Salesforce Lead Developer

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