Senior Solutions Engineer

Salary: £60,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Salesforce Certified Administrator (essential)
• Advanced Administrator or Platform App Builder certification desirable
• Substantial, senior-level experience as a Salesforce Administrator with day-to-day platform ownership
• Strong hands-on configuration skills, including Flow Builder, validation rules, page layouts, reports and dashboards, and the security model
• Experience managing or mentoring more junior team members, formally or informally
• Working knowledge of Apex and Lightning Components sufficient to review and QA changes
• Familiarity with deployment tools such as Copado or Gearset
• Comfortable working within Agile ways of working and structured change control processes
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working with Salesforce managed packages is a plus

Responsibilities:

• Own day-to-day Salesforce administration, configuration and maintenance across Sales, Service and Field Service Clouds
• Build and maintain complex automation using Flow Builder, validation rules and other declarative tools
• Review Apex and Lightning Component changes where required
• Manage and mentor a small team of Salesforce administrators and support analysts, overseeing workload, quality of output and professional development
• Triage and resolve complex user support escalations across Salesforce and integrated systems
• Partner with the Solutions Architect to translate architecture and solution designs into configured, tested platform changes
• Manage user access, the security model, profiles, permission sets and data integrity
• Deploy platform changes through the development pipeline in line with change control protocols
• Maintain up-to-date system documentation, configuration records and standard operating procedures
• Support release management activities and assess the impact of new Salesforce releases on existing configuration
• Engage with external partners and vendors on delivery standards and timelines
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation and technical debt reduction

Technologies:

• Apex
• Architect
• Flow
• Support
• Salesforce
• Security
• Cloud

More:

Our client is a major UK housebuilder with an ambitious technology transformation underway, and this is a brand-new role at the heart of a growing Salesforce team. The position is hybrid in Edinburgh, with a minimum of two days per week on-site, and offers a salary of up to £62,000. The role sits within a Salesforce function investing seriously in modern tooling and process, and it offers the opportunity to take ownership of the platform, work closely with a Solutions Architect, and help build and mentor a team around you.

last updated 38 week of 2026