Salesforce Technical Architect (L5

About The Role

As a Salesforce Technical Architect you ll own the technical architecture of complex, integration-heavy Salesforce solutions and act as the authoritative technical voice for your delivery squad. You ll provide hands-on technical direction — platform setup, configuration and automation guidance — while defining the integration patterns and standards that keep large enterprise solutions scalable, secure and maintainable. You ll work on large-scale, integration-heavy Salesforce projects in the energy & utilities sector, built on Salesforce and Salesforce Industries, and you ll be confident leading client-facing meetings and workshops from requirements gathering through to demonstration.

We re particularly interested in candidates with background in Energy & Utilities Cloud / Salesforce Industries.

• Own end-to-end technical architecture — translating requirements into robust, well-engineered solution designs.
• Lead analysis of technical and integration requirements; review current-state architecture and define target integration patterns across a complex enterprise landscape.
• Provide hands-on technical setup, configuration and workflow-automation guidance to developers and consultants.
• Serve as the main technical point of contact for the customer on architectural matters.
• Provide technical governance — set and uphold standards, review technical artefacts, and evaluate change requests and deviations from specification.
• Conduct sprint reviews and provide architectural feedback and technical oversight throughout delivery.
• Own and maintain architecture documentation.
• Ensure solutions align with Salesforce Well-Architected principles and with security, data and performance standards.

Inardua was founded in 2020 and is a Salesforce Consulting Partner and Certified B Corporation. Our mission is to drive positive change by empowering organisations to create lasting impact through thoughtful technology implementations, with a primary focus on the energy & utilities industries.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

• An excellent understanding of the Salesforce platform and its architecture.
• Experience in Energy & Utilities Cloud / Salesforce Industries.
• Proven experience designing and governing complex, integration-heavy Salesforce solutions in a large enterprise environment.
• Deep, hands-on knowledge of integration patterns and approaches (APIs, events, middleware) between Salesforce and external systems.
• Experience gained from a range of projects (ideally 100+ users).
• One or more Salesforce "Architect"-level certifications (e.g. Application Architect / System Architect).
• The ability to solve complex problems and to concisely summarise and share findings — able to see both the big picture and the detail.
• Comfortable communicating technical issues in clear, everyday language to technical and non-technical audiences.
• An accomplished communicator through written, verbal and presentation skills, with a friendly, customer-focused attitude.
• Knowledge of agile working practices, in particular Scrum, and associated tools such as Jira.
• Ability to work successfully in a team with a diverse range of interests and backgrounds.

• Salesforce Integration Architect and/or System Architect certifications;
  Certified Technical Architect (CTA) is highly desirable.
• Salesforce Platform Developer I & II.
• Salesforce Industries / Omni Studio and Energy & Utilities Cloud credentials.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and architecture tooling (e.g. Claude, Git Hub Copilot).

As well as everything you d expect (competitive salary, paid-for training & certifications, and unlimited opportunity for progression & development), we provide:

• 38 days annual leave including bank holidays
• Fully remote working (or work from our offices in Stroud, you choose!)
• Full (8%) company pension scheme
• Health plan
• Profit sharing bonus
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave packages

This role maps to SFIA Level 5 ("Ensure, advise") — an experienced, authoritative technical…