Lead Salesforce Developer

Salary: £70,000 - £84,000 per annum

Employment type: Permanent

Hours per week: 37

Reporting into: Head of Customer Systems

Department: IT

Remote Working: Primarily remote with monthly attendance at a UK site for team meetings.

Lead Salesforce Developer – Role Overview

As Lead Salesforce Developer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and evolving one of the University’s most important business platforms, leading the technical development of solutions that support our ambitious digital transformation programme.

You will partner with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, and the wider Business Systems team to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions. You will establish development standards, guide architectural decisions, mentor fellow developers, and champion modern development practices across the Salesforce ecosystem.

You will also influence the University’s long‑term Salesforce strategy, leading integrations, DevOps, data architecture, and platform governance.

Essential Requirements

• Significant hands‑on Salesforce development expertise, with Salesforce Platform Developer I certification or equivalent capability.
• 7+ years of Salesforce development experience.
• Extensive knowledge of Salesforce architecture, platform capabilities, and development best practices.
• Designing and delivering scalable, enterprise‑level Salesforce solutions.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture layers, including data, security, automation and integration.
• Designing complex integration solutions using REST/SOAP APIs and enterprise integration patterns.
• DevOps and CI/CD practices, using tools such as Copado, Gearset, Bitbucket or similar.
• Building and managing release management processes and deployment pipelines.
• Implementing secure data models, enterprise security frameworks and information governance principles.
• Working with large datasets and data migration strategies.
• Establishing development standards, coding best practices and platform governance.
• Leading technical design workshops and producing high‑level solution designs.
• Influencing technical roadmaps in collaboration with senior stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Mentoring, coaching and leading developers to promote technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Desirable Requirements

• Salesforce Platform App Builder or Platform Administrator certification.
• Salesforce Platform Developer II certification.
• Salesforce Sales Cloud and/or Service Cloud Consultant certification.
• Salesforce Application Architect and/or System Architect certification.
• Knowledge of Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.
• Technical leadership within a Salesforce development team.
• Implementing Salesforce governance and platform management frameworks.
• Middleware and enterprise integration platforms.
• Higher Education sector knowledge, including student recruitment, marketing, student records, student experience and commercial operations.
• Understanding of GDPR and data protection requirements.
• Awareness of digital transformation strategies and technology trends within Higher Education.

Benefits

• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, with an additional Christmas closure.
• Generous Aviva pension plan with company contributions starting at 7%.
• BUPA Cash Plan.
• Private Medical Insurance coverage (certain roles).
• Access to Perkbox benefits.
• Study any Arden course for free, with a discount for family and friends.
• Other excellent benefits.
• ‘Golden Ticket’ – gift anyone a free Arden education.

Closing date

20th July

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Arden University is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a disability, as defined by the Disability Equality Act 2010, you may be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the role. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances and actively welcome applications from all groups.

Sponsorship Statement: Unfortunately we can’t sponsor skilled worker visas for this role.

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