Salesforce Lead Developer

Title: Salesforce Technical Lead / Lead Developer

Location: London | Hybrid (2-3 days per week onsite)

Contract: 6 months (possibility to extend)

Rate: To discuss

Our client is 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Support deployments using agreed DevOps tooling (primarily Copado and codescan.io).
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• Experience working in regulated environments (financial services or government). (Advantageous)
• Additional Salesforce certifications beyond core requirements. (Advantageous)
• Experience supporting data model remediation or complex refactoring initiatives. (Advantageous)

Certifications/Qualifications

• Salesforce Administrator
• Platform App Builder
• Platform Developer I
• Platform Developer II