Salesforce Tech Lead

6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £630 per day

London based - hybrid working - 2/3 days on site

Must either have current NPPV3 or held previously

Clearance

NPPV3 clearance is required. Candidates must confirm whether they currently hold, or are willing to undergo, NPPV3 clearance, and provide confirmation of any current or previous SC clearance.

Summary

Salesforce Tech Lead / Lead Developer with 5+ years' experience delivering complex, production‑quality Salesforce solutions across the full development lifecycle, from discovery and design through build, test, deployment, and live support.

Ideally experienced in public sector delivery, operating within structured governance, assurance, and security constraints, and comfortable working within Agile delivery models.

A strong communicator and engineering leader, capable of engaging effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders, translating business requirements into clear technical solutions, and providing accurate estimates, delivery forecasts, and clear status updates throughout the lifecycle.

Highly motivated with a proactive problem‑solving mindset, able to identify issues early, drive resolution, and actively manage technical and delivery risks to protect quality, timelines, and outcomes. Demonstrates a strong personal commitment to engineering excellence, code quality, and continuous improvement.

Hands‑on contributor with a proven track record of leading by example, supporting design elaboration, conducting peer reviews, mentoring junior developers, and driving consistent standards across teams and environments.

Key Responsibilities & Capabilities

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Lead and contribute to the design and build of scalable, secure Salesforce solutions, ensuring alignment to architectural standards and best practices.
• Provide clear technical leadership, supporting solution design, breaking down complex requirements, and guiding implementation approaches.
• Own and contribute to accurate estimation of development effort, proactively managing dependencies, assumptions, and delivery risks.
• Maintain clear and timely communication with delivery leads, product owners, and stakeholders, providing progress updates, risks, and mitigation actions.

Quality & Problem Solving

• Drive a strong quality‑first engineering culture, ensuring solutions are well‑designed, testable, maintainable, and production‑ready.
• Identify and resolve technical issues early, escalating risks appropriately and proposing pragmatic, value‑focused solutions.
• Actively contribute to peer code reviews, ensuring consistency, performance, security, and maintainability standards are met.
• Support continuous improvement of development practices, tooling, and ways of working.

Collaboration & Mentoring

• Work closely with architects, testers, Dev/DevOps, and product teams to ensure end‑to‑end delivery success.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, supporting skills development, knowledge sharing, and technical confidence.
• Contribute positively to Agile ceremonies, design workshops, and planning sessions, helping teams deliver predictably and transparently.

Specific Skills & Experience Sought

• Salesforce core configuration, including objects, fields, validation rules, sharing rules, and Lightning page layouts
• Salesforce Service Cloud configuration
• Experience Cloud site design and build
• Advanced Flow (low‑code) design and optimisation
• Confident working with Apex (pro‑code) to extend platform capability where appropriate
• Familiarity with custom Lightning Web Component (LWC) development
• Experience with unmanaged packaging and SFDX / Git‑based source control, including deployment across multi‑sandbox environments

Disclaimer

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.