Salesforce Technical Architect at Handelsbanken Plc, London, 12 Months, £Competitive Day Rate

Salesforce Technical Architect (12m Day Rate Contractor)

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Main Responsibilities

The Technical Architect (Salesforce) is accountable for the end-to-end technical integrity of the Salesforce platform across Financial Services Cloud (FSC), OmniStudio, and Experience Cloud. Working closely with the other architects, the role sets and enforces the technical direction for delivery teams - governing solution design, development standards, platform security, and DevOps practices.

The role serves as the primary technical authority within the delivery organisation: making high-consequence design decisions, resolving complex platform challenges, and ensuring that custom development and integrations are fit for purpose in a regulated banking environment.

Equally, the Technical Architect is a people leader - mentoring developers, setting the standard for engineering craft, and building a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement across the team.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Solution Design

• Own end-to-end technical architecture for the Salesforce platform - covering FSC,OmniStudio, Experience Cloud, and integrated systems - ensuring designs are scalable, secure, and aligned to enterprise architecture principles.
• Produce and maintain technical design documents, solution architecture records, integration specifications, and data flow diagrams to organisation standards.
• Define clear boundaries between declarative configuration and programmatic development - making well-reasoned, documented decisions on when custom Apex, LWC, or integration development is warranted.
• Lead technical proof of concept development to validate platform feasibility, performance, and integration patterns ahead of build commitment.
• Evaluate partner and AppExchange products against platform fit, security posture, and total cost of ownership - providing clear recommendations with documented trade-offs.
• Provide technical input into the strategic Salesforce platform roadmap, working with the other architects and Salesforce design authority to align delivery priorities to long-term architecture goals.
Platform Security & Compliance

• Serve as the primary technical authority on Salesforce platform security within the bank - covering authentication architecture, authorisation models, data classification, field-level security, and sharing rules.
• Design and govern authentication and identity patterns for Experience Cloud portals - including SAML 2.0, OIDC, and IdP integration (such as Entra ID) - working closely with InfoSec and enterprise architects.
• Ensure all technical designs comply with the bank 's Risk Management Framework, data protection obligations, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with InfoSec on penetration test findings, vulnerability remediation, and platform hardening - translating security requirements into actionable technical controls.
Development Governance

• Set, enforce, and continuously improve Salesforce development standards - including Apex coding standards, LWC design patterns, test coverage requirements, and documentation conventions.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, providing constructive, standards-based feedback, and formally sign off technical designs before development commences.
• Establish and maintain aTestDataFactorystrategy and Apex test standards, ensuring test suites are meaningful, maintainable, and performant.
• Champion declarative-first design principles - intervening where custom development is being introduced unnecessarily or without adequate technical justification.
• Identify and remediate technical debt proactively, maintaining a register of known platform risks and agreed resolution timelines.
DevOps & Delivery

• Responsible forthe Salesforce DevOps strategy and toolchain - including branching strategy, environment management, pipeline configuration (Azure DevOps), static analysis, and deployment automation.
• Define and govern the environment topology - sandbox tiering, data masking, refresh cadence - ensuring environments are fit for purpose across the delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure metadata dependency management is understood and controlled - advising functional and delivery teams on the implications of cross-team changes.
• Support release planning and coordinate technical release activities, working with delivery teams to ensure deployments are low-risk and reversible where possible.
Team Leadership & Mentoring

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership and direction to the development team - setting expectations for quality, pace, and engineering craft.
• Actively mentor developers at all levels - providing structured guidance on platform capabilities, design thinking, and professional development.
• Drive the team 's technical training agenda and certification pathway, aligning skill development to current and upcoming delivery demands.
• Participate in and provide technical leadership within agile ceremonies - sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review - ensuring stories are technically sound before sprint entry.
• Contribute to the Salesforce Community of Practice - sharing architectural patterns, lessons learned, and platform expertise across the wider organisation.
Ideal Candidate

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• Significant CRM experience with hands-on Salesforce delivery experience, with experience in a Technical Architect or Senior Technical Lead role with design authority and delivery accountability.
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering complex, enterprise-grade Salesforce solutions - including multi-system integrations, custom development, and platform-level governance.
• Deep expertise in the Salesforce platform: Apex (classes, triggers, batch, queueable, future), Lightning Web Components, SOQL optimisation, platform events, and Salesforce APIs (REST/SOAP/Bulk).
• Hands-on experience with Financial Services Cloud (FSC) - including the FSC data model, relationship management, KYC/onboarding, case management, and Wealth & Asset Management use cases.
• Practical experience with OmniStudio/ Salesforce Industries - including OmniScripts, FlexCards, DataRaptors, and Integration Procedures - and understanding their technical underpinnings and performance characteristics.
• Experience designing and governing Salesforce DevOps pipelines - branching strategy, environment management, CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps or equivalent), and metadata deployment tooling (sf CLI, SFDX).
• Experience delivering within a bank or regulated financial services institution - including working with InfoSec, risk, and compliance stakeholders, and designing to regulatory and data protection obligations.
• Solid understanding of the Salesforce security model: profiles, permission sets, sharing rules, field-level security, data classification, and platform encryption.
• Experience designing authentication architectures for Experience Cloud - including SAML 2.0, OIDC flows, and integration with enterprise IdPs (e.g., Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD).
• Demonstrable experience conducting structured code reviews, enforcing development standards, and building engineering quality culture within a delivery team.
Desirable

• Experience with Salesforce platform performance analysis - governor limit management, query optimisation, async processing patterns, and scalability testing.
• Familiarity with AppExchange product evaluation - security reviews, managed package governance, and ISV partner management.
• Experience contributing toa Salesforce Centre of Excellence or Community of Practice.
• Understanding of enterprise integration patterns - event-driven architecture, MuleSoft or equivalent middleware, and API management.
• Experience with static code analysis tooling (PMD, Salesforce Code Analyser) and test automation frameworks within Salesforce DevOps pipelines.
Salesforce Certifications

Required (or demonstrably in progress):

• Salesforce Platform Developer II
• Salesforce Application Architect (or both: Data Architecture & Management Designer and Sharing & Visibility Designer)
• Salesforce System Architect (or both: Integration Architecture Designer and Development Lifecycle & Deployment Designer)
Strongly Preferred:

• Salesforce Certified Architect (CTA) - or active pursuit of the credential
• Salesforce Financial Services Cloud Accreditation
• Salesforce B2C / Experience Cloud Consultant
Company Information

Handelsbanken is a relationship bank with a decentralised way of working, a strong local presence thanks to a nationwide network of branches, and a long-term approach to customer relations. Each Handelsbanken branch operates as a local business enabling it to make decisions at a local level and provide a bespoke service. The focus is always on the need of the individual customer and not on the sale of specific products.

We are embarking on an exciting Business Transformation journey. This transformation will significantly enhance our technology system systems, processes and services, bringing evolution to our ways of working. Join us in this transformative journey, where your dedication, adaptability and commitment will play a crucial role in shaping the future of banking for our valued customers.

The Bank is deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities. This is so that we are an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work that encourages everyone to apply, regardless of socio-economic background, age, disability, pregnancy and/or parental status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), veteran status, marital and civil partnership status, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.

Check our Handelsbanken website for further information

At Handelsbanken, we deeply value our unique culture and values including trust in and respect for each individual. We take pride in nurturing a work environment where people flourish, and where they are empowered to take decisions in their areas of expertise. We take a long term perspective in everything we do and want each employee who joins us to build a long terms successful career with the Bank.

What is in it for you?

• We have a wide range of learning and development available, empowering and enabling our colleagues to take ownership of their own development.
• Competitive Salary and an extensive range of benefits is provided, including private medical insurance, income protection and life assurance
• A market-leading pension contribution of 15% paid by the bank, which can be invested in a wide range of funds (including ESG and Shariah funds)
Application next steps

Your journey with us begins once you have submitted your application. One of our Handelsbanken recruiters will be reviewing your details and will later organise a phone conversation if you match the role requirements. If there is a mutual fit, we will extend an invitation for you to participate in an interview.

There will be a two stage interview process.

How can we support you to be your best self? Our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to provide support e.g. if you need additional time to prepare for an interview or you have any requirements for any part of the interview/hiring process - just let us know by email uk_talent@careers.handelsbanken.co.uk .

This advert will be live for a minimum of two weeks. However, please note that after the two weeks, the closing date could change at any time depending on the number of responses received.

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