Salesforce Engineering Lead

Engineering Lead

Salary: £90,000-£115,000 per year

Location: Glasgow/ London / Liverpool

Working Pattern: Hybrid

About the Role

The Salesforce Engineering Lead is responsible for the technical design, build leadership and architectural integrity of the company's Salesforce platform as the firm re platforms the end-to-end client lifecycle onto Salesforce Financial Services Cloud (and related capability).

This role will provide hands on technical leadership across Salesforce development, integrations and an external consultancy during the transformation phase. The role is a key member of the Salesforce platform team, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, compliant and aligned to Salesforce best practice.

What you'll be responsible for

Own the end to end technical architecture for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, ensuring alignment with the target state client lifecycle, regulatory obligations and enterprise architecture standards.
Translate complex business and regulatory requirements into scalable, well governed Salesforce solutions, balancing declarative configuration with robust programmatic development.
Lead hands on development across Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows and integrations, setting coding standards and design patterns for the wider team.
Act as the technical authority for FSC data modelling, including Person Accounts, households, relationship groups, rollups and compliant data sharing…etc
Design and govern integrations between Salesforce and downstream / upstream systems using modern API led and event driven patterns.
Provide technical leadership during the transformation programme, working alongside a delivery partner and ensuring effective knowledge transfer to the in house team.
Establish and enforce CI/CD, environment and release management standards using Copado, ensuring quality, traceability and auditability.
Mentor and coach Salesforce Developers / Application Engineers, providing code reviews, design guidance and technical escalation.
Partner closely with the Product team to shape delivery roadmaps, manage technical risk and prioritise platform improvements.
Ensure platform solutions support long term operational sustainability.
Lead AI native SDLC working practices within the Salesforce development process. Using agentic coding practices to improve throughput and stability of the delivery system end to endAbout you

Significant experience designing and delivering enterprise Salesforce solutions in complex, regulated environments.
Deep hands-on expertise in Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, data model and automation capabilities.
Strong programmatic Salesforce development skills, including Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL/SOSL and Flows.
Proven experience designing and governing Salesforce integrations using REST/SOAP APIs and middleware.
Strong understanding of Salesforce security, sharing models, governor limits and performance optimisation.
Experience with Data360 and Marketing Cloud Engagement/Advanced
Experience leading development teams and acting as a technical design authority.
Hands on experience with CI/CD and release management, ideally using Copado.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions to non technical audiences.
Salesforce Platform Developer I certification
Evidence of interest and skills growth in agentic SDLC working practices, ideally in the salesforce ecosystem but at least via experimentation outside of workPreferred

Experience delivering Salesforce solutions within wealth management, asset management or financial services.
Experience with OmniStudio (FlexCards, OmniScripts, Integration Procedures) within an Industry Cloud context.
Exposure to Salesforce Data Cloud (Data 360) concepts, including data ingestion, identity resolution and activation.
Experience supporting or migrating from Marketing Cloud Engagement to Marketing Cloud Next.
Salesforce Platform Developer II and Financial Services Cloud Accredited Professional certification.Damia Group Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept our Data Protection Policy which can be found on our website.

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