Salesforce Technical Lead

Please note this role could be based across any of our core office locations including Manchester, Reading or Cardiff

Feel like being part of…

At Aldermore, we’re building a modern banking platform which will make a positive difference to people’s lives. Our tech teams are ambitious, collaborative, inquisitive and humble. We solve problems together, working in cross functional, autonomous agile teams and we encourage continuous learning. We all have an opportunity to make a difference as we move at pace, try things out and learn together. We are passionate about quality and continuous improvement but remain focussed on the value our software delivers.

We have a unique opportunity for an experienced Salesforce Technical Lead to join us in a newly created role and have significant influence in the modernisation of our tech landscape. You’ll be joining our Product function and play a lead role in building out our engineering capabilities for our Apollo Programme; one of the most significant change programmes our business has undergone. Apollo will enable the group’s strategic objectives by delivering a new, modern & progressive cloud-based banking platform that utilises data as an asset to help build a better tomorrow for our Customer, Colleagues and Shareholders.

Apollo represents an agile way of working collaboratively, within multi-disciplinary teams to achieve our exciting goals. Within the programme you’ll be accountable for setting up and leading the Salesforce engineering capabilities, in a role which makes the most of your technical expertise and empowers you to have significant influence on our journey to building a modern banking platform.

What would your day look like?

• Lead one of our stream-aligned teams to deliver business value through effective software development practices.
• Collaborate with product owners, stakeholders and business analysts to help inform what we build.
• Manage a team of developers, encouraging personal and team development through mentoring.
• Support alignment across technology leadership, share experiences and discover improved ways of working.
• Encourage an inclusive and collaborative culture giving everyone an opportunity to make a difference and have fun.
• Ensure our software and documentation meets expected standards and best practices to support a high quality of service.
• Help evaluate new technologies and vendors to enable greater business value.
• Support recruitment activities, conducting interviews and managing team structures.

What do we expect of you?

• Proven experience successfully leading an agile software engineering team working in a continuous delivery environment.
• Significant experience with Salesforce development, including Sales, Service & Experience cloud.
• Deep technical knowledge of Salesforce limits, architecture and skews
• Expert level experience with Apex, SFDX, Lighting Components, Packages and Source Driven Development
• Experience working in a large scale Salesforce implementation
• Familiar with integration patterns using REST APIs and events.
• An interest in working in a domain driven design environment.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate between technical and non technical language

What can you expect of us?

• A friendly and flexible culture, the same as how we work with our customers.
• A growing organisation that means there’s lots of opportunities to progress
• A drive for continuous improvement, which you will be empowered to get behind from day one.
• A communicative, accessible and approachable ExCo.
• And of course, you will be rewarded competitively, with a good range of core benefits and bonus potential.

Let us tell you a bit more about us…

We’re a nimble and ambitious financial services specialist. Backing people to go for it in life and business..

We’re UK-based supporting our customers across a range of products and services. Aldermore Group was formed by bringing together two very successful businesses, Aldermore Bank and MotoNovo Finance, under the First Rand umbrella.

We thrive by saying “yes” to our customers. We respect the ingenuity of entrepreneurs and their startups; we give first-timers a leg-up onto the property ladder; we open up the lending market to many; and thousands of customers chose Motonovo Finance every week to buy their next car, van or motorbike.

This is where you come in. We are on a journey. A journey defined by a destination; to deliver on our purpose.