Engineering Lead - Salesforce & .NET/Azure Platform
Salary: £110,000
Leeds, Manchester, Redhill, Tunbridge Wells, Bournemouth, or Bristol (Hybrid/Flexible)
We're looking for a forward-thinking Engineering Lead to drive our technical delivery and uplift the engineering capabilities of our growing team. This role is at the intersection of engineering strategy, leadership, and solution delivery particularly across our Salesforce ecosystem and our .NET/Azure base platform.
You'll be responsible for owning complex technical solutions, setting low-level design standards, and ensuring continuous improvement through innovation, engineering excellence, and strategic leadership.
What You'll Do:
- Set engineering strategy and technical direction across squads, uplifting engineering standards and driving continuous improvement.
- Lead the low-level design and implementation of scalable systems including Salesforce channel integrations and Azure services.
- Provide leadership and structure to teams solving complex business problems
- and bring back clear, actionable solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence by introducing modern design patterns, libraries, and frameworks into the engineering function.
- Work closely with Salesforce (Health Cloud, Sales Cloud, FS Cloud), delivering solutions for core business capabilities: pricing, claims, policy and customer management.
- Manage 5-15 engineers, typically through Lead Engineers and dotted-line reporting across squads, contractors, and SI partners.
- Own end-to-end delivery of major features - from solution design to implementation, including performance testing, synthetic data generation, and environment management.
- Remain hands-on: spend ~15-20% of your time writing code and setting the benchmark for quality engineering practices.
- Contribute to succession planning, capability uplift, and long-term technical direction for the engineering function.
What You Bring:
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex solutions at scale.
- Strong technical foundation in Salesforce, including APEX, Futures, Batch processes, and platform architecture.
- Practical knowledge of .NET and Azure technologies and how they integrate into enterprise platforms.
- Experience with Salesforce performance tuning, data volume ramp-up strategies, and environment orchestration.
- Ability to articulate engineering strategy and complex design solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience implementing customer consent and other regulatory features within Salesforce or a similar enterprise system.
- Passion for modern engineering principles, mentoring others, and creating high-performing teams.
If you're ready to play a key role in a transformative digital journey and have the expertise to lead high-performing engineering teams, we'd love to hear from you! Click "Apply" Or Email lauren.hamer@oliverjames.com
