Salesforce Technical Lead / Salesforce Lead Developer
Location: London (On-site - minimum 40% of time, non-negotiable)
Engagement Type: Full-time
1. Job Summary
We are seeking a hands-on Salesforce Technical Lead / Lead Developer to provide day-to-day technical leadership within a scrum team delivering enhancements to a Salesforce org used by both internal and external users.
This role combines senior-level development capability with technical governance, code quality ownership, and delivery leadership. The successful candidate will lead by example: designing, building, reviewing, and deploying Salesforce solutions while ensuring alignment with FCA development standards and Salesforce best practices.
This is not a pure management role - the Technical Lead is expected to be actively coding, reviewing work, shaping technical decisions, and driving continuous improvement across the team.
2. Key Responsibilities (Day-to-Day)
Technical Leadership & Delivery
- Act as the technical lead within a scrum team delivering Salesforce configuration and custom development.
- Lead solution design for stories and epics, ensuring designs are scalable, secure, and compliant with FCA standards.
- Be hands-on in development across Apex, Lightning Web Components, configuration, and integrations where required.
- Conduct Proofs of Concept (POCs) to validate technical approaches and de-risk delivery.
Code Quality & Standards
- Own code quality across the team, ensuring adherence to Salesforce best practices and FCA development standards.
- Review Apex, LWC, and configuration changes through structured peer reviews.
- Ensure test execution, code coverage validation, and meaningful Apex test classes aligned to real business scenarios.
- Ensure all work meets Definition of Done (DoD), including design artefacts and documented peer review.
DevOps, Release & Governance
- Support deployments using agreed DevOps tooling (primarily Copado).
- Identify release readiness activities, contribute to implementation plans, and support deployment rehearsals.
- Participate in governance forums such as Release Readiness and Handover as required.
- Ensure data model changes are approved, documented, and traceable.
Agile & Team Responsibilities
- Actively participate in scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives).
- Challenge estimates constructively and provide informed input during planning.
- Ensure items meet Definition of Ready (DoR) before entering sprint, raising issues early where needed.
- Maintain visibility of technical risks, impediments, and improvement actions from retrospectives.
3. Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong Salesforce technical leadership capability in enterprise environments.
- Extensive hands-on experience with:
- Apex
- Lightning Web Components (LWC) / Aura
- Salesforce configuration and data model design
- Strong understanding of:
- Salesforce architecture
- Service Cloud
- Experience Cloud
- Salesforce Classic (where applicable)
- Agentforce Public Services (and Omnistudio)
- Good knowledge of DevOps processes and CI/CD in Salesforce environments.
- Strong documentation skills, able to communicate designs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Product Owners, testers, architects, and governance stakeholders.
- Secure-by-design mindset, with consideration of data protection and regulatory controls.
4. Nice-to-Have
- Experience working in regulated environments (financial services or government).
- Additional Salesforce certifications beyond core requirements.
- Experience supporting data model remediation or complex refactoring initiatives.
5. Qualifications
Salesforce Certifications (Essential):
- Salesforce Administrator
- Platform App Builder
- Platform Developer I
- Platform Developer II
Trailhead (to be maintained during assignment):
- Advanced Apex Specialist Superbadge
- Lightning Web Components Specialist Superbadge
- Security Specialist Superbadge
- Service Cloud Specialist Superbadge
- Data Integration Specialist Superbadge
- Relevant custom Security / Data Trailmixes