Lead Salesforce Engineer

Lead Salesforce Engineer

Salary: National £80,000 - £100,000

Locations: Eastleigh/ Bristol/ Norwich/ Sheffield

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys turning complex health and insurance processes into elegant, scalable Salesforce solutions. You may be ready for a step up into technical leadership, or already leading engineers and now looking for an opportunity to broaden your influence and impact.

You'll thrive here if you’re excited about mentoring others while still being hands‑on with Apex, Lightning Web Components, and solution architecture. If you enjoy partnering with stakeholders to translate real business problems into secure, data‑driven designs, this role will give you lots of opportunities to do just that.

It’s also a great fit for someone naturally curious—someone who likes exploring emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning, and who is open to new ideas, new ways of working, and continuous improvement. And if you don’t meet every requirement, that’s okay; we’re looking for people who want to grow.

A bit about the job:

You’ll design, develop, and deliver robust solutions on the Aviva Health Salesforce platform, bringing real value to our customers and internal teams. As the technical subject matter expert, you’ll convert business requirements into secure, scalable architectures, lead hands‑on development, and support the growth of a talented engineering team.

You will be responsible for the full development lifecycle—from solution design and integration with external systems to deployment, operations, and technical optimisation. Working closely with stakeholders, you’ll ensure high code quality, smooth performance, and thoughtful automation that simplifies our business processes.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Deep Salesforce engineering: Strong Apex, Lightning Web Components and Visualforce skills, plus experience in security, data modelling, data migration, and performance tuning.
• Cloud domain expertise: Background with Health Cloud, Financial Services Cloud, and/or Insurance Cloud, ideally within the health or insurance sectors.
• Integration & DevOps: Experience delivering integrations via Salesforce APIs (REST/SOAP), middleware and CI/CD, ideally with Azure DevOps.
• Technical leadership & Agile: Experience mentoring others, reviewing code, estimating work, and delivering in Scrum or SAFe environments.
• Stakeholder communication: Ability to communicate clearly, inclusively, and confidently, translating business needs into well‑documented technical solutions and exploring new ideas, including areas such as AI/ML.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary National £80,000 - £100,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity - 12% (E grade) of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Harjot Kaur a call on +44 7353 138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com