Salesforce Forward Deployed Engineer (Public Sector)
UK Wide | Perm | Up to £75,000 + Benefits + Bonus | Remote + travel to client or nearest office on request | ILR or British passport required
We're partnering with a leading digital transformation consultancy seeking a Salesforce Forward Deployed Engineer to help deliver next-generation AI-powered solutions across the UK Public Sector.
This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of Salesforce, Agentforce, Generative AI, and Public Sector Innovation, building secure and scalable solutions for government, defence, healthcare, emergency services, and critical national infrastructure organisations.
The Opportunity
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building, and deploying intelligent Salesforce solutions powered by AI. You'll work within highly regulated environments, helping organisations unlock the potential of Agentforce, Data Cloud, Einstein AI, and enterprise-scale integrations while maintaining the highest standards of security, governance, and compliance.
What You'll Be Doing
- Design and build AI-powered Salesforce solutions using Agentforce, Einstein AI, Prompt Builder, Model Builder, and Data Cloud.
- Develop intelligent agents, copilots, automated workflows, and AI-driven digital services.
- Integrate Salesforce with enterprise platforms through MuleSoft, APIs, AppExchange solutions, and modern integration patterns.
- Design grounding and retrieval strategies to deliver trusted AI outputs and improve explainability.
- Develop monitoring, governance, and evaluation frameworks for AI solutions in production.
- Work closely with architects, consultants, and technical specialists across large-scale transformation programmes.
- Engage directly with senior stakeholders to drive innovation and service improvement through AI-enabled technologies.
What We're Looking For
- Strong integration experience with enterprise platforms and modern architectures.
- Experience working in large-scale enterprise, public sector, or highly regulated environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Strong Salesforce development experience across one or more of:
- Service Cloud
- Experience Cloud
- Industries Cloud
- Field Service
Hands-on experience with:
- Apex
- Flow
- Salesforce APIs and integration patterns
Experience building AI-powered Salesforce capabilities, including:
Practical knowledge of:
- Prompt Engineering
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- AI Evaluation & Monitoring
Nice to Have
- Experience within Government, Defence, Healthcare, Emergency Services, Utilities, or Critical National Infrastructure.
- Existing SC Clearance.
- Experience with MuleSoft and event-driven architecture.
- Knowledge of MCP, vector databases, embeddings, or Python-based AI tooling.
Salesforce certifications such as:
- Agentforce Specialist
- Public Sector Solutions
Why Apply?
- Work on some of the UK's most innovative Salesforce and AI transformation programmes.
- Help shape how AI is adopted across public sector organisations.
- Build cutting-edge Agentforce and Data Cloud solutions in highly complex environments.
- Collaborate with industry-leading architects, engineers, and AI specialists.
- Play a key role in designing trusted, secure, and scalable AI-powered services used at national scale.
Interested in combining Salesforce development, AI engineering, and public sector innovation? Get in touch to learn more.
Security Requirements
Candidates must be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC) and have lived continuously in the UK for the last five years.
Office locations:
England
- London
- South East England
(Woking, Worthing, Abingdon)
- West Midlands (Birmingham, Telford)
- North West England (Manchester)
- Yorkshire and the Humber (Leeds, Sheffield)
- South West England (Bristol, Bath)
- North East England (Newcastle)
Scotland
- Highlands and Islands (Inverness, Nairn)
- South West Scotland / Central Belt (Glasgow)