Salesforce Solution Lead - £70,000 + Benefits
Location: Hybrid (2-3 days per week from home)
We're looking for a talented and driven Salesforce Solution Lead to take ownership of Salesforce solution design, delivery, and platform health within a large, fast-moving environment. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys both building and guiding, balancing technical excellence with collaboration and continuous improvement.
As part of an agile engineering community, you'll play a key part in shaping and maintaining the Salesforce ecosystem and its integration with wider enterprise systems, ensuring best practice, high performance, and ongoing platform evolution.
What you'll do
* Design, develop, and deliver high-quality Salesforce solutions that meet coding, performance, and security standards.
* Provide production support investigating and resolving incidents, ensuring platform stability and reliability.
* Use a mix of low-code (Flows, declarative tools) and custom development (Apex, Lightning Web Components) to deliver business solutions.
* Develop and maintain batch jobs, triggers, and custom components.
* Champion quality through automated testing, design reviews, and continuous improvement practices.
* Collaborate closely with developers, admins, and stakeholders to drive shared learning and best practice adoption.
* Take collective ownership for the Salesforce platform, proactively improving performance and availability.
* Estimate and plan solution delivery activities accurately within an agile framework.
What you'll bring
* Proven experience in a similar Salesforce engineering or solution leadership role.
* Salesforce certifications such as Platform Developer I and Salesforce Administrator (or equivalent experience).
* Hands-on experience across the Salesforce ecosystem - ideally including Financial Services Cloud.
* Strong understanding of Clean Code, SOLID principles, Design Patterns, and Salesforce best practices.
* Expertise with Apex, SOQL/SOSL, Flows, Lightning Web Components, Triggers, and Azure DevOps.
* A passion for continuous learning - whether through blogging, open-source contributions, or tech community involvement.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and work across diverse teams.
* A growth mindset and curiosity to innovate and find optimal technical solutions.
Join a culture that invests in people, encourages curiosity, and empowers engineers to make a real impact.
If this role sounds like your next career move click "APPLY" OR email lauren.hamer@oliverjames.com