Salesforce Technical Lead

BearingPoint is one of Europe’s leading independent, partner led technology services and business consulting organisations and a highly regarded strategic partner for our clients. We are actively seeking a Salesforce Technical Lead (at Senior Consultant level) to join our growing team. This is a great opportunity to join BearingPoint at a pivotal moment of growth and investment and help develop the UK’s most amazing Salesforce practice. We are a people focused business with the strong belief that business success comes from enabling our colleagues to grow, follow their aspirations and have fun at what they do.

Role Description

The Salesforce Technical Lead is a hands‑on delivery role responsible for leading cross‑functional teams to design, build, and deliver Salesforce solutions. The role takes ownership of day‑to‑day technical delivery, ensuring high‑quality outcomes through best‑practice development using Apex, declarative automation, and modern DevOps approaches. The Technical Lead works independently to solve complex technical problems, including integrations, and is accountable for producing detailed technical designs, building working demos and prototypes, and supporting solution validation throughout delivery. The role works closely with Technical Architects, contributing to solution implementation while being mentored to grow architectural capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, building, testing, deploying and supporting Salesforce solutions using agile and DevOps practices – for delivery or as demo solutions.
• Developing robust, scalable solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows and Salesforce configuration.
• Building, configuring and supporting routes to production through automated Salesforce CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensuring solutions are secure, performant and aligned to platform and regulatory best practices.
• Improving the reliability, quality and maintainability of Salesforce-based solutions across our clients' enterprise.

Salesforce Technical Lead supports the Technical Architects in embedding best practice within their assigned team and across the wider engineering and Salesforce communities of practice.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Strong entrepreneurial and teamwork skills, using communication and problem-solving to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and deliver customer-focused outcomes.
• Ensuring standard adherence: ensuring the aligned delivery team has the appropriate frameworks, coding standards, architectural patterns and ways of working to consistently deliver high-quality Salesforce solutions.
• Work closely with our CoE to extend/update standards as needed.
• Strong hands‑on development experience with LWC, Apex including triggers, asynchronous processing and integrations.
• Experience with Salesforce DevOps and other CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Hands‑on experience with Git-based version control and branching models.
• Security best practices: awareness of Salesforce security principles and secure‑by‑design implementation, including data protection and access control.
• Continuous learning: coaching and developing engineering capability within the Salesforce team, contributing to a community of practice and staying current with Salesforce platform evolution.
• Provide technical leadership across dependencies where Salesforce is integrated with multiple legacy systems, with proven ability to drive technical strategy and resolve integration challenges.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting: ability to implement monitoring, logging and proactive issue resolution across Salesforce environments.
• Strong experience working and leading within an agile development methodology.
• Ability to customise and optimise the user experience, manage profiles, permissions and sharing models.
• Experience in Industry clouds such as Financial Services, Public Sector, Social Housing, Retail, will be highly desirable.
• Experience or certifications with Experience Cloud, FSL, Agentforce, Data 360, any middleware, will be highly desirable.

Why work for us?

BearingPoint provides a highly competitive and flexible benefits package designed to support employee well‑being, career development, and work‑life balance. This includes private health and dental insurance, pension contributions, annual bonuses, gym membership support, professional subscriptions, paid maternity and paternity leave, income protection, nursery workplace benefits and many more.

Plus, we offer:

• Professional development: In order to aid career progression, you will be provided with the opportunity to attend exclusive business courses to help accelerate professional and network growth.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

For further information, please see BearingPoint’s careers website.

Equality

BearingPoint is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce where each individual feels they belong. Fostering a work environment with a strong sense of community and where everyone can thrive is a core pillar of our business. We are focused on attracting and retaining the best people with the right skills and the desire to deliver excellent results, regardless of background. In return, we will provide a working environment in which everyone feels valued and has the opportunity to fulfil their potential, where their talents are fully utilised and company goals are met. We celebrate the strength that comes from our similarities and our differences through local initiatives which promote inclusion, outreach, and respect.