Salesforce Platform Architect

Salesforce Platform Architect

Salary: £60,000 - £66,000 (+ Benefits)

Grade: P3

Directorate:
Chief Operating Office

Reports to:

Head of Architecture

Contract:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time 35 hours per week

Location:

Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Visa sponsorship:
You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Internal closing date: 24 June

• Defining and maintaining the Salesforce platform architecture by
  • Delivering end-to-end, secure, and integrated solutions aligned to Cancer Research UK's strategy.
  • Providing technical leadership, standards and governance across teams.
• Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and support the wider architecture capability through expert guidance, coaching, and architectural oversight.
• Defining guidelines for platform usage, customisation, and integration to ensure consistent, secure, and scalable use of Salesforce across the organisation.
• Ensuring the scalability, performance, and reliability of the Salesforce platform meet the charity's current and future operational and strategic needs.
• Designing quality, scalable, and performant Salesforce solutions to ensure all components fit together into a coherent, maintainable, and business-aligned architecture.
• Translating business requirements into high-level and low-level technical designs, enabling delivery teams to build effective low-code or pro-code solutions.
• Overseeing the implementation of new platform features, modules, and enhancements, ensuring they align with architectural standards and deliver business value.
• Building and guiding the creation of proofs of concept to validate solution options and accelerate innovation within delivery teams.
• Designing and overseeing Salesforce data integrations, ensuring data quality, integrity, and reliable information exchange across connected systems.
• Providing technical leadership across Engineering, Analysis, and Architecture communities to reduce technical risk, manage technical debt, and develop a Salesforce Centre of Excellence.

• An experienced Architect who has a strong knowledge of Salesforce architecture and platform within large organisations (maintaining, developing, or implementing Salesforce).
  • Rather than focusing on building solutions, this role has responsibility across the Salesforce platform. We’re looking for someone with strong Salesforce skills and knowledge to:
  • Deliver both lower level design, development, and technical configuration, as well as top-level solutions.
  • Ensure partners meet organisational and Salesforce requirements and standards (e.g. attending governance workshops and challenging build approaches, use of out of the box functionality, and modular design).
• Strong architectural thinking with exposure to a Salesforce platform that integrates with multiple platforms/products.
• Demonstrable understanding of the following Salesforce features:
  • Accounting soft ledger, Sales Cloud, and Service Cloud.
  • Knowledge of Findock would be advantageous, but is not essential.
• Proven knowledge of Salesforce security and governance best practices, with experience conducting impact assessments.
• A successful track record of building credible and collaborative internal and external stakeholder relationships with strong interpersonal, communication, influencing, and negotiating skills.
• Experience coaching others, guiding technical decisions and architectural direction to support the development of Salesforce capability across teams and third‑party partners.
• Experience delivering architecture through Agile Product teams (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean).
• Strong analytical thinking and problem‑solving skills.

We provide a working environment that supports wellbeing and offers a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities, and high‑quality tools. Policies and processes enable you to improve your work‑life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve personal wellbeing goals. Explore our benefits on our careers web page.