Salesforce Technical Lead – Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8DB
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Competitive salary up to £85,000 per annum, depending on experience
What you’ll be doing as a Salesforce Technical Lead
As a Salesforce Technical Lead, you’ll lead the technical design, development and continuous improvement of our Salesforce platform within the ERP & Integration Salesforce DevOps Platform Team. You’ll work closely with architects, developers, product teams and stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure and high-performing Salesforce solutions aligned to business needs.
* Leading the scope, design and delivery of Salesforce solutions using Agile methodologies
* Translating business requirements and user stories into functional Salesforce solutions
* Providing technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to developers and partner teams
* Reviewing and assuring technical deliverables to ensure quality, security and best practice
* Supporting integrations, APIs, platform events and complex technical problem solving
* Owning CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes and release management
* Supporting production incidents, testing and Go-Live activities
* Driving continuous improvement across the Salesforce platform and DevOps practices
Base location: Reading – Clearwater Court
Working pattern or hours: 36 hours Monday to Friday, hybrid working
Necessary requirements for the role
Ability to travel to Thames Water sites as required
What you should bring to the role
The essential criteria to help you succeed in this role is:
* Strong hands‑on Salesforce development experience including Apex, Visualforce, Lightning and APIs
* Experience designing and delivering end‑to‑end Salesforce solutions
* Strong understanding of Salesforce Service Cloud and Field Service
* Experience with integrations, data models and custom objects
* Experience working within Agile and DevOps environmentsKnowledge of CI/CD pipelines, source control and deployment processes
* Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
* Salesforce certifications (Developer, Architect or Service Cloud Consultant) desirable
* Strong communication skills across technical and non‑technical audiences
Additional skills and experiences would be great to have
* Experience within utilities or regulated environments
* Salesforce administration experience including roles, users, SSO and MFA
* Experience with Salesforce CPQ or Commerce Cloud
* Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
* Experience in large‑scale digital transformation programmes
* Experience with automated testing tools and frameworks
What’s in it for you?
* Competitive salary up to £85,000 per annum depending on experience
* Annual Leave – 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
* Annual performance‑related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
* Generous Pension Scheme through AON
* Private Medical Health Care
* Access to a wide range of benefits to help you take care of your health, wellbeing and finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance
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