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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