Salesforce Architect

As a Salesforce Architect at Audley Travel, you will be accountable for the overall architecture and governance of our Salesforce platform. You will ensure that our Salesforce environments are designed and maintained according to best practices, scalable consumption models, and robust technical standards. This role will oversee technical change within Salesforce, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and business objectives. You will collaborate with stakeholders, delivery teams, and vendors to optimise platform performance, security, and integration., * Platform Architecture Ownership: Define and maintain the Salesforce platform architecture, ensuring alignment with business as usual change and strategic roadmap projects.

• Best Practice Governance: Establish and enforce Salesforce development and configuration standards, including security, data integrity, error logging, and performance optimisation.
• Development & Environment Strategy: Define and maintain standards for Salesforce development tooling, CI/CD pipeline setup, automated testing frameworks, test data management, and sandbox strategy. Ensure robust deployment processes, version control, and environment governance to support efficient and secure delivery.
• Consumption Modelling: Design and monitor usage models for Salesforce licenses, storage, and API consumption to ensure cost efficiency and scalability.
• Technical Change Management: Lead impact assessments for proposed changes, manage architectural decision records, and oversee technical governance through leading a Technical Design Authority (TDA) for the platform.
• Architectural Reviews: Conduct design reviews for Salesforce-related projects, validating adherence to architectural principles and approved solution designs.
• Risk & Compliance: Identify risks related to platform scalability, security, and technical debt; maintain registers and ensure regular reviews.
• Vendor & Product Management: Engage with Salesforce and third-party vendors for technical due diligence and roadmap alignment.
• Innovation & Optimization: Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the Salesforce ecosystem to enhance business value and operational efficiency.

You're an experienced Solution Architect with strong Salesforce expertise, including a strong background in designing solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and related products. You bring a deep understanding of platform capabilities, limitations, and best-practice design principles.

Other key experience needed:

• Experience in designing scalable, secure, and integrated Salesforce solutions.
• Knowledge of API integration patterns and middleware for Salesforce connectivity.
• Familiarity with license and consumption modelling within Salesforce environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence at all levels.
• Commercial awareness and ability to align technical decisions with business objectives.
• In-depth knowledge of security by design principles within Salesforce.
• Good understanding of Microsoft 365 including MS Office, Teams, SharePoint and Outlook

We are committed to our employees' quality of life and value the importance of flexibility by offering hybrid working where you can split your time between one of our wonderful offices and remotely from home or elsewhere in the UK. We ask that employees are office-based for a minimum of 3 days per week.

There's more:

• Discretionary annual bonus plan
• Holiday - 25 days rising to 30 days with length of service
• A day off for your birthday
• A day off for volunteering to support a charity, local support group or community work of your choice
• Private Medical Insurance and access to Healthshield health cash plan - money back for costs associated with everyday healthcare (including optical, dental, medical, prescriptions, physio), and access to medical and wellbeing resources such as a GP service, employee assistance programme and counselling
• Enhanced family leave
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Life insurance
• Discounted Audley trips (for you and your friends & family) and exclusive access to staff travel discount websites
• Wellhub - a wellbeing platform that gives you unlimited, discounted access to top gyms, studios, and wellbeing apps
• Benefits Platform - a reward scheme that gives you discounts and cashback with hundreds of retailers

At Audley Travel, we turn careers into adventures. We're dedicated to creating unique travel experiences for our clients and fostering a dynamic, rewarding environment for our team. Join Audley and become part of a supportive community that prioritises your development. Our inclusive culture, along with competitive salaries and benefits, supports your well-being and growth. If your passion is travel and you're looking for a career that excites and inspires, Audley Travel is the perfect place for you. Join us to create unforgettable journeys together. Find out more here, We believe it's our people that make the difference and who build Audley into the success it is today. We pride ourselves on enabling people to reach their full potential through promoting and celebrating a diverse and inclusive working environment.