At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead Salesforce projects from start to finish, guiding teams and defining solutions.
- Company: Join Slalom, a global consulting firm focused on people and innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, innovative benefits, and opportunities for personal growth.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with a focus on career development and support.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by transforming how businesses connect with their customers.
- Qualifications: Experience in Agile development and leading diverse teams in Salesforce projects.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Location: UK - London or Manchester - with client onsite
Slalom is a global, human-centric business and technology consulting firm. We specialise in partnering with organisations that aspire to excellence, helping them tackle complex challenges and achieve transformative results through strategy, technology, and business transformation services. By prioritising people, Slalom creates a unique consulting experience, with a team of strategists and engineers delivering practical, end-to-end solutions that drive impactful outcomes for our clients. We empower people and organisations to dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all.
About our role:
As a Platinum Salesforce partner, we help our clients transform the way they connect with their customers. Our team is made up of Salesforce-certified experts with experience across the Salesforce Customer Success Platform and multiple industries. As the 3rd largest global Salesforce partner, we are committed to growing and developing our Salesforce talent, offering continued growth opportunities and exposing our people to interesting and diverse projects.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Salesforce Solution Architect to join our UK team.
What You’ll Do:
- Own the functional solution and guide the team through each stage of delivery from project initiation through project completion, including solution definition, design, implementation, and transition/handoff.
- Define and work within all aspects of project delivery such as planning, grooming, stand‑ups, retrospectives, and demos.
- Drive complex business requirements from targeted business outcomes, synthesizing requirements into development roadmaps and guiding the team in technical execution utilizing the full capabilities of the Salesforce platform.
- Guide multi‑discipline technical and non‑technical teams (e.g., business analysts, configurators, developers, user experience designers, etc.).
- Work with Slalom or client Quality Assurance teams in the definition and execution of QA and UAT test plans, verification of sprint feature releases, while assisting in defect triage with the delivery team.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated ability in Agile software development as a delivery lead, functional lead, program lead, or similar.
- Experience leading pre‑sales solutioning.
- Able to serve as a liaison between both business and technical teams to drive effective, timely Salesforce solutions that fulfill strategic and operational needs.
- Skilled at defining and documenting business and functional requirements for ongoing system improvement initiatives in iterative software development environments.
- Experience leading multi‑discipline teams in all phases of product and software development, in addition to testing lifecycles within the Salesforce ecosystem.
- Experience leading Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, review, demo, and stand‑up sessions.
- Familiarity with process maps, BRDs, system diagrams, user experience, application maps, test plans, and user stories.
- Understanding of multi‑cloud Salesforce solutions using the Salesforce product suite including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Communities, AppExchange, and complementary technologies.
Slalom prides itself on helping our team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in our team members with competitive and innovative benefit programs and services that meet the unique needs of our diverse workforce. If you require any assistance with regards to reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact us – we will always be happy to help.
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