Salesforce Technical Lead - Warwick, United Kingdom - National Grid

National Grid
National Grid
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Warwick, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Salesforce Technical Lead:


  • Location: Warwick, GB, CV34 6DA
  • Division: IT Business Partnering ESO
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  • Job Function: Information Technology
    About us:
Great Britain's electricity system is undergoing an ambitious, exciting and vital transformation.

Together with industry, we are creating a cleaner, greener system, one that protects the planet and serves generations to come.


Job Purpose:


Responsible for leading delivery teams from a technical perspective, ensuring that work is completed in line with good engineering practices; operating within a product development team.


Key Accountabilities:


  • Ensures that the delivery team remains focused on high quality engineering practices whilst endeavouring to deliver projects on time and on budget.
  • Spreads good engineering practices within the delivery team and the wider organization
  • Leads and supports one or more delivery teams.
  • Works with project stakeholders to ensure they know what is expected of them in a quality IT engineering project delivery.
  • Works within and educates others about the engineering practices used by the delivery teams, such as TDD, BDD, peer review, design patterns, frequent regular user feedback.
  • Will lead and facilitate teams doing iterative development that have not yet fully adopted Agile practices as well as more genuinely Agile teams.
  • Ensures that stakeholders are kept up to date with progress on quality metrics.
  • Helps teams to become better engineers, whatever their current engineering maturity.
  • Stays up to date with good engineering practice and helps to spread this within the wider development organisation.
  • Takes an active role in the development of other staff through mentoring of more junior technical and engineering resources.

Knowledge, Experience & Technical Know how:

  • Demonstrable track record of leading software delivery.
  • Breadth and depth of knowledge of a range of engineering tools, practices and technologies.
  • Experience of working with people outside of engineering or who are new to engineering approaches.
  • Stakeholder management and influencing skills covering colleagues, partners / vendors and project sponsors.
  • To have recognized expertise in engineering flexible and scalable solutions on a multitenant platform.
  • Good knowledge of Systems Development Lifecycle processes.
  • Experience in both waterfall and agile development approaches.
  • Experience in estimating, planning and supplier management.
  • Experience of forming teams and knowledge of team dynamics and how to optimise a team for high performance.
  • Experience of working with offshore delivery teams.

What you'll get:

A competitive salary between £45,000 - £55,000 - dependent on capability.


As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.

You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share


At National Grid ESO, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people.

Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be.

We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.

We're committed to building a workforce that represents the communities we serve, and a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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