Salesforce Technical Architect (L5)

About The Role
As a Salesforce Technical Architect you'll own the technical architecture of complex, integration-heavy Salesforce solutions and act as the authoritative technical voice for your delivery squad. You'll provide hands-on technical direction — platform setup, configuration and automation guidance — while defining the integration patterns and standards that keep large enterprise solutions scalable, secure and maintainable.
You'll work on large-scale, integration-heavy Salesforce projects in the energy & utilities sector, built on Salesforce and Salesforce Industries, and you'll be confident leading client-facing meetings and workshops from requirements gathering through to demonstration. We're particularly interested in candidates with background in Energy & Utilities Cloud / Salesforce Industries.
Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical architecture — translating requirements into robust, well-engineered solution designs.
• Lead analysis of technical and integration requirements; review current-state architecture and define target integration patterns across a complex enterprise landscape.
• Provide hands-on technical setup, configuration and workflow-automation guidance to developers and consultants.
• Serve as the main technical point of contact for the customer on architectural matters.
• Provide technical governance — set and uphold standards, review technical artefacts, and evaluate change requests and deviations from specification.
• Conduct sprint reviews and provide architectural feedback and technical oversight throughout delivery.
• Own and maintain architecture documentation.
• Ensure solutions align with Salesforce Well-Architected principles and with security, data and performance standards.

About Us
Inardua was founded in 2020 and is a Salesforce Consulting Partner and Certified B Corporation. Our mission is to drive positive change by empowering organisations to create lasting impact through thoughtful technology implementations, with a primary focus on the energy & utilities industries.
About You
The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

• An excellent understanding of the Salesforce platform and its architecture.
• Experience in Energy & Utilities Cloud / Salesforce Industries.
• Proven experience designing and governing complex, integration-heavy Salesforce solutions in a large enterprise environment.
• Deep, hands-on knowledge of integration patterns and approaches (APIs, events, middleware) between Salesforce and external systems.
• Experience gained from a range of projects (ideally 100+ users).
• One or more Salesforce "Architect"-level certifications (e.g. Application Architect / System Architect).
• The ability to solve complex problems and to concisely summarise and share findings — able to see both the big picture and the detail.
• Comfortable communicating technical issues in clear, everyday language to technical and non-technical audiences.
• An accomplished communicator through written, verbal and presentation skills, with a friendly, customer-focused attitude.
• Knowledge of agile working practices, in particular Scrum, and associated tools such as Jira.
• Ability to work successfully in a team with a diverse range of interests and backgrounds.

Preferred Qualifications (bonus points for any of these — please still apply if you don't have them all)

• Salesforce Integration Architect and/or System Architect certifications; Certified Technical Architect (CTA) is highly desirable.
• Salesforce Platform Developer I & II.
• Salesforce Industries / OmniStudio and Energy & Utilities Cloud credentials.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development and architecture tooling (e.g. Claude, GitHub Copilot).

Benefits
As well as everything you'd expect (competitive salary, paid-for training & certifications, and unlimited opportunity for progression & development), we provide:

• 38 days annual leave including bank holidays
• Fully remote working (or work from our offices in Stroud, you choose!)
• Full (8%) company pension scheme
• Health plan
• Profit sharing bonus
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave packages

Level & SFIA Profile
This role maps to SFIA Level 5 ("Ensure, advise") — an experienced, authoritative technical expert who works under broad direction, is accountable for significant technical outcomes end-to-end, provides expert guidance and governance, and sets standards others apply. This is a senior individual-contributor / technical-leadership role, not a line-management role. Core skill: Solution architecture (ARCH) at Level 5, supported by Systems design, Systems integration and build, and Requirements definition and management.
Salary & Other Details

• Level 5 — Base £73,800 - £90,200
• Location: Onshore — UK (remote, or Stroud office)
  

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We will make reasonable adjustments to support candidates throughout the recruitment process.
We are unable to provide Visa Sponsorship for this role, you must therefore already have the right to live and work within the United Kingdom.

Compensation: £73,800 - £90,200