Salesforce Technical Architect

About the role

Accenture's Salesforce Business Group is seeking a seasoned Salesforce Technical Architect to lead the design and delivery of complex, multi‑cloud solutions for clients across New Zealand. You will work closely with functional teams and senior stakeholders to translate business goals into scalable, secure technical architectures.

Key responsibilities

• Facilitate technical architecture workshops and design sessions with clients.
• Design end‑to‑end Salesforce solutions across Sales, Service, Marketing, Experience, Data and other clouds.
• Define integration, authentication and data architecture strategies for enterprise environments.
• Own the technical solution, ensuring scalability, performance and security.
• Provide architecture recommendations, trade‑offs and rationale in governance forums.
• Collaborate with delivery leads, developers and functional teams to ensure practical, maintainable solutions.
• Establish and enforce best practices for development, integration and data migration.
• Act as the escalation point for technical and architectural challenges.
• Lead and mentor delivery teams, ensuring alignment with standards and high‑quality outcomes.

Required profile

• Proven experience as a Salesforce Technical Architect or senior technical lead.
• Strong expertise in Salesforce platform architecture, integrations and data modelling.
• Experience designing solutions across multiple Salesforce clouds and large enterprise environments.
• Ability to lead technical decision‑making and guide delivery teams.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and client‑facing experience.
• Experience across the full implementation lifecycle.
• Relevant Salesforce certifications (e.g., CTA pathway, Application/System Architect) highly regarded.
• Commercial awareness and ability to align architecture with business outcomes.

Required skills

• Salesforce platform architecture
• Salesforce integrations
• Data modelling on Salesforce
• Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud
• Authentication and security design
• Scalability and performance optimisation
• Data migration best practices

What we offer

• Leadership team with deep Salesforce delivery experience.
• Access to over 270 Salesforce specialists and certification pathways.
• Opportunities to work on large‑scale, complex transformation programs.
• Structured career progression and development pathways.
• Ability to contribute to communities of practice and shape future delivery.