About Spectrum.Life

Spectrum.Life is a whole-of-health digital partner that guides organisations and their people to thrive, delivering clinically backed digital health, mental health and wellbeing solutions. Our HealthTech delivers digital transformation for Insurers, Educators and Employers through Co-creation or seamlessly integrated out-of-the-box solutions, that decrease digital fragmentation and engage, empower, and transform their people’s lives. Established in 2018, Spectrum.Life provides services internationally to over 7.2m insurance members, 3,000 corporate clients, 60 universities and 650,000 university students. Spectrum.Life currently employs over 350 people. Our vision is to change and save as many lives as possible.

Role Brief

The Lead Salesforce Developer will serve as the senior technical authority and team lead for our Salesforce engineering team. This is a hands-on technical role for an individual with a deep, holistic understanding of the Salesforce ecosystem, its capabilities, and its limitations. You will be responsible for providing architectural guidance, driving technical best practices, and mentoring a team of developers. Beyond internal leadership, you will act as a key technical consultant, engaging in external-facing calls to assess project complexity, provide accurate estimations, and inform strategic decisions regarding effort and resource allocation. This role is crucial for ensuring our Salesforce solutions are scalable, maintainable, and perfectly aligned with our business objectives, while also fostering a clear growth path for junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Serve as the primary technical lead for a team of Salesforce engineers, providing architectural guidance and hands-on solutioning.
• DevOps & Engineering Practices: Design, implement, and maintain a robust CI/CD pipeline for Salesforce, ensuring alignment with the processes of the wider engineering organization.
• Development Lifecycle & Governance: Define and implement a structured feature development lifecycle, from request intake to deployment.
• Team Development & Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers, manage workload distribution, and act as the primary escalation point for technical challenges.
• Project Scoping & Estimation: Join pre-sales and project discovery calls with external stakeholders to rapidly assess technical requirements and project complexity. Provide accurate estimations for development effort, timelines, and resource allocation. Develop technical proposals and proofs-of-concept needed for informed project decision-making.
• Solution Delivery & Integration: Translate complex business requirements into scalable Salesforce solutions; identify opportunities for improvements and integrations with other systems; collaborate with solution architects, product managers, and other engineering teams to ensure technical alignment.
• Vendor & Quality Management: Oversee the performance and delivery of outsourced resources and third-party vendors, ensuring all contributions adhere to quality standards.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a senior or lead Salesforce Developer/Engineer role.
• Deep expertise across the Salesforce platform (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Health Cloud) and strong declarative and programmatic capabilities.
• Experience with Salesforce integrations (APIs, middleware) and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, source control).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in a client-facing or consulting capacity, with proven ability to scope projects and estimate effort accurately.
• A passion for mentoring and a track record of helping junior developers grow their skills.

Benefits

• Full time permanent contract
• Competitive salary (Dependent on experience)
• In-office, remote or hybrid working options
• 25 days annual leave
• 24/7 EAP and a wide range of health and wellbeing supports
• Extensive list of employee perks and benefits

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Mental Health Care

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