a highly regulated environment in their search for a hands-on Salesforce Technical Architect to provide architectural leadership across a complex Salesforce platform serving both internal and external users.
This role is explicitly hands-on. It is not a purely advisory or governance-focused position, architecture must be grounded in real, tested solutions, validated through direct implementation.
Role Overview
As the Salesforce Technical Architect, you will be responsible for defining and shaping the target architecture of the platform, ensuring it aligns with business needs, platform strategy, and regulatory constraints.
You will take ownership of architectural decisions from concept through to validation, using hands-on Proofs of Concept (POCs) to test feasibility, performance, and scalability before formalising designs.
A key focus of the role is to support the transition of a heavily customised Salesforce org toward more scalable, maintainable, and Salesforce-native (OOB) capabilities, while maintaining performance and compliance standards.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Design Leadership
- Define end-to-end Salesforce solution architecture across the platform.
- Produce high-quality architecture artefacts, including:
- High-Level Designs (HLDs)& Low-Level Designs (LLDs)
- Data models and data architecture
- Integration and security models
- Present architectural designs and decisions to technical and governance forums.
Hands-On Validation & Proof of Concepts
- Personally design and build POCs to validate architectural approaches.
- Use hands-on experimentation to assess technical feasibility, platform constraints, performance characteristics and Risks and trade-offs.
- Ensure architecture documentation is backed by proven, working solutions.
Governance, Standards & Compliance
- Ensure alignment with client governance, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Define and enforce architectural standards, guardrails, and best practices.
- Review major technical designs, data model changes, and integrations for architectural alignment, downstream system impact and scalability and maintainability.
Collaboration & Delivery Support
- Work closely with Product Owners, Technical Leads, and delivery teams
- Provide hands-on support during complex delivery phases, releases and deployments and remediation activities
- Balance architectural integrity with pragmatic, delivery-focused decision making
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience operating as a Salesforce Technical Architect within enterprise-scale environments
- Extensive hands-on development experience, including Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Salesforce configuration and data modelling
- Deep understanding of:
- Salesforce platform architecture
- Service Cloud and Experience Cloud
- Security, identity, and access control models
- Data model remediation and refactoring
- Proven ability to produce clear, high-quality architecture documentation suitable for governance forums
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working within regulated or audit-heavy environments
Nice to Have
- Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA), or actively working toward CTA
- Experience supporting large-scale Salesforce transformations or remediation programmes
- Industry experience within financial services or the public sector