Development Lead (Salesforce)

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Closing Date: 31 January, 2025

Development Lead (Salesforce)

Location: Remote in the UK   |  Category: Salesforce, Software Development

The Role

Working with both internal and external resource, the Development Lead will help define and implement best-practices as well as ensuring adherence to group target-states and policies (e.g. architecture, security, observability, privacy, data-handling, etc).

This is a T-shaped role with the successful candidate expected to act in a lead capacity across both the on-platform and off-platform development efforts, with deep subject-matter expertise in on-platform development.

Key responsibilities

  • Oversee the development effort of the product suite, whether delivered internally or externally via a third-party development partner
  • Ensure adherence to best practice and group policies and strong evidence-backed security posture
  • Line-management of development team where required including, but not limited to coaching/mentoring, 1:1 meetings, appraisals and personal development plans, identifying training needs and driving high performance
  • Working with internal and external talent acquisition stakeholders to assess, interview and select candidates to hire
  • Supporting the compliance teams with the scoping of penetration tests and the analysis of the findings, to be fed into the product roadmap (aligned to the group remediation schedule)
  • Supporting the Compliance team with information security assessments, coordinating with the development team and other technical stakeholders to provide guidance on answers
  • Articulate technical debt to Product, highlighting critical timescales (e.g., deprecation dates, supplier switch-offs, etc)

Our Brand Values

  • We are powered by our people
  • We delight our customers
  • We make it happen
  • We are always learning
  • We are One Team

Knowledge & Skills:

  • In-depth knowledge of Salesforce Apex, including bulkification, governor limits and async processing
  • Strong expertise in Lightning Web Components (LWC) and modern Salesforce UI architecture
  • High competency in Salesforce data modelling, security, sharing rules and large data volume handling
  • Proven ability to lead complex Salesforce development initiatives and mentor mid-to-senior engineers
  • Working knowledge of AWS services such as Lambda, ECS Fargate, SQS, and DynamoDB is beneficial
  • Familiarity with off-platform development in languages such as Java or Go is advantageous
  • High level of understanding of technical security and secure development methodologies within the Salesforce ecosystem