Lead, Technical

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

We are seeking a talented and innovative Salesforce Technical Lead to join our team in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the Salesforce Technical Lead, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality Salesforce Solutions against required standards and timelines, that meet our clients' needs and drive our organisation's success, through the team of Salesforce Software Engineers / Developers that you will be responsible for.

• Be responsible for the end-to-end technical delivery of the solution.
• Be responsible for the technical design of the solution.
• Be responsible for attaining support and approval of the solution through the bank’s governance process.
• Ensure configurations and code follow our approved standards.
• Drive standardisation and reuse of solutions.
• Ensure necessary refactoring of solutions to ensure they remain performant, secure, reusable, maintainable and in line with our architectures.
• Be responsible for the overall quality of the solution.
• Interpret business requirements.
• Define technical tasks.
• Perform end to end testing.
• Supporting and troubleshooting technical questions, software and database issues
• Lead, manage and mentor Salesforce software and quality engineers across your delivery teams to build and improve the engineering capability.

The Salesforce Technical Lead will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of all technical solution delivery (engineering aspects) in the identified delivery teams, adhering to set standards, practices and quality expectations.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• Salesforce Certifications: Platform Developer I & II, Platform App Builder, Experience Cloud Consultant, Copado Fundamentals 1 and 2

Experience: 

• 8-10 years' broad experience in software development, including 3-4 years in Salesforce development (Experience Cloud and Service Cloud)
• 1-2 years' experience managing a team of 10+ technical experts
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Experience in Salesforce solution design, DevOps tools (e.g., Copado), and best practices for Salesforce coding
• Strong leadership skills with a track record in capability building and coaching technical staff
• Proficiency in end-to-end technical delivery, quality assurance, and fostering a learning environment within the team

Behavioural Competencies:

• Team Leadership
• Fostering Teamwork
• Leading by example
• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Developing Expertise
• Producing Output
• Risk Management

Technical Competencies: 

• Apex
• Lightening Web Components (LWC)
• VF Pages
• Aura Components
• Copado
• Platform Development 
• App Builder
• FSC Knowledge 
• ffLib framework
• SOQL, SOSL, and Salesforce APIs
• Integration patterns and data modelling
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Scalability and Reusability
• Reliability and Resilience, including Web Security Knowledge
• Agile Engineering
• API Engineering
• Automation