Lead Salesforce Architect - Outside IR35

Lead Salesforce Architect sought for an initial six-month contract, outside IR35. This role is largely but will require onsite attendance in Birmingham 2 -4 days per month.

You will work closely with the Transformation Process Leads to design the end state system landscape ensuring the business and IT requirements can be met. This will require you to understand the current environment to ensure that legacy systems will inter-operate efficiently and effectively with the new CRM (new Salesforce and CPQ instance) and Finance ERP (NetSuite) solutions.

You'll need to be solution focused, be full of initiative and have excellent stakeholder management, communication and organisational skills.

You will also have specific responsibility for and both technical and functional architecture of the Salesforce platform. This includes developing a thorough understanding of the Client's requirements then applying industry best practices and detailed knowledge of the solution to design an optimal solution that supports the business process and meets/exceeds functional requirements.

We're looking for someone with:

• 10+ years deep understanding of system architecture.
• Minimum of 5-7 years designing and developing Salesforce solutions.
• Experience of working in large scale IT and business transformation programmes.
• Experience as a System Architect for Salesforce / CPQ and integration to professional services systems, and/or NetSuite (mandatory to have one / both of these).
• Project, change and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication skills (oral, written and presentation), including the ability to listen effectively.
• Strong presentation skills; able to optimally present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of customers.
• Ability to produce high quality written documentation for all end deliverables.
• Ability to self-manage and work independently, work to tight deadlines, prioritize workloads and work with related internal business functions.
• Ability to problem solve and to drive problem solving within the team.
• Ability to manage individual and team workflows in a documented and transparent manner using workflow tools (e.g. JIRA) and project plans as required.
• Ability to articulate the relevant solution options considered and rational for selection.

For immediate consideration please apply online today.