Lead Solutions Architect

Purpose:

The Lead Solution Architect is responsible for providing senior technical and architectural leadership across the Salesforce practice, designing and overseeing comprehensive Salesforce solutions that align with client goals and technical requirements. 

The role provides strategic technical guidance across client engagements, ensuring scalable, secure and high-quality architecture while supporting the development of technical standards, capability and best practices across the wider team. 

Working closely with clients, delivery teams and practice leadership, the Lead Solution Architect translates complex business requirements into effective technical solutions, provides technical oversight across projects and supports the continued development of Architects, Technical Leads and Developers within the organisation. 

Role Description:

• Designing and overseeing secure, robust and scalable technical architectures and Salesforce solutions while working with multiple client and internal stakeholders. Leading design workshops to understand business processes and recommend solutions that meet client needs. 

• Act as a senior technical authority across Salesforce engagements, providing architectural guidance, technical assurance and escalation support across complex or strategically important projects. 

• Ensure technical quality and strong Salesforce solution design principles are followed, leveraging deep technical expertise to advise teams and clients on architecture, development and platform best practices. 

• Lead and support technical delivery teams throughout the project lifecycle, working with Delivery Directors and Tech Leads to ensure agreed Salesforce solutions are delivered within scope, quality and time expectations. 

• Create and oversee the breakdown of Salesforce solutions into requirements, estimates and technical dependencies, supporting project planning and delivery activities. 

• Provide technical oversight across development, integrations, CI/CD, testing, deployment and defect resolution, ensuring appropriate engineering and Salesforce standards are maintained. 

• Perform and oversee architecture, solution and code reviews to ensure quality, maintainability and adherence to agreed technical standards. 

• Define, promote and continuously improve technical standards, development practices, architectural patterns and ways of working across the Salesforce practice. 

• Support techn