Lead Salesforce Developer

Locations: GB - United Kingdom (London - Office)

Time Type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Today

Job Requisition ID: REQ-2025-14014

Department: 5820 - Customer Ecosystem Development/IT

FLSA Status: Exempt

Position Overview: The Lead SFDC Developer will focus on projects and processes related to call center support, marketing automation, data management, mobile applications, and sales/field rep modules. We are looking for a leader who would be empowered to drive initiatives from a concept to a delivered product with minimal supervision, providing guidance and direction to others on the team. The ideal candidate will have the demonstrated ability to lead a development staff including on-shore and off-shore resources, deep technical knowledge of Salesforce.com and has been involved in enforcing organized development standards. Working closely with other tech leads, architects and Managers of Salesforce development system, the successful candidate will be a hands-on owner of Salesforce ecosystem’s architecture, direction, and governance, as well as leading the tech team for achieving the organization goal for customer success.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain custom solutions on force.com platform with the top-notch knowledge on Apex and Visualforce by establishing best practices of application development and data integrity.
• Develop and support new functionalities using Lightning LWC or Aura framework for internal and external applications like community.
• Able to configure and drive the decision with strong knowledge on the Lightning flow builder and its best practices and make the choice between Flow or Custom as when needed.
• Work with Program managers, Functional leads, business analysts and other senior developers to create project roadmaps, technical specifications and ensure effective collaboration through all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain coding, Unit testing framework standards and best practices and maintain the design documents.
• Enforce best practices through code reviews and technical architecture reviews.
• Present the technical design and architecture flow framework with solution to stakeholders like Product Managers, Product Owners, business users, Senior Leaders from Tech team.
• Identify and develop plans for process improvements on various aspects of development lifecycle and Salesforce platform management.
• Conduct on-going review of Salesforce instance to ensure operational stability and compatibility with evolving business needs.
• Manage daily support and maintenance of Salesforce instance for business continuity.
• Assess the impact of proposed changes and recommend alternative solution choices, determining trade-offs and impact analysis.
• Support Insulet’s enterprise integration program by working with integration leads on processes moving data between Salesforce and other third-party Enterprise systems such as marketing automation or ERP, AWS.
• Mentor junior developers and conduct trainings within the team to walk through on Salesforce new releases alongside guiding on the development principles.
• Occasional off-hour support of production applications/processes, should the issues arise outside of business hours.

Education and Skills/Experience:

• 7+ years as a Senior Salesforce developer working on Sales, Service and Experience cloud. Experience on Health cloud platform is a plus.
• Experience in leading a team of developers and ability to operate independently along with the ability to drive the tech decision among the team.
• Strong knowledge of custom Salesforce development including Apex, Visualforce, basic administration, flows, reporting, and general design concepts.
• Expert in Aura framework and Lighting Web Components.
• Experience managing large Customer portals on Salesforce a strong plus.
• Strong knowledge of OOAD, Design Patterns and general architectural best practices.
• Proven ability to lead teams of developers, provide best practice coding standards and manage a complex CRM environment.
• Good experience in presentation of design, communication to stakeholders along with the proficiency in visio or any other architectural design tool for visual presentation.
• Good understanding of OAUTH principle and other security/encryption best practices.
• Proficient understanding of relational database concepts.
• Experience working on web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
• Experience building webservices using SOAP, REST, XML, JSON.
• Proficient in DevOps best practices, CI/CD and deployment for an IT organization of enterprise scale, either with Salesforce specific tools like Copado or Git, Bamboo etc.
• Knowledge or experience working with middleware platforms such as Mulesoft a plus.
• Platform Developer I and Platform Developer II certification preferred. System and Application Architect certifications are a plus.
• General knowledge of the software development life cycle process Agile, SAFE etc.
• Good to have MS in an IT-related discipline such as Computer Science.
• Preferred experience supporting or working with a Commercial organization in the pharmaceutical, medical device, or any other regulatory controlled industry.

Desired Skills and Competencies:

• Self-sufficient, flexible, and motivated team player capable of managing several activities simultaneously.
• Strong writing skills. Must have the ability to document process and technical knowledge in clear, easily understood presentations.
• Positive, results driven, rational, logical, team player.

Physical Requirements:

• General office environment, may need to stretch working hours bit long depending on the complex release schedule and off hours hypercare support otherwise generally flexible.
• Domestic travel may be required which may be less than 5% of the time.
• This position is primarily based out of UK with London location.

Insulet Corporation (NASDAQ: PODD), headquartered in Massachusetts, is an innovative medical device company dedicated to simplifying life for people with diabetes and other conditions through its Omnipod product platform. The Omnipod Insulin Management System provides a unique alternative to traditional insulin delivery methods. With its simple, wearable design, the tubeless disposable Pod provides up to three days of non-stop insulin delivery, without the need to see or handle a needle. Insulet’s flagship innovation, the Omnipod 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System, integrates with a continuous glucose monitor to manage blood sugar with no multiple daily injections, zero fingersticks, and can be controlled by a compatible personal smartphone in the U.S. or by the Omnipod 5 Controller. Insulet also leverages the unique design of its Pod by tailoring its Omnipod technology platform for the delivery of non-insulin subcutaneous drugs across other therapeutic areas. For more information, please visit insulet.com and omnipod.com. We are looking for highly motivated, performance-driven individuals to be a part of our expanding team. We do this by hiring amazing people guided by shared values who exceed customer expectations. Our continued success depends on it!