Salesforce Technical Lead - 12-month FTC

Salesforce Technical Lead - 12-month FTC

About the opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Technical Lead to join a collaborative Transformation & Technology team during an exciting period of digital change.

This role offers the opportunity to take a leading role in shaping, delivering and improving Salesforce solutions that support business growth, operational efficiency and exceptional customer experiences.

You will provide technical leadership across the Salesforce platform, combining hands-on development expertise with the ability to understand business challenges, translate requirements into effective solutions and communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Key facts:

Contract: 12-month fixed term

Salary: circa £55,000 per annum

Location: Hybrid - home working with approximately 4 days per month in the Buckinghamshire office

The role

As Salesforce Technical Lead, you will be responsible for the technical design, development and ongoing optimisation of Salesforce solutions across CRM, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud.

You will work closely with product owners, business analysts, internal teams and external partners to understand business needs, define technical approaches and deliver scalable, secure and maintainable solutions.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will be expected to design and deliver solutions end-to-end, from understanding requirements through to development, testing, deployment and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Designing and delivering Salesforce solutions from initial concept through to implementation

• Providing technical leadership across Salesforce CRM, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud

• Developing and configuring Salesforce functionality using:

• Apex

• Lightning Web Components (LWC)

• Salesforce Flows

• Marketing Cloud automations, journeys and data extensions

• Translating business requirements into practical Salesforce solutions, explaining technical considerations clearly to non-technical stakeholders

• Working collaboratively with product owners, business teams and technology colleagues to understand needs and deliver value

• Designing and supporting Salesforce integrations using APIs and middleware solutions

• Ensuring solutions follow Salesforce best practices around architecture, security, data quality and maintainability

• Supporting release management, testing, deployment and CI/CD processes

• Conducting code reviews and ensuring high-quality development standards

• Troubleshooting issues, supporting incident resolution and identifying opportunities for improvement

• Maintaining clear technical documentation, including solution designs, configuration notes and integration details

About you

You will be an experienced Salesforce professional who can demonstrate strong technical capability alongside excellent communication skills.

You will ideally be able to talk through a Salesforce solution you have designed and delivered end-to-end - explaining the business challenge, your technical approach, the implementation and the outcome.

You will bring:

• Strong hands-on Salesforce development experience

• Proven experience designing and delivering Salesforce solutions

• Strong Apex development skills, including writing clean, maintainable code and supporting testing

• Experience building solutions using Salesforce Flow and Lightning Web Components (LWC)

• Experience across Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud

• Ideally, experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud

• Experience integrating Salesforce with external platforms through APIs

• The ability to understand business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions

• Confidence communicating with both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments

What's on offer

You'll join an organisation that values innovation, collaboration and delivering meaningful digital improvements.

This is an opportunity to make a real impact on a key Salesforce platform while working alongside talented colleagues across technology and the wider organisation.

Interested?

To arrange a confidential conversation with FJWilson Talent before applying, you can email us at resourcingteam at fjwilson com

Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your CV as early as possible. Our email address is resourcingteam at fjwilson com

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We encourage applications from all sections of the community. Furthermore, qualifications and/or experience identified are indicative. We will consider applications from candidates who have comparable qualifications and/or experience for role advertised