Lead Salesforce Administrator

London Source: WhatJobs
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Overview

In this role you will own the Salesforce CRM platform for Corpay’s Alpha division, combining hands-on administration with solution design and governance. You collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable Salesforce solutions and shape the platform roadmap. You will set standards, drive technical direction, and oversee deployments while balancing day-to-day support with long-term improvements. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on delivering secure, scalable, and high-quality CRM capabilities that enable business success.

Pay / Benefits

  • 25 days’ annual leave
  • Buy/sell up to 5 days leave
  • Pension with 3% employee and up to 5% employer contributions
  • Private Medical Insurance with Vitality (low excess)
  • Life Insurance
  • Gratitudes benefits platform discounts

Responsibilities

  • Own technical and functional stewardship of Salesforce, ensuring security, reliability, and alignment with business needs
  • Lead solution design by translating requirements into maintainable Salesforce solutions
  • Shape and prioritise the Salesforce roadmap and backlog, provide technical direction
  • Design, build and review Salesforce Flow and declarative configuration with maintainability and performance in mind
  • Set governance and configuration standards, document clearly, reduce technical debt
  • Own Salesforce security and access administration using least-privilege principles
  • Maintain data quality and governance across data model, imports/exports, cleansing and integrity controls
  • Lead changes through sandboxes, testing, UAT, and controlled deployments with risk management
  • Oversee integrations, connected apps and AppExchange, collaborating with developers and vendors on design and troubleshooting
  • Act as escalation point for complex issues, drive root-cause analysis and platform performance improvements
  • Drive adoption of best practices through guidance, training, reports and dashboards

Key requirements

  • Hands-on Salesforce administration with ownership of a complex environment across BAU and platform change
  • Experience as a senior/lead practitioner providing technical and functional direction without line-management responsibility
  • Deep knowledge of Salesforce administration, data model, security, objects, automation, reports and dashboards
  • Strong Salesforce Flow and declarative automation expertise for scalable solutions
  • Proven ability to translate cross-functional requirements into pragmatic, maintainable Salesforce solutions
  • Understanding of integrations, APIs, connected apps and AppExchange; able to work with developers and vendors
  • Data-management and release-management experience including sandboxes, testing, UAT and controlled deployment
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving and prioritisation skills; able to influence stakeholders in an Agile environment
  • Salesforce Certified Administrator preferred; Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder or similar certifications advantageous
  • Familiarity with SOQL, Apex and Lightning components beneficial but not essential
  • Stakeholder-management
  • Problem-solving
  • Prioritisation
  • Salesforce administration and configuration
  • Salesforce Flow and declarative automation
  • Security and access management (roles, permission sets, sharing)

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