Salesforce Technical Architect
Aurora Energy Re2 months ago
Oxford, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Act as the in-house technical authority and own end-to-end Salesforce solution design across Sales Cloud, Account Engagement, Revenue Cloud/CPQ, and enterprise integrations.
- Set technical standards, architecture patterns, platform roadmap, system boundaries, data ownership, security, and governance for Salesforce.
- Design and build scalable solutions using Salesforce Flow, Apex, Lightning Web Components, SOQL/SOSL, and appropriate declarative or coded approaches.
- Architect Revenue Cloud/CPQ quote-to-order capabilities, including products, pricing, quoting, approvals, orders, assets, renewals, and amendments.
- Design and deliver REST API integrations using API-led and event-driven patterns, platform events, change data capture, error handling, retries, and monitoring.
- Lead data migration, data management, data quality, mapping, deduplication, reconciliation, and Data Loader activities.
- Translate business requirements and roadmaps into practical technical solutions while identifying risks and challenging assumptions.
- Represent Salesforce changes at the Change Advisory Board and own release management, environment strategy, and deployment governance.
- Act as the escalation and technical decision point for administrators, mentor junior team members, and maintain SOPs, runbooks, and knowledge articles.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of the Salesforce data model, standard and custom objects, relationships, record types, security, and sharing.
- Experience owning Salesforce solution design across Sales Cloud, Account Engagement, Revenue Cloud, and third-party or downstream systems.
- Hands-on experience with Account Engagement/Pardot or equivalent marketing automation platforms and Sales Cloud integration.
- Experience architecting Revenue Cloud/CPQ or equivalent quote-to-order capabilities.
- Proven ability to design and govern end-to-end lead-to-cash architecture across Salesforce and external enterprise systems.
- Strong practical Apex knowledge, including triggers, asynchronous processing, governor limits, testing, bulk-safe design, code review, and technical investigation.
- Experience building Salesforce Flow automations, including Screen, Record-Triggered, and Scheduled Flows.
- Confidence writing SOQL and SOSL queries, including relationship queries and aggregate functions.
- Experience designing REST API integrations and applying platform events, change data capture, error handling, retry logic, and operational monitoring.
- Experience with data migration, data management, data quality, mapping, deduplication, reconciliation, and Data Loader.
- Ability to understand Salesforce within broader enterprise architecture, including data ownership, master data, security, finance, and ERP impacts.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable architecture, manage stakeholders, identify risks, and deliver practical roadmaps.
- Desirable qualifications include CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Visualforce, Salesforce CLI, metadata-driven development, DevOps and release governance experience, Agentforce awareness, relevant Salesforce certifications, and experience in global organizations.
Benefits
- Private medical insurance, dental insurance, parental support, salary-exchange pension, Employee Assistance Programme, local Oxford discounts, cycle-to-work scheme, and flu jabs.
- Hybrid working with a mix of office and home working and potentially adjustable working hours; the role is based in Oxford.
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About Aurora Energy Re
Aurora Energy Research provides power market forecasting, analytics, and data to utilities, investors, developers, and policymakers via subscription platforms, software (including the Chronos storage valuation platform), and advisory services. It also offers programmatic access and APIs to embed forecasts, dispatch models, and insights into client workflows. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Oxford, the company operates globally and is part of TPG.