Oxford Nanopore Technologies is a global biotechnology company pioneering nanopore-based sensing technology that enables the analysis of DNA, RNA and other molecules. Our mission is to bring the widest benefits to society by enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere!
Headquartered in the UK and serving customers in over 125 countries, we are transforming scientific discovery and advancing research across human health, cancer, infectious diseases, agriculture and environmental science.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Technical Lead to act as the senior technical authority for our Salesforce platform. This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role responsible for defining technical architecture, governing solution design, leading integration strategy, and ensuring the platform remains scalable, secure, and aligned to business objectives.
Working across both major transformation programmes and continuous improvement initiatives, you will provide technical leadership to internal teams and delivery partners while shaping the future Salesforce roadmap.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and govern the end-to-end Salesforce technical architecture.
- Design and approve high- and low-level technical solutions across programmes, projects, and enhancements.
- Lead Salesforce integration architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and performance.
- Provide technical oversight and challenge to internal teams and external delivery partners.
- Drive DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and platform governance best practices.
- Identify and mitigate technical debt, architectural risks, and platform performance issues.
- Collaborate with technical leaders across enterprise platforms to deliver aligned, end-to-end solutions.
- Mentor and develop Salesforce developers and administrators, fostering technical excellence across the team.
About You
You will be an experienced Salesforce Technical Lead/Architect with a development background and a proven track record of leading complex Salesforce implementations within enterprise environments.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Extensive Salesforce architecture and hands-on development experience.
- Deep expertise in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), integrations, security, and data modelling.
- Experience producing High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
- Strong knowledge of integration patterns, APIs, middleware, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience implementing Salesforce DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to operate as the senior technical authority across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Salesforce certifications such as Platform Developer II, Application Architect, System Architect, CTA or equivalent.
- Experience with Salesforce Revenue Cloud Advanced (RCA), CPQ, or Revenue Lifecycle Management.
Desirable
- Experience integrating Salesforce with contact centre platforms such as Amazon Connect.
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and governance models.
We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary.
If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today!
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
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About UsOxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.
Skills Required
- Certified Technical Architect (CTA) with strong Salesforce Developer background
- Proven track record creating High-Level and Low-Level Designs and governing external delivery partners
- Deep knowledge of APIs, middleware, event-driven architecture, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience managing architectural risk across concurrent projects in global, multi-entity environments
- Hands-on experience or certifications with Salesforce CPQ, Revenue Cloud Advanced (RCA), or Revenue Lifecycle Management
- Experience integrating Salesforce with contact centre platforms, specifically Amazon Connect
- Proven ability to mentor developers and maintain hands-on technical credibility
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Oxford Nanopore Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered good to above average across many roles, with employer-provided ranges visible for several U.S. commercial and applications positions and company materials emphasizing market‑competitive base pay. Commercial and some senior technical posts, particularly in the U.S., are positioned as competitive and often paired with strong variable components.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — All‑employee share plans in the UK and a U.S. employee stock purchase plan indicate broad access to equity as part of total reward. Company communications highlight attractive bonus and share plans that add meaningful upside beyond base pay.
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. roles indicate strong health insurance and core protections, while official materials and country overviews reference private medical coverage and wellbeing support. These elements position the health package as a notable strength alongside cash compensation.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Insights
What We Do
Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone. We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology — the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data. We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on society. Our devices offer real-time analysis, for rapid insights, in fully scalable formats — from pocket to population scale — and the technology is being used in more than 100 countries worldwide. Founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, the company now employs more than 600 people from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
