Lead Salesforce Developer

• Salary: £70,000 - £84,000 per annum
• Employment type: Permanent
• Hours per week: 37
• Reporting into: Head of Customer Systems
• Department: IT

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This role operates primarily on a remote working arrangement that will require monthly attendance at one of our UK sites for team meetings. Our remote working model arrangements are a non‑contractual benefit which could change at any point during your employment, so for this reason an Arden work location is added to our employment contracts.

We are an aspirational and multi‑award‑winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first‑choice university for career‑focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.

The Lead Salesforce Developer sits within our Technology Department that is crucial to making sure our employees and students can work effectively, deliver projects, find the right solutions and ensure we develop the technology that will make the biggest difference.

Our IT team is made up of around 65 employees with a vast range of skills from Software Development to IT Operations and Security.

Our IT Department values employee development and we have lots of great examples of employee progression and promotions within the team.

As our Lead Salesforce Developer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and evolving one of the University’s most important business platforms, leading the technical development of solutions that support our ambitious digital transformation programme.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Salesforce developer who enjoys combining hands‑on technical delivery with technical leadership. You’ll lead the design, development, and optimisation of Salesforce solutions, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and aligned with best practice. Working across the full development lifecycle, you’ll help deliver innovative capabilities that drive business efficiency and enhance the user experience.

You’ll work closely with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, and the wider Business Systems team to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions. As the technical lead for the platform, you’ll establish development standards, guide architectural decisions, mentor fellow developers, and champion modern development practices across the Salesforce ecosystem.

The role also offers the opportunity to influence the University’s long‑term Salesforce strategy, leading on integrations, Dev Ops, data architecture, and platform governance to ensure our Salesforce estate continues to evolve in line with organisational priorities.

If you’re passionate about Salesforce development, thrive on solving complex technical challenges, and want to lead the delivery of enterprise‑scale solutions in a collaborative and purpose‑driven environment, we’d love to hear from you.

• Significant hands‑on Salesforce development expertise, with Salesforce Platform Developer I certification or equivalent capability.
• 7+ years of Salesforce development experience
• Extensive knowledge of Salesforce architecture, platform capabilities, and development best practices.
• Designing and delivering scalable, enterprise‑level Salesforce solutions.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture layers, including data, security, automation, and integration.
• Designing complex integration solutions using REST/SOAP APIs and enterprise integration patterns.
• Dev Ops and CI/CD practices, using tools such as Copado, Gearset, Bitbucket, or similar.
• Building and managing release management processes and deployment pipelines.
• Implementing secure data models, enterprise security frameworks, and information governance principles.
• Working with large datasets and data migration strategies.
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