Salesforce Solution Architect

Overview

Salesforce I Solution Architect | Architecture

Location
: UK - London or Manchester - with client onsite

Slalom is a global, human-centric business and technology consulting firm. We specialise in partnering with organisations that aspire to excellence, helping them tackle complex challenges and achieve transformative results through strategy, technology, and business transformation services. By prioritising people, Slalom creates a unique consulting experience, with a team of strategists and engineers delivering practical, end-to-end solutions that drive impactful outcomes for our clients.

We empower people and organisations to dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all.

About our role
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As a Platinum Salesforce partner, we help our clients transform the way they connect with their customers. Our team is made up of Salesforce-certified experts with experience across the Salesforce Customer Success Platform and multiple industries. As the 3rd largest global Salesforce partner, we are committed to growing and developing our Salesforce talent, offering continued growth opportunities and exposing our people to interesting and diverse projects.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Salesforce Solution Architect to join our UK team.

• Own the functional solution and guide the team through each stage of delivery from project initiation through project completion, including solution definition, design, implementation, and transition / handoff
• Define and work within all aspects of project delivery such as planning, grooming, stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos
• Drive complex business requirements from targeted business outcomes, synthesizing requirements into development roadmaps and guiding the team in technical execution utilizing the full capabilities of the Salesforce platform
• Guide multi-discipline technical and non-technical teams (e.g., business analysts, configurators, developers, user experience designers, etc.)
• Work with Slalom or client Quality Assurance teams in the definition and execution of QA and UAT test plans, verification of sprint feature releases, while assisting in defect triage with the delivery team

• Demonstrated ability in Agile software development as a delivery lead, functional lead, program lead, or similar
• Experience leading pre-sales solutioning
• Able to serve as a liaison between both business and technical teams to drive effective, timely Salesforce solutions that fulfill strategic and operational needs
• Skilled at defining and documenting business and functional requirements for ongoing system improvement initiatives in iterative software development environments
• Experience leading multi-discipline teams in all phases of product and software development, in addition to testing life cycles within the Salesforce ecosystem
• Experience leading Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, review, demo, and stand-up sessions
• Familiarity with process maps, BRDs, system diagrams, user experience, application maps, test plans, and user stories
• Understanding of multi-cloud Salesforce solutions using the Salesforce product suite including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Communities, App Exchange, and complementary technologies

We have a question for you - and it’s something we’re passionate about. Can you imagine a world in which you can truly love your life and your work? Well, we have some good news – creating that world and making this vision a reality is what we get out of bed for; it’s our north star.

But what do we really mean when we talk about loving your life and your work? Let’s look at the ways in which we help our team members to achieve this – and the ‘how’.

Deep connections, better outcome

We have deep relationships with leading technology partners and they love us for our innovative and outcome based approach. Our people are passionate about solving our clients problems using the tech that’s the best solution for them. What’s more, we’re there to work side-by-side with our client teams to enable them for success long after we’ve gone. We’re all about momentum that outlasts us.

Flexibility

Life is busy, and we understand that. Our team often…