Salesforce Technical Lead - Contract Position
Budget: £36 – £0 GBP
Responsible for leading delivery teams from a technical perspective, ensuring that work is completed in line with good engineering practices; operating within a product development team.
Key Accountabilities
Ensures that the delivery team remains focused on high quality engineering practices whilst endeavouring to deliver projects on time and on budget.
Spreads good engineering practices within the delivery team and the wider organization
Leads and supports one or more delivery teams.
Works with project stakeholders to ensure they know what is expected of them in a quality IT engineering project delivery.
Works within and educates others about the engineering practices used by the delivery teams, such as TDD, BDD, peer review, design patterns, frequent regular user feedback.
Will lead and facilitate teams doing iterative development that have not yet fully adopted Agile practices as well as more genuinely Agile teams.
Ensures that stakeholders are kept up to date with progress on quality metrics.
Helps teams to become better engineers, whatever their current engineering maturity.
Stays up to date with good engineering practice and helps to spread this within the wider development organisation.
Takes an active role in the development of other staff through mentoring of more junior technical and engineering resources.
Technical Knowledge
Demonstrable track record of leading software delivery.
Breadth and depth of knowledge of a range of engineering tools, practices and technologies.
Experience of working with people outside of engineering or who are new to engineering approaches.
Stakeholder management and influencing skills covering colleagues, partners / vendors and project sponsors.
To have recognized expertise in engineering flexible and scalable solutions on a multi-tenant platform.
Good knowledge of Systems Development Lifecycle processes.
Experience in both waterfall and agile development approaches.
Experience in estimating, planning and supplier management.
Experience of forming teams and knowledge of team dynamics and how to optimise a team for high performance.
Experience of working with offshore delivery teams.
Skilled in several of: SOAP/REST API, ETL tools, APEX, AURA framework, Visualforce, Javascript, Lightning
Key Accountabilities
Ensures that the delivery team remains focused on high quality engineering practices whilst endeavouring to deliver projects on time and on budget.
Spreads good engineering practices within the delivery team and the wider organization
Leads and supports one or more delivery teams.
Works with project stakeholders to ensure they know what is expected of them in a quality IT engineering project delivery.
Works within and educates others about the engineering practices used by the delivery teams, such as TDD, BDD, peer review, design patterns, frequent regular user feedback.
Will lead and facilitate teams doing iterative development that have not yet fully adopted Agile practices as well as more genuinely Agile teams.
Ensures that stakeholders are kept up to date with progress on quality metrics.
Helps teams to become better engineers, whatever their current engineering maturity.
Stays up to date with good engineering practice and helps to spread this within the wider development organisation.
Takes an active role in the development of other staff through mentoring of more junior technical and engineering resources.
Technical Knowledge
Demonstrable track record of leading software delivery.
Breadth and depth of knowledge of a range of engineering tools, practices and technologies.
Experience of working with people outside of engineering or who are new to engineering approaches.
Stakeholder management and influencing skills covering colleagues, partners / vendors and project sponsors.
To have recognized expertise in engineering flexible and scalable solutions on a multi-tenant platform.
Good knowledge of Systems Development Lifecycle processes.
Experience in both waterfall and agile development approaches.
Experience in estimating, planning and supplier management.
Experience of forming teams and knowledge of team dynamics and how to optimise a team for high performance.
Experience of working with offshore delivery teams.
Skilled in several of: SOAP/REST API, ETL tools, APEX, AURA framework, Visualforce, Javascript, Lightning
Related categories:
Engineering
Testing / QA
Software Architecture
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