Principal Salesforce Engineer – AI-Driven Platform Leader

Schroders; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Schroders is seeking a hands-on Salesforce Engineer to design, build, and deliver scalable Salesforce solutions across Public and Private businesses. You will translate complex requirements into robust technical designs and champion DevOps practices.

You will own engineering standards, lead integrations, and mentor other engineers while leveraging Salesforce Einstein and AI capabilities to improve client engagement and data quality. Flexible working is supported.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Salesforce development in large financial services orgs.
• Apex, LWC, Flows, declarative configuration proficiency.
• Strong integration with REST/SOAP and middleware like MuleSoft.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and hands-on development on Salesforce platform.
• Own engineering standards, code quality, and platform integrity.
• Design robust integrations linking Salesforce with upstream/downstream systems.
• Drive CI/CD maturity with automated tests and release management.
• Deliver proof-of-value builds to test ideas and de-risk delivery.
• Mentor engineers and coach team on best practices in Salesforce engineering.

Skills

Apex

Lightning Web Components

Flows

Declarative configuration

REST/SOAP integration

CI/CD tooling

MuleSoft integration

Git

Copado

Azure DevOps

Education

Salesforce Platform Developer I

Salesforce Platform Developer II

Salesforce Architect certifications

Tools

MuleSoft

Git

Copado

Gearset

Azure DevOps

Job description

Schroders is seeking a hands-on Salesforce Engineer to design, build, and deliver scalable Salesforce solutions across Public and Private businesses. You will translate complex requirements into robust technical designs and champion DevOps practices.

You will own engineering standards, lead integrations, and mentor other engineers while leveraging Salesforce Einstein and AI capabilities to improve client engagement and data quality. Flexible working is supported.