Salesforce Technical Lead - 12-month FTC
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Salesforce Technical Lead - 12-month FTC
About the opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Technical Lead to join a collaborative Transformation & Technology team during an exciting period of digital change.
This role offers the opportunity to take a leading role in shaping, delivering and improving Salesforce solutions that support business growth, operational efficiency and exceptional customer experiences.
You will provide technical leadership across the Salesforce platform, combining hands-on development expertise with the ability to understand business challenges, translate requirements into effective solutions and communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
Key facts:
Contract: 12-month fixed term
Salary: circa £55,000 per annum
Location: Hybrid – home working with approximately 4 days per month in the Buckinghamshire office
The role
As Salesforce Technical Lead, you will be responsible for the technical design, development and ongoing optimisation of Salesforce solutions across CRM, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud.
You will work closely with product owners, business analysts, internal teams and external partners to understand business needs, define technical approaches and deliver scalable, secure and maintainable solutions.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will be expected to design and deliver solutions end-to-end, from understanding requirements through to development, testing, deployment and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities will include:
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Designing and delivering Salesforce solutions from initial concept through to implementation
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Providing technical leadership across Salesforce CRM, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud
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Developing and configuring Salesforce functionality using:
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Apex
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Lightning Web Components (LWC)
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Salesforce Flows
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Marketing Cloud automations, journeys and data extensions
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Translating business requirements into practical Salesforce solutions, explaining technical considerations clearly to non-technical stakeholders
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Working collaboratively with product owners, business teams and technology colleagues to understand needs and deliver value
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Designing and supporting Salesforce integrations using APIs and middleware solutions
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Ensuring solutions follow Salesforce best practices around architecture, security, data quality and maintainability
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Supporting release management, testing, deployment and CI/CD processes
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Conducting code reviews and ensuring high-quality development standards
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Troubleshooting issues, supporting incident resolution and identifying opportunities for improvement
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Maintaining clear technical documentation, including solution designs, configuration notes and integration details
About you
You will be an experienced Salesforce professional who can demonstrate strong technical capability alongside excellent communication skills.
You will ideally be able to talk through a Salesforce solution you have designed and delivered end-to-end — explaining the business challenge, your technical approach, the implementation and the outcome.
You will bring:
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Strong hands-on Salesforce development experience
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Proven experience designing and delivering Salesforce solutions
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Strong Apex development skills, including writing clean, maintainable code and supporting testing
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Experience building solutions using Salesforce Flow and Lightning Web Components (LWC)
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Experience across Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud
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Ideally, experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud
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Experience integrating Salesforce with external platforms through APIs
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The ability to understand business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions
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Confidence communicating with both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders
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Experience working in Agile delivery environments
What’s on offer
You’ll join an organisation that values innovation, collaboration and delivering meaningful digital improvements.
This is an opportunity to make a real impact on a key Salesforce platform while working alongside talented colleagues across technology and the wider organisation.
Interested?
To arrange a confidential conversation with FJWilson Talent before applying, you can email us at resourcingteam at fjwilson com
*Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your CV as early as possible. Our email address is resourcingteam at fjwilson com
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The services advertised by FJWilson Talent Services are those of a recruitment business.
We encourage applications from all sections of the community. Furthermore, qualifications and/or experience identified are indicative. We will consider applications from candidates who have comparable qualifications and/or experience for role advertised
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5 recommandations générées par notre IA pour maximiser vos chances.
⭐ Lead your CV with a Personal Statement that explicitly names Salesforce Technical Lead experience, citing Apex and LWC — the advert lists these as core hands-on requirements.
📊 Quantify your Salesforce delivery: e.g. 'Delivered 3 Sales Cloud implementations reducing manual processing time by 40%, supporting 200+ users across 5 business units.'
🔗 Dedicate a skills section to your Salesforce stack (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Flows, LWC, Apex) so ATS keyword matching is immediate — the advert names each explicitly.
🎯 Highlight any experience translating business requirements into Salesforce solutions for non-technical stakeholders, as the advert stresses this bridging capability throughout.
🚀 Include a bullet on CI/CD, release management or deployment processes — the advert calls these out specifically, and many Salesforce CVs omit them.
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3 bullets générés par notre IA pour cette offre, alignés sur ses mots-clés ATS.
Ajoutez ces 3 bullets sous votre expérience la plus récente :
- •Architected and delivered a Sales Cloud and Service Cloud consolidation for 150 users, reducing duplicate data records by 35% and cutting case resolution time from 4 days to 2.5 days.
- •Built 12 Marketing Cloud automated journeys using data extensions and AMPscript, increasing email engagement rates by 28% across a 500,000-subscriber database.
- •Led CI/CD pipeline implementation for a 6-developer Salesforce team using Salesforce DX and GitHub Actions, reducing deployment errors by 45% over 3 release cycles.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
The Guardian's Salesforce Technical Lead role sits at exactly the intersection of hands-on Apex and LWC development and cross-functional technical leadership that defines my career to date. Having delivered end-to-end Salesforce solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud, I am confident I can contribute immediately to your Transformation & Technology team during this period of digital change.
My background in Salesforce architecture spans designing scalable integrations via REST APIs and middleware, building Marketing Cloud journeys with data extensions, and enforcing CI/CD release standards through structured code reviews. I have consistently translated complex technical requirements into clear, maintainable solutions for non-technical product owners and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment between delivery and business outcomes.
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10 questions générées à partir de cette offre.
Tecniche
- ›Walk us through a Salesforce solution you designed end-to-end — what were the architectural decisions you made and why?
- ›How do you approach designing integrations between Salesforce and external systems using APIs and middleware?
- ›Describe your experience with Marketing Cloud automations, journeys and data extensions — what is the most complex journey you have built?
- ›How do you enforce code quality standards during a Salesforce release cycle, and what does your CI/CD process look like?
- ›When would you choose a Salesforce Flow over an Apex trigger, and what factors influence that decision?
Comportamentali
- ›Tell me about a time you had to explain a complex Salesforce technical decision to a non-technical stakeholder — how did you approach it?
- ›Describe a situation where you identified a significant flaw in a Salesforce solution during a code review — what did you do?
- ›Give an example of when you had to balance technical best practices with tight delivery deadlines on a Salesforce project.
- ›Tell me about a time you collaborated with product owners and business analysts to shape requirements that evolved significantly mid-project.
- ›Describe a challenging Salesforce incident you had to resolve under pressure — what was your process and what was the outcome?
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Tell me about a time you had to explain a complex Salesforce technical decision to a non-technical stakeholder — how did you approach it?
Describe a situation where you identified a significant flaw in a Salesforce solution during a code review — what did you do?