Salesforce Technical Lead at UST, London, £Contract Rate

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.