Principal Salesforce Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Royal Tunbridge Wells; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Principal Salesforce Engineer to join a major health insurance client. This role combines leadership and technical responsibilities, focusing on building Salesforce business solutions. Candidates should have significant experience in Salesforce, Azure, and .NET. The position allows for hybrid working with periodic visits to the London office and Tunbridge Wells office.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and leading high performing engineering teams.
• Expertise in Salesforce and its ecosystem.
• Experience with Azure and .NET services.
• Strong stakeholder management across various business domains.

Responsibilities

• Leading a product engineering team.
• Setting the engineering strategy.
• Hands-on with code review.
• Ensuring best practices are followed.
• Assessing new technology solutions.

Skills

Salesforce Vlocity

Azure

.NET

Stakeholder management

Agile environments

Tools

ADO pipelines

React

Job description

Overview

Principal Salesforce Engineer - Insurance - Permanent - Hybrid

We are seeking a number of Principal Salesforce Engineers to join our client, a major Health insurance client, on a permanent basis via the Robert Walters Consultancy, where you will help them build out their Salesforce centres Digital platform. This is a hands on leadership role and some key skills include Salesforce Vlocity, Azure and .NET is desirable.

The office location is Tunbridge Wells, however candidates can be based out of our client's other offices including Bristol, Manchester, leeds, Leicester and Glasgow.

Responsibilities

• Leading a product engineering team, taking ownership of meeting delivery outcomes as per our transformation roadmap
• Working within the Engineering Leadership Team to set the Engineering strategy and delivering on it
• Spending a large amount of your time being hands-on with the code, eg reviewing Pull Requests and ensuring best practices are followed by both full time and third-party engineers.
• Inspiring excellence in our teams and driving improvements in employee engagement, performance, and wellbeing.
• Representing engineering in your teams, working with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Business subject matter experts, to ensure our business commitments are delivered with quality and to expectation.
• Assessing new technology solutions
• Ensuring our non-functional requirements are met regarding performance, scalability, resilience, and GRC requirements (Information security, risk, industry regulation compliance)
• Helping to encourage collaboration and product ownership across developers and testers
• Ensuring continual shift of secure, quality and tested code activity left
• Working to improve and ensure implementation of our SDLC
• Working in a multi-vendor environment, providing direction and support to the delivery teams
• Improving our core DORA metrics and ensuring optimal flow through our systems and processes

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and leading high performing engineering teams
• Expertise in Salesforce and it's ecosystem, building business solutions using Salesforce and scaling them in large enterprises, integrating Salesforce based services with multiple different applications and architectures.
• Experience with Azure and .NET services, ADO pipelines, and React web applications are advantageous.
• Experience designing and delivering complex solutions to time and budget, being accountable for outcomes not output
• Proven experience in being responsible for application estates that manage high volumes delivering critical business value, with experience of doing this in the financial services sector a plus
• Strong stakeholder management across a variety of business domains
• Good understanding of current and emerging technologies and their potential to deliver business benefits
• Ability to translate business strategy into technical solutions and business requirements into technical design
• Experience working in Agile environments and a deep understanding of how to ensure optimum flow of work through the full SDLC
• Prior experience working in a product-centric organisation

*Please note that this role will be working on a hybrid model of 2 days office based. There is also an expectation that you'll travel to the London office 1 - 2 times per month and Tunbridge Wells office once per quarter.*

We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience.If you have a or long-term health condition and require adjustments to the recruitment process, our Adjustment Concierge Service is here to support you. Please reach out to us at (see below)to discuss further.

This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organizations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.