Salesforce Technical Lead

Job Description

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is a global biotechnology company pioneering nanopore‑based sensing technology that enables the analysis of DNA, RNA and other molecules. Our mission is to bring the widest benefits to society by enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere! Headquartered in the UK and serving customers in over 125 countries, we are transforming scientific discovery and advancing research across human health, cancer, infectious diseases, agriculture and environmental science.

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Technical Lead to act as the senior technical authority for our Salesforce platform. This is a strategic and hands‑on leadership role responsible for defining technical architecture, governing solution design, leading integration strategy, and ensuring the platform remains scalable, secure, and aligned to business objectives. Working across both major transformation programmes and continuous improvement initiatives, you will provide technical leadership to internal teams and delivery partners while shaping the future Salesforce roadmap.

• Own and govern the end‑to‑end Salesforce technical architecture.
• Design and approve high‑ and low‑level technical solutions across programmes, projects, and enhancements.
• Lead Salesforce integration architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and performance.
• Provide technical oversight and challenge to internal teams and external delivery partners.
• Drive Dev Ops, CI/CD, release management, and platform governance best practices.
• Identify and mitigate technical debt, architectural risks, and platform performance issues.
• Collaborate with technical leaders across enterprise platforms to deliver aligned, end‑to‑end solutions.
• Mentor and develop Salesforce developers and administrators, fostering technical excellence across the team.

You will be an experienced Salesforce Technical Lead/Architect with a development background and a proven track record of leading complex Salesforce implementations within enterprise environments.

• Extensive Salesforce architecture and hands‑on development experience.
• Deep expertise in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), integrations, security, and data modelling.
• Experience producing High‑Level Designs (HLDs) and Low‑Level Designs (LLDs).
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns, APIs, middleware, and event‑driven architectures.
• Experience implementing Salesforce Dev Ops and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to operate as the senior technical authority across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Salesforce certifications such as Platform Developer II, Application Architect, System Architect, CTA or equivalent.
• Experience with Salesforce Revenue Cloud Advanced (RCA), CPQ, or Revenue Lifecycle Management.

• Experience integrating Salesforce with contact centre platforms such as Amazon Connect.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and governance models.

We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary.

If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today!

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies:
Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore‑based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins.

The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.