Salesforce Technical Lead

FDJ UNITED; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the UK is seeking a Delivery Lead/Scrum Master to drive the delivery across multiple teams. This role requires a proven track record in mentoring teams, managing multiple backlogs, and ensuring robust technical delivery in a complex environment. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, experience in Agile methodologies, and a passion for continuous improvement, ensuring teams meet business objectives and quality standards. This position offers the chance to lead and innovate within a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Delivery Lead/Scrum Master in complex environments.
• Ability to plan, forecast, and report using key metrics effectively.
• Experience mentoring other Delivery Leads and Scrum Masters.

Responsibilities

• Drive the delivery of multiple teams to production.
• Ensure all quarter milestones are planned and analysed.
• Facilitate improvements in team processes.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Team leadership

Effective communication

Technical delivery

Process improvement

Tools

Git

Jira

PostgreSQL

React

Job description

Role Overview

Delivery Lead / Scrum Master - Drive the delivery of multiple teams to production, coordinating across teams and backlogs.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the delivery of multiple teams to production, coordinating across teams and backlogs.
• Plan and distribute work, manage estimations and workload forecast with technical and business stakeholders, rely on key metrics and reports for decision making.
• Ensure that all quarter milestones are planned, analysed, blockers & dependencies are managed while keeping a channel of open communication between teams.
• Ensure agile team meetings are organised and that the team is represented in all relevant meetings, promoting collaboration with other teams.
• Be the first point of contact for the business and other development teams, being knowledgeable about your team's products.
• Motivate the team and keep up the team spirit, ensuring all team members feel important and part of the team. Actively seek to continuously improve user experience and service performance.
• Strong proficiency in Agile methodologies with a proven ability to tailor and adapt processes to suit the needs of different teams, ensuring a culture of flexibility and innovation.
• Ability to facilitate and continuously improve the team's process. Ensure the teams are aligned with Kindred Development processes, actively seek to develop and enhance the agile process used by the team.
• Delivery of tasks on time and taking responsibility for your work and the deliveries of the team.
• Robustness of technical delivery, high performance under load, low number of incidents.
• Ability to maintain the balance between requirements and bug fixes, ensuring technical debt is addressed.
• Effective communication within the team and the stakeholders.
• Incidents are properly prioritised and addressed within the team.
• Gains technical as well as business domain knowledge and is willing to share and spread that knowledge.

Technical Stack

• Agile and lean values.
• Best development practices.
• Microservices and event-driven architecture.
• ES6 and ES7 Javascript, React, JSON.
• .Net core.
• Oracle, PostgreSQL, Solace, Redis.
• CI/CD – Continuous Delivery (Git, Jira, Teamcity, Octopus, Jenkins).

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience mentoring and coaching Delivery Leads and Scrum Masters.
• A proven track record of successfully delivering software as a Delivery Lead / Scrum Master in a technically complex environment, ensuring the business objectives and quality standards are met.
• Ability to plan and forecast for the team's deliverables using key metrics, report on them effectively and possess excellent decision‑making skills. Experience in a highly transactional distributed architecture and understanding of microservice principles.
• A passion for continual improvement, demonstrated in previous roles.
• Previous experience delivering BCBS239 transformation programmes.