Lead Solutions Architect

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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