Job Description
Lead Solutions Architect (Salesforce)
800pd INSIDE IR35 - Utilities sector
Warwick - 2 days per week onsite
A major utilities organisation is looking for a strategic and delivery-focused Lead Solutions Architect role within the Engineering and Customer Solutions team, specifically supporting a major industry-wide initiative.
The successful candidate will lead the architectural vision and governance for the project, target end-state solution, ensuring it is strategically aligned, scalable, and fit for future needs. This is a high-impact, urgent hire with a strong emphasis on governance, process leadership, and solution design oversight.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural strategy and governance
- Collaborate with solution architects and data architects to shape and guide solution design.
- Act as a bridge between programme delivery and architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals.
- Drive design thinking workshops, define the art of the possible, and ensure architectural best practices.
- Engage with Salesforce as a core CRM platform-guiding its strategic use (not hands-on configuration).
- Liaise with enterprise architects and SMEs to ensure platform alignment and reuse.
- Provide leadership and mentoring to the architecture team, without direct line management.
The ideal candidate will have strong solution architecture experience; enterprise architecture exposure is a bonus.
- Sector: Utilities/energy experience is a nice to have,
- Salesforce: High-level understanding required; technical depth not essential (Salesforce SMEs are in place).
Please apply asap if interested - GleeIT
Lead Solutions Architect
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