Salesforce Technical Lead

Summary

Join Pepperstone's Enterprise Applications team as a Salesforce Technical Lead and play a critical role in the technical leadership and development of our internal Salesforce platform. You will lead and mentor a team of Salesforce technical specialists across multiple clouds, ensuring platform health, data integrity, and performance. This role requires extensive Salesforce development experience, proven leadership skills, and strong communication abilities. We offer a collaborative and friendly culture, flexible and hybrid working options, including remote work, and various benefits such as competitive salary, bonus scheme, parental leave, and professional development opportunities. We are committed to your growth and success, providing a supportive environment where your ideas matter. If you are passionate about harnessing technology's potential and thrive in a dynamic environment, apply now!

Requirements

• Extensive experience in Salesforce development, including Apex, Lightning Web Components and integrations
• Proven track record of leading and mentoring technical teams
• Experience in recruiting is essential
• Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture and best practices
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Qualifications in computer science or equivalent
• Ability to live the Pepperstone values
• Committed to ongoing learning and development

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the Salesforce development team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Collaborate with other teams to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Enable other teams to seamlessly, effectively and securely deliver features and value to end-users and customers, while adhering to platform best practices
• Oversee code reviews, testing, and deployment processes to ensure high-quality deliverables
• Work with the Salesforce Architect closely to develop guidelines, principles and patterns and ensure adherence
• Manage and maintain the Salesforce suite, including security, data integrity, and performance optimization
• Design and implement integrations with other enterprise systems, ensuring seamless data flow
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, providing timely support to end-users
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of all technical designs and configurations
• Stay up to date with the latest Salesforce technologies and best practices and recommend improvements to our platform
• Manage release cycles for Salesforce, and work with other teams to ensure smooth deployments
• Participating in our weekly on-call support rotation to provide support for any incidents impacting the Salesforce ecosystem
• Forming, engaging and retaining a high-performing team
• Measuring, reporting and continuously improving the delivery velocity and quality of your team
• Creating transparency of delivery effort and outcomes by aligning to best practices to tracking work in Jira and ServiceDesk

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce certifications (e.g. Platform Developer II, Technical Architect) are highly desirable
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Experience with Salesforce integration tools and patterns
• A strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines related to Salesforce

Benefits

• Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme
• Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks per year, in addition to hybrid working as standard
• Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities
• 15 weeks paid primary carers parental leave & 4 weeks paid secondary carers leave
• 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program
• Frequent events and celebrations including a standard weekly social
• Beautifully renovated large office at Collins Square - 727 Collins Street, Melbourne
• Best in class end of trip facilities including bicycle parking, change rooms & showers
• A full stocked kitchen, onsite coffee machines with locally sourced coffee beans (this is Melbourne after all) and curated specialty teas