Salesforce Solution Architect at Endava

This role is primarily focused on delivering high-quality solutions as a Salesforce Solution Architect across a variety of clients and industries. The journey may take you through Salesforce implementations, complex integrations with enterprise systems, or migrations from legacy CRM platforms. It is a challenging and strategic position that will enable you to operate at the intersection of business and technology, shaping scalable and future-proof solutions.   Requirements gathering and planning phase • Collaborate with stakeholders (business, product, and technical teams) to define and validate functional and non-functional requirements, or assess requirements provided by Business Analysts. • Translate business needs into architectural vision and solution approach, ensuring alignment with enterprise and Salesforce best practices. • Design high-level solution architectures, considering scalability, performance, security, and available resources. • Define architecture principles, standards, and technical guidelines to govern delivery. • Develop high-level solution specifications, with a strong focus on system integration, data flows, and feasibility. • Use appropriate tools and methodologies to create architecture diagrams, process flows, and solution representations. • Define key aspects of delivery, including technology stack, integration patterns, development standards, and deployment strategies. • Ensure alignment between business expectations and technical implementation by clearly communicating solution intent to delivery teams.  Development and implementation of requirements into POCs or full-scale solutions • Collaborate with clients and internal teams to design and deliver proofs of concept (POCs) and validate solution approaches. • Support backlog refinement and solution breakdown, ensuring clear definition of epics, features, and technical components. • Contribute to estimation and planning activities, ensuring realistic and achievable delivery timelines. • Own the end-to-end solution design, considering scalability, maintainability, technical debt, and long-term evolution. • Provide clear architectural guidance to development teams, ensuring alignment with defined principles and standards. • Oversee implementation to ensure consistency with architecture and design decisions. • Guide teams on best practices in configuration, development, testing, and deployment. • Ensure compliance with established architecture, governance, and DevOps processes. • Validate that solutions are designed for scalability, extensibility, and future enhancements.  Go live and maintenance of solution (within existing systems/ platforms and as an integrated part of other processes)  • Ensure delivered solutions meet quality standards, security requirements, and performance expectations. • Support go-live activities, including deployment strategy, risk mitigation, and rollback planning. • Ensure solutions are maintainable, extensible, and aligned with long-term platform strategy. • Provide guidance for post-go-live optimization, enhancements, and continuous improvement.  In our projects, the Salesforce Solution Architect: • Owns the end-to-end solution design for a specific initiative, program, or client. • Bridges business requirements and technical implementation. • Defines architecture, data model, integrations, and design principles. • Ensures solution scalability, maintainability, and alignment with Salesforce best practices. • Works closely with delivery teams to ensure correct implementation of the architecture. • Engages directly with client stakeholders (both business and IT).