4 days ago
Woking, United Kingdom +6 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and design of enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions from discovery through delivery and operational transition.
- Translate business outcomes and customer journeys into solution designs, roadmaps and delivery priorities.
- Own architecture decisions, outputs, risks, assumptions, dependencies and non-functional requirements.
- Provide governance, review designs and resolve complex technical or cross-platform challenges.
- Guide technical and functional teams through standards, reusable patterns and engineering guardrails.
- Build relationships with senior client stakeholders and communicate complex architectural choices clearly.
- Assess build, buy, reuse and integration options based on value, cost, risk, pace and sustainability.
- Shape governed uses of data, automation and AI where they provide measurable client value.
- Align Salesforce decisions with enterprise architecture across multi-team and multi-partner environments.
- Support bids, pre-sales, account growth, solution shaping, estimation, delivery approaches and client presentations.
- Coach developing architects and contribute reusable assets, methods and lessons to the architecture community.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Salesforce Solution Architect on complex, enterprise-scale transformation programmes.
- Experience delivering solutions for UK public sector or other complex, highly regulated organisations.
- Strong record of leading solution design and guiding implementation teams, partners and senior stakeholders.
- Strong Salesforce ecosystem knowledge and sufficient understanding of integration, data, cloud, identity, security and digital experience technologies.
- Experience designing beyond Salesforce, including integration, data, security, identity, cloud and operational considerations.
- Knowledge of Salesforce architecture principles, platform constraints, configuration and customisation trade-offs, and integration patterns.
- Experience with architecture governance and assurance, including ownership of decisions, risks, assumptions and non-functional requirements.
- Ability to balance strategic direction with delivery pragmatism and remain technically engaged with delivery teams.
- Clear communication and ability to influence decisions without formal authority.
- Experience supporting sales and pre-sales activities, including discovery, solution shaping, estimation, proposals and client presentations.
- Strong commercial awareness.
- Relevant Salesforce architecture certifications or equivalent continuing professional development is desirable.
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture methods or major cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud is desirable.
- Must obtain Security Check (SC) clearance and have resided continuously in the United Kingdom for the last five years; some posts may be restricted to sole UK Nationals.
Benefits
- Hybrid working across Capgemini offices, client sites and home working according to role and business needs.
- UK employees can request flexible working arrangements.
- Wellbeing support includes Mental Health Champions and wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
- Disability Confident Employer interview commitment for eligible candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm that delivers strategy, cloud, AI, software engineering, and managed services to large enterprises and public-sector clients. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Paris, it is publicly traded on Euronext Paris and operates in 50+ countries. The group expanded its engineering capabilities by acquiring Altran in 2020, now operating as Capgemini Engineering.