Salesforce Developer

Location: Greater Manchester Area – Hybrid (2x a week onsite, 3x a week at home)

About The Role

The Salesforce Developer is part of a highly skilled, dedicated, Salesforce development team supporting and enabling multiple business lines, across all our client’s products. This is an area which is consistently growing and innovating!

They will ensure that a successful Salesforce user experience is delivered to all users. The Salesforce Developer will utilise in-depth knowledge of Salesforce platforms to ensure all developments meet best practice.

Accountabilities

• Developing and delivering front end changes, agreed and prioritised by the business areas
• Work with Business Analysts, Project Leads, Salesforce colleagues and Salesforce Solution Engineers to define and understand requirements, challenging where necessary, in terms of Salesforce capabilities
• Work alongside administrators and existing development team where required
• Testing new and existing implementations to the agreed software development lifecycle standards
• Evaluate the success of projects / processes on an ongoing basis and make recommendations based on a sound understanding of business priorities
• Collaborate with IT and other Distribution teams across the business to deliver high quality software solutions
• Working with multiple aspects of the Salesforce Lightning Platform (Service Cloud, Sales Cloud) across various business units and stakeholders; including but not limited to Apex Classes, Aura/Lightning Web Components, Visualforce, Controllers & Triggers, Data Loader, org customisation, and SOQL & SOSL
• Build excellent product knowledge and always remain up to date on business, industry, technical and customer strategies

Skills required

Essential

• Educated to degree level in computing / programming related subject, or relevant experience in an Information Technology role
• Salesforce Developer 1 certified or working towards this certification
• General knowledge of programming languages and confident with learning new programming languages
• A high degree of self-motivation and the ability to work flexibly within tight deadlines with demanding stakeholders. Demonstrating effective time management skills at all times
• High level of attention to detail when creating and testing code for implementation
• Clear and concise written style and good presentation skills. Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly, both verbally and in written form
• Take responsibility to manage own personal workload and ensuring process knowledge is accurate and up to date

Desirable

• Experience of agile development
• Hands on experience with major CRM platform (ie. Salesforce)