Location: UK - Hatfield Job-ID: 216873 Contract type: Standard Business Unit: Information Technology
Salesforce Technical Product Owner
Hybrid Hatfield Herts
Life on the team
We are seeking a highly skilled Salesforce Technical Product Owner to help drive the strategic direction development and optimization of our Salesforce platform. This role will bridge the gap between business requirements and technical execution ensuring scalable secure and high-performance solutions. The ideal candidate will possess deep Salesforce expertise strong leadership skills and the ability to collaborate across various teams to deliver value-driven enhancements.
What youll do
Strategy planning and design
- Act as a primary collaboration and handshake point from CTO architects to Product team in architecture and design.
- Serve as a Salesforce SME in cross-system design discussions alongside CTO architects and contribute to high level design and reference architecture.
- Evaluate new tools managed packages and innovation ideas.
- Work with Head of Product Management GIS and Business Stakeholders in the definition and implementation of new Salesforce operating model roadmap and agile ways of working.
- Stay up to date with Salesforce releases best practices and industry trends to maximize platform capabilities
Product Delivery and Management
- Act as a key liaison between GIS & business stakeholders development teams functional consultants and Salesforce administrators in product delivery.
- Work closely with developers and architects to design and implement scalable and efficient Salesforce solutions.
- Translate business problems architectural and epic-level requirements into product solution design and/or options analysis and recommendations.
- Lead technical product discussions between IT teams and translate technical designs into business language for stakeholders.
- Manage the flow of application enhancement and small change requests working with Business Product Owners to develop prioritize and manage the product backlog.
- Identify and document technical requirements and add these to the product backlog.
- Support developers and functional consultants with lower-level design documents.
- Contribute to backlog grooming sprint planning and Agile ceremonies to ensure successful delivery of enhancements.
- Perform configuration and development as needed.
- Ensure data integrity security and compliance within the Salesforce environment.
- Monitor and evaluate system performance identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation.
- Manage relationships with third-party vendors and consultants as needed.
What youll need
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Business or a related field.
- Extensive experience as a Salesforce Technical Product Owner Architect Tech Lead or Developer.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture including Sales Cloud Service Cloud and CPQ (Configure Price Quote) implementations.
- Any experience with Revenue Cloud Advanced (RCA) and Agentforce would be highly beneficial.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
- Ability to write clear and concise epics user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce development configuration automation and integrations (APIs middleware etc.).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Salesforce certifications such as Salesforce Certified Administrator Platform Developer or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) are highly preferred.
- Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement.
- Knowledge of DevOps processes and CI/CD practices for Salesforce development e.g. Gearset Azure DevOps.
- Background in enterprise-level digital transformation projects.
If you are passionate about driving innovation and excellence in Salesforce solutions we invite you to apply and become a key contributor to our digital transformation journey.
About us
We are a leading independent technology and services provider trusted by large corporate and public sector organisations. We are a responsible business that believes in winning together for our people and our planet. We help our customers to source transform and manage their technology infrastructure to deliver digital transformation enabling people and their business.
Our business may be about technology but first of all its about people
With over 20000 people across 22 countries we are proud of our inclusive culture - where everyone can thrive feel valued and truly belong.
As an equal opportunities employer were committed to ensuring fair and equal access to opportunities for all. Your application will be considered on its merits regardless of your age disability ethnicity gender identity or any other characteristics protected by law. What matters most to us is that you share our vision and values and bring the experience and skills were looking for.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and accept applications in alternative formats. We also guarantee to interview applicants who have a disability.
If you share our values and want to make a meaningful impact in a supportive forward-thinking environment - wed love to hear from you!