Salesforce Solution Architect

When you join Kainos, you get to think beyond limitations to make an immediate and positive impact – like transforming digital services for millions of citizens or helping Fortune 500 companies get live and thrive on Workday.

You’ll be part of a people-first culture that is growing around the world. We’re a creative, committed, and diverse group of individuals who succeed as a team.

At Kainos your ideas are heard and valued and you’ll leave a legacy that you can feel proud of.  Join us and discover how our people write our story.

A key role in the recently established Salesforce practice, you will be responsible for the architectural decisions and technical deliverables in Salesforce engagements. You will guide our teams in translating business needs into secure, scalable and innovative solutions, and provide technical direction as you solve problems together.

As a Salesforce Solution Architect, you will:

· Lead multi-skilled agile teams in solution design, implementation, data migration, and integration activities, ensuring AI integration and platform-first solutions to minimize time to value for our customers.

· Collaborate and negotiate with customer architects to agree functional and non-functional designs, advising customers and managers on the estimated effort, technical implications and complexity surrounding your designs.

· Assist Delivery Managers with planning, estimation, risk mitigation, delivery assurance and ensuring compliance with relevant standards and best practice.

· Act as a senior technical liaison with customers, Salesforce UK, and our Salesforce partners.

· Support business development, working with our sales and account teams to qualify opportunities, supporting presales activity, bids and proposals.

· Cultivate a public persona, publishing insightful views and promoting collaboration in the Salesforce ecosystem.

We are passionate about developing our people. You will manage, coach and develop a small number of our Salesforce practice staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development.

As a technical leader, you will work with your peers to develop policy and standards, share knowledge and mentor those around you. You’ll do this whilst advising about new technologies and approaches, with room to learn, develop and grow.

Minimum (Essential) Requirements

· Proven experience as a Solution Architect, accountable for the technical delivery of successful, large-scale Salesforce implementations within the UK (preferably public sector).

· Deep knowledge of Salesforce architecture, platform (Sales, Service, Experience, Data Cloud) and third-party products available in the ecosystem.

· Salesforce certifications: Certified Application Architect and System Architect.

· Experience in communicating and negotiating whole solution architecture concepts with customer stakeholders, prioritising platform over third-party components over bespoke development.

· Experience prioritising non-functional concerns for customers and has experience incorporating these into the application design.

· Experience with complementary technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, M365) and integration with legacy systems.

· Able to simply and clearly communicate technical design in conversation, documentation and presentations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

· Willingness to travel to client workshops and Salesforce events across the UK as needed (estimated at 8 days per month).

Desirable

· Salesforce Certified Technical Architect.

· Active SC or DV clearance. (Eligibility to obtain clearance is mandatory).

· Salesforce certifications in additional specialisms such as Public Sector Solutions.

· Has developed business across an account with sales and account managers.

· Experience in managing others, setting objectives, giving feedback and leading performance reviews.

· Able to prioritise their time across multiple major projects.

· Shares their thoughts and views on technology, participating in technology communities.

WHO YOU ARE:

Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren't abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience.

These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.

ABOUT US:

At Kainos we use technology to solve real problems for our customers, overcome big challenges for businesses, and make people’s lives easier.

We build strong relationships with our customers and go beyond to change the way they work today and the impact they have tomorrow.

Our two specialist practices, Digital Services and Workday, work globally for clients across healthcare, commercial and the public sector to make the world a little bit better, day by day.

For more information, see kainos.com.