Salesforce Technical Lead

TEKsystems; Thatcham; Hybrid; GBP 92,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Salesforce Technical Lead for a contract role in the UK. The role focuses on leading technical design and delivery of Salesforce solutions, with hands-on Apex and Lightning Web Components work, and complex integrations.

You will mentor a distributed development team to deliver secure, scalable architectures suitable for multi-market deployments. The position is hybrid, with 3 days onsite in South Buckinghamshire and project work spanning up to 80 markets.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Salesforce Technical Lead or senior Salesforce engineer.
• Hands-on Apex development expertise.
• Strong LWC and Salesforce platform knowledge.
• Experience designing integrations with other systems.
• Solid understanding of secure, scalable Salesforce architecture.
• Experience Cloud knowledge.
• Ability to lead and mentor distributed teams.
• Ability to design multi-market, product-based architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery of Salesforce solutions with hands-on guidance in Apex and LWC.
• Review and design robust, scalable Salesforce architectures aligned with business goals.
• Embed security best practices to protect applications from threats.
• Guide distributed teams with design specs, standards, and implementation guidance.
• Ensure conformity with architecture and coding standards across markets.
• Identify risks and drive mitigation plans.
• Define reusable patterns and integration standards for faster delivery.
• Develop and maintain architecture roadmaps and governance for product evolution.

Skills

Apex

Lightning Web Components

Salesforce Integrations

Salesforce Architecture

Security & Compliance

Multi-market Experience

Team Leadership

Code Reviews

Job description

Job Title: Salesforce Technical Lead

Type: Contract, Inside IR35

Duration: 6 months

Location: Hybrid, 3 days a week onsite in South Buckinghamshire

Job Description

This role leads the technical design and delivery of Salesforce solutions, with a strong focus on Apex, Lightning Web Components and complex integrations. You will guide and mentor a distributed development team, ensuring secure, scalable and product-based architectures that can be rapidly deployed and localised across multiple markets.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical delivery of Salesforce solutions, providing hands-on guidance in Apex, Lightning Web Components and integrations.
• Design and review the current solution architecture to ensure it is robust, scalable and aligned with business objectives.
• Make the application secure from external cyber security threats by embedding secure architecture patterns and best practices.
• Guide development teams with detailed design specifications, architecture standards and implementation guidelines.
• Ensure the team's implementation aligns with the recommended architecture, Salesforce best practices and coding standards.
• Identify technical risks proactively, communicate their impact and drive effective mitigation plans.
• Ensure the application is scalable and follows secure, modular architecture patterns suitable for multi-market deployments.
• Define and drive the evolution of the application towards a product-based architecture to support long‑term ownership.
• Establish reusable design patterns, frameworks and integration standards to accelerate delivery across different markets.
• Design solutions for rapid deployment and localisation across up to 80 markets with minimal customisation.
• Drive standardisation and simplification of the solution to reduce implementation, support and operational costs.
• Define a target architecture that supports multi‑market scalability, maintainability and sustainable product growth.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy and regulatory requirements while maintaining business agility.
• Create and maintain architecture roadmaps and governance processes to support continuous improvement and product evolution.
• Collaborate closely with cross‑functional stakeholders to ensure technical solutions meet functional, non‑functional and regulatory requirements.

Essential Skills

• Proven experience as a Salesforce Technical Lead or similar senior Salesforce engineering role.
• Strong hands‑on expertise with Apex development.
• Extensive experience with Lightning Web Components (LWC) and the broader Lightning platform.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing Salesforce integrations with other systems.
• Solid understanding of Salesforce architecture, including secure and scalable design patterns.
• experience with experience Cloud (formerly Community Cloud).
• Ability to technically lead and mentor a distributed team of around developers
• Strong background in Salesforce development and engineering best practices.
• experience designing solutions that comply with security, privacy and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to create and maintain architecture roadmaps and governance processes.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• experience designing Salesforce solutions for multi‑market or global deployments.
• background in product‑based architecture and long‑term product life cycle management.
• experience defining reusable frameworks, design patterns and integration standards.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to balance standardisation and localisation needs to support rapid deployment across multiple markets.

Location

Maidenhead, UK