Salesforce Lead Developer NEW

Cognizant
Salesforce Lead Developer

Here at Cognizant, we work with clients across the UK to help modernise their businesses. Cognizant’s Salesforce services span across Consulting & Advisory services, design, implementation, and continuous value enhancement. Our customers especially value our ability to provide Salesforce advisory and execution capabilities for complex end-to-end multi-cloud, multi country deployments across the entire spectrum of Customer Experience (CX), be it Sales, Service (including Field Service), Marketing, Commerce, Analytics & Integration. Our dedicated Salesforce practice harnesses the full power of Salesforce products and innovations, while leveraging our design thinking, consultive approach, and CX expertise to create new digital experiences for customers.

We are currently recruiting a Salesforce Lead Developer to join our team. In this hands on role, you will provide day to day technical leadership within a scrum team delivering enhancements to a Salesforce org used by both internal and external users. This role combines senior level development capability with technical governance, code quality ownership, and delivery leadership. The successful candidate will lead by example: designing, building, reviewing, and deploying Salesforce solutions while ensuring alignment with Salesforce best practices. This is not a pure management role – the Technical Lead is expected to be actively coding, reviewing work, shaping technical decisions, and driving continuous improvement across the team.

This role is based in London and requires travel to the client’s office 2 times/ week.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead within a scrum team, overseeing Salesforce configuration, custom development, and hands on coding across Apex, Lightning Web Components, and integrations.
• Lead solution design for stories and epics, ensuring scalable, secure, and compliant designs, while conducting Proofs of Concept to validate approaches and reduce delivery risks.
• Own and maintain code quality across the team by enforcing Salesforce best practices, conducting structured peer reviews, and ensuring robust testing and documentation.
• Support DevOps activities, including deployments using tools like Copado and codescan.io, and participate in release readiness, governance forums, and management of data model changes.
• Actively engage in agile ceremonies, providing constructive input during planning, challenging estimates, and ensuring that all work items meet the Definition of Ready and Done.
• Maintain transparency of technical risks and impediments, and drive continuous improvement actions identified in retrospectives.

What will make you successful

• You will need to hold the following certifications: Salesforce Administrator, Platform App Builder, Platform Developer I, Platform Developer II.
• Salesforce technical leadership capability in enterprise environments.
• Extensive hands on experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC)/Aura, Salesforce configuration and data model design.
• Understanding of Salesforce architecture, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Salesforce Classic (where applicable), Agentforce Public Services (and Omnistudio).
• Good knowledge of DevOps processes and CI/CD in Salesforce environments.
• Documentation skills, able to communicate designs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Product Owners, testers, architects, and governance stakeholders.
• Secure by design mindset, with consideration of data protection and regulatory controls.