Role description
Salesforce Technical Lead
Location: London (Hybrid- 3 days working from onsite-Mandatory)
Client Business Area: Asset Management Platform
Immediate start
Permanent/ Contract inside IR35/ Fixed term contract
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of scalable Salesforce solutions using Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and Flows.
- Provide technical leadership to a team of Salesforce developers, ensuring adherence to coding best practices and project standards.
- Collaborate with business analysts, architects, and product owners to translate business requirements into functional and technical solutions.
- Review code, provide mentorship, and enforce coding and architectural standards across the development team.
- Drive development across Salesforce clouds like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud, leveraging out-of-the-box features where appropriate.
- Guide team members in developing Lightning pages, Dynamic Forms, and building automated flows.
- Manage and troubleshoot integrations with external systems via REST/SOAP APIs, middleware tools, and native Salesforce integration tools.
- Participate and contribute in and drive Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Stay updated with Salesforce releases and features and recommend adoption strategies to enhance system capabilities.
- Act as a point of contact for offshore/onshore coordination and stakeholder communication.
- Ensure quality assurance through test coverage, unit testing, and continuous integration practices.
Key Skills & Experience
- Minimum 9+ years of Salesforce development experience, including 3+ years in a Technical Lead role.
- Strong expertise in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Salesforce Flows, Visualforce, SOQL/SOSL, and Salesforce APIs.
- Proven experience leading Salesforce development teams and delivering enterprise-scale implementations.
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce integrations using REST/SOAP APIs and middleware platforms.
- Strong knowledge of Salesforce architecture, data models, security, sharing rules, and best practices.
- Experience with trigger frameworks, CI/CD, DevOps tools (Copado, Gearset, etc.), and Git/version control.
- Knowledge of Salesforce Data Cloud and Agentforce.
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across technical and business teams.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and mentoring development teams.
Key Role Requirement:
- Strong Salesforce development experience including Apex, Visualforce, LWC, and Salesforce Flows.
- Proven history in leading Salesforce development teams and delivering Salesforce projects.
- Hands-on experience with trigger frameworks, integration patterns, and deployment strategies (CI/CD).
- Strong understanding of Salesforce data models, sharing rules, security models, and governor limits.
- Experience with DevOps tools for Salesforce like Copado, Gearset, or similar is a plus.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve technical challenges.
- Ability to collaborate with teams and communicate technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders.
- Knowledge of Data Cloud and Agent Force is desirable.
- Monitor the performance of Salesforce solutions and implement optimizations as needed.
- Lead troubleshooting and debugging efforts for complex Salesforce-related issues.
- mplement and enforce best practices for development, testing, and release management.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience in environments using Version Control Systems (e.g., Git).
Required Certifications:
Must Have: Developer Certification (Platform Dev 1) and AppBuilder Certification.
Preferred: Salesforce Platform Dev 2.
Good to Have: Salesforce Certified Application Architect, Salesforce Certified System Architect or Consultant (Sales Cloud/Service Cloud) Certifications, Salesforce Certified DevOps Engineer.
Latest Certifications (Added plus): AI Associate/ Data Cloud / Agentforce Specialist.
If you are passionate about building innovative Salesforce solutions, driving technical excellence, and leading high-performing teams within a dynamic client environment, we would love to hear from you.
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Skills
Salesforce, Salesforce Data Cloud, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Agile, Salesforce Experience Cloud, Salesforce Service Cloud
About UST
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