Salesforce Technical Lead

In Team Digital, we’re planning for a future where the technology solutions we co-create and design enable us to achieve our goal of protecting our greatest natural resource and allowing our customers, communities and the environment to thrive.

As a team, our vision is to create an everyday digital experience for the people we serve - our customers - by putting them at the heart of everything we do. As part of our award-winning team, you’ll help the business become an intelligent, connected organisation to deliver our digital transformation and turnaround.

As a Salesforce Technical Lead, you will be working within the ERP & Integration (Salesforce DevOps Platform Team) to manage and develop the Salesforce platform, overseeing the Salesforce development and ensuring the integration, development, and maintenance of both new and existing features across both Projects and Product Teams. Within this position, you will be seen as a thought leader in the team providing guidance to internal team members and SI partners while acting as a SME facilitating design discovery seasons to understand unique business needs. In addition to team support, this position plays a crucial role in assisting the ERP & Integration Platform Lead in executing the strategic roadmap.

**What you’ll be doing as a Salesforce Technical Lead**
- Identify and proactively manage key risk areas.
- Manage security and data considerations.
- Lead the scope and evaluation of new requirements.
- Ensure that deliverables that are ready for deployment are fit for purpose, and meet the standards, quality targets and requirements.
- Own and produce strategies and roadmaps for the platform.
- Build out the salesforce function and establish best practices.
- Assist In production incidents or problems.
- Provide technical coaching to the team and lead technical discussions, guiding other developers.
- Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of policy and process within the team to promote best practices and adoption of industry frameworks including Agile and DevOps.

Base Location: Reading - Hybrid.

Working Pattern: 36 Hours.

**What you should bring to the role**

We want to bring together a team of brilliant tech minds with game-changing ideas. We’re looking for people who will help us re-imagine the way we work and the way we get things done:

- A truly digital mindset. Open to collaboration. Open to risk. Open to new ways of doing things.
- Obsessed with data. Obsessed with excellence.
- People who think and behave differently to the way we do. People who don’t want to just be another cog in the machine.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing Salesforce solutions.
- Demonstrated development expertise including Java, Javascript, APEX, Visualforce, APIs, Integration and lightning framework.
- Experience in implementing, customising, optimising and troubleshooting Salesforce Field Service.
- Strong experience with unit, integration and performance testing in Salesforce.
- Ability to translate business requirements into functional solutions within Salesforce.
- Proficient in using Visual Studio Code, Salesforce CLI and Extensions.

**What’s in it for you?**
- Offering between £75,000 - £85,000 per annum, depending on experience.
- Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
- Car allowance.
- Annual bonus.
- Private medical healthcare.
- Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
- Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of your and your family’s health and well-being, and your finances - from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Find out more about our benefits and perks

**Who are we?**

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

**Learn more about our**purpose and values

**Working at Thames Wate**r**

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

Whether you’re interested in a role in one of our call centres or science labs, we’re looking for people like you with real passion and a burning desire to make things better.

So, if you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you ev