Lead, Technical - JHB Baker Street 30 at Standard Bank Group

Job Description

• We are seeking a talented and innovative Salesforce Technical Lead to join our team in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• As the Salesforce Technical Lead, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality Salesforce Solutions against required standards and timelines, that meet our clients' needs and drive our organisation's success, through the team of Salesforce Software Engineers / Developers that you will be responsible for.
• Be responsible for the end-to-end technical delivery of the solution.
• Be responsible for the technical design of the solution.
• Be responsible for attaining support and approval of the solution through the bank’s governance process.
• Ensure configurations and code follow our approved standards.
• Drive standardisation and reuse of solutions.
• Ensure necessary refactoring of solutions to ensure they remain performant, secure, reusable, maintainable and in line with our architectures.
• Be responsible for the overall quality of the solution.
• Interpret business requirements.
• Define technical tasks.
• Perform end to end testing.
• Supporting and troubleshooting technical questions, software and database issues
• Lead, manage and mentor Salesforce software and quality engineers across your delivery teams to build and improve the engineering capability.
• The Salesforce Technical Lead will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of all technical solution delivery (engineering aspects) in the identified delivery teams, adhering to set standards, practices and quality expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• Salesforce Certifications: Platform Developer I & II, Platform App Builder, Experience Cloud Consultant, Copado Fundamentals 1 and 2

Experience: 

• 8-10 years' broad experience in software development, including 3-4 years in Salesforce development (Experience Cloud and Service Cloud)
• 1-2 years' experience managing a team of 10+ technical experts
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Experience in Salesforce solution design, DevOps tools (e.g., Copado), and best practices for Salesforce coding
• Strong leadership skills with a track record in capability building and coaching technical staff
• Proficiency in end-to-end technical delivery, quality assurance, and fostering a learning environment within the team