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Manchester - UK

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Not Disclosed

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1 Vacancy

Job Description

About us:
is a whole-of-health digital partner that guides organisations and their people to thrive delivering clinically backed digital health mental health and wellbeing solutions.

Our HealthTech delivers digital transformation for Insurers Educators and Employers through Co-creation or seamlessly integrated out-of-the-box solutions that decrease digital fragmentation and engage empower and transform their peoples lives.

Established in 2018 by Stuart McGoldrick and Stephen Costello provides services internationally to over 7.2m insurance members 3000 corporate clients 60 universities and 650000 university students. currently employs over 350 people.

Our vision is to change and save as many lives as possible.
Role Brief:
The Lead Salesforce Developer will serve as the senior technical authority and team lead for our Salesforce engineering team. This is a hands-on technical role for an individual with a deep holistic understanding of the Salesforce ecosystem its capabilities and its limitations. You willbe responsible forprovidingarchitectural guidance driving technical best practices and mentoring a team of developers.
Beyond internal leadership you will act as a key technical consultant engaging in external-facing calls to assess project complexity provide accurate estimations and inform strategic decisions regarding effort and resource allocation. This role is crucial for ensuring our Salesforce solutions are scalable maintainable and perfectly aligned with our business objectives while also fostering a clear growth path for junior team members.
Responsibilities:
  • Technical Leadership & Architecture:
    • Serve as the primary technical lead for a team of Salesforce engineersprovidingarchitectural guidance and hands-on solutioning.
    • Establish and enforce development best practices ensuringhigh standardsfor code quality consistency and performance.
    • Identifyand articulate technical trade-offs of the platform guiding the team and stakeholders toward robust and scalable solutions.
  • DevOps & Engineering Practices:
    • Design implement andmaintaina robust CI/CD pipeline for Salesforce ensuring alignment with the processes of the wider engineering organization.
    • Define and govern key development processes including branching strategies code review standards feature flag implementation and architectural patterns.
    • Establish an efficient process for spinning up and managing Salesforce environments providing clear definitions and purposes for each (e.g. Development QA UAT Production).
  • Development Lifecycle & Governance:
    • Define and implement a structured feature development lifecycle from request intake to deployment.
    • Establish clear processes and templates for documenting change requests tracking status and ownership and ensuring requirements are captured comprehensively using specification forms diagrams andmockups.
  • Team Development & Mentorship:
    • Mentor junior engineers manage workload distribution and act as the primary escalation point for technical challenges.
    • Design and implement clear processes and guidelines to support the onboarding and career progression of developers within the team.
  • Project Scoping & Estimation:
    • Join pre-sales and project discovery calls with external stakeholders to rapidly assess technical requirements and project complexity.
    • Provideaccurateand reliable estimations for development effort timelines and resource allocation.
    • Develop technical proposals and proofs-of-concept needed for informed project decision-making.
  • Solution Delivery & Integration:
    • Translate complex business requirements into elegant effective and scalable technical solutions on the Salesforce platform.
    • Proactivelyidentifyopportunities for improvement and potential integrations with other systems to enhance the platforms value.
    • Work closely with solution architects product managers and other engineering teams to ensure technical alignment and delivery excellence.
  • Vendor & Quality Management:
    • Oversee the performance and delivery of outsourced resources and third-party vendors ensuring all contributions adhere to our quality standards and best practices.
Requirements:
  • Proven experience in a senior or lead Salesforce Developer/Engineer role.
  • Deepexpertiseacross the Salesforce platform (e.g. Sales Cloud Service Cloud Health Cloud) and a strong understanding of its declarative and programmatic capabilities.
  • Demonstrable experience with Salesforce integrations (APIs middleware) and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD source control).
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience in a client-facing or consulting capacity with a proven ability to scope projects and estimate effort accurately.
  • A passion for mentoring anda track recordof helping junior developers grow their skills.
What are the benefits of working at
  • Full time permanent contract
  • Competitive salary (Dependent on experience).
  • In-office remote or hybrid working options
  • 25 days annual leave
  • 24/7 EAP and a wide range of health and wellbeing supports
  • Extensive list of employee perks and benefits

Employment Type

Full-Time

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