Salesforce Development Team Lead / Architect Location: London (Hybrid) Contract: Permanent Level: Senior / Lead Overview A large, regulated organisation is delivering a significant Salesforce transformation centred on Salesforce Financial Services Cloud .
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We are looking for a Salesforce Development Team Lead with strong architectural capability to lead day-to-day engineering delivery, set technical direction, and build a high-performing in-house Salesforce team.
This role combines hands-on development, technical leadership, and people leadership, sitting within a Salesforce Centre of Excellence and working closely with Product, Architecture and delivery partners.
The Role You will act as the technical lead for the Salesforce development team, remaining close to the code while owning design quality, delivery standards and team capability.
While you will influence platform architecture, your primary focus is ensuring developers are productive, solutions are well-built, and releases are reliable and compliant.
Key Responsibilities Lead and support a team of Salesforce developers through hands-on technical leadership Set clear coding standards, design patterns and best practices across Apex, LWC and Flows Remain actively involved in build activity, including complex development and technical problem solving Own technical solution design for user stories and features, ensuring alignment with wider platform architecture Act as escalation point for technical challenges and production issues Conduct code reviews, provide mentoring and coach developers to raise overall team capability Drive adoption of CI/CD and release management practices (e.g.