Salesforce Developer - 3 X Positions

Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 116,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions is seeking Salesforce Developers to deliver enhancements across multiple Salesforce instances in an Agile setting. You will be responsible for technical development, solution design, and release management, with a goal to obtain Salesforce certifications within 12 months with departmental support.

Three fixed-term 12-month positions are available, based in Melbourne (121 Exhibition Street) with potential flexible arrangements.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in Salesforce Sales Cloud development with configuration and customization.
• Experience delivering Lightning UIs and components in Agile environments.
• Ability to design integrations between Salesforce and other platforms.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Agile ceremonies and plan development tasks with Jira/Jenkins usage.
• Develop Lightning interfaces and components on the Salesforce platform.
• Design and implement integrations with Office 365, Oracle and Salesforce.
• Manage deployment steps and maintain code repositories in CI/CD

Skills

Salesforce development

Lightning Web Components

Apex

Visualforce

JavaScript & JQuery

Agile / SDLC

Tools

Jira

Bitbucket

Illuminated Cloud

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Salesforce Developer - 3 x Positions

• Salary: $116,413 - $140,849 (Plus superannuation)
• Fixed-term positions for 12 months
• Usual hours of work: Full-time ((flexibility may be available)
• Usual work location: 121 Exhibition Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 (flexibility may be available)

The Role

The Salesforce Developer will deliver enhancements in an Agile environment across the department's multiple Salesforce instances. The Salesforce Developer is responsible for Salesforce technical development and solution design, integrations with other platforms, delivery, and release management. The role provides strategy recommendations for Salesforce development, including technology approaches, security, apps, and third-party tools that deliver best practice outcomes. This role comes with an expectation that Salesforce certification and Trailhead badges will be obtained within 12 months of commencing and this will be supported by the department. Demonstrated experience in Salesforce development, including configuration and customization. The role is part of a multidisciplinary team of business analysts, support staff and Salesforce developers. The team is responsible for supporting the department's multiple Salesforce instances and approximately 2500 users.

Key accountabilities

• Participation in all Agile ceremonies including planning, sizing, and daily standups for all development tasks. This will include usage of Atlassian Jira, Bitbucket, Illuminated Cloud, Jenkins and Agile development toolsets.
• Analysis and review of business requirements, definition, and delivery of technical coding strategies. This will include development of Lightning UIs and components on the Salesforce platform.
• Contribute to design, development and support of integrations between platforms (e.g. Office 365, Oracle and Salesforce) that deliver best practice outcomes.
• Implementation of requirements in the development environment, including solution and functional architecture, testing and deployment steps into production.
• Mange code repositories and test classes as required under the department's continuous integration processes, including the use of Bitbucket and Jenkins.

The Team

The position of Salesforce Developer will work within Information Services / Strategic Platforms branch which sits within Corporate Services Group. The Corporate Services group consists of specialist functions including finance, investment and procurement, performance and governance, legal and legislation, people and culture, information technology and workplace services and emergency management. These functions enable the department to operate efficiently and effectively and support the Secretary and Ministers to meet legislative obligations and responsibilities whilst actively supporting the department's portfolio groups and Ministers to create the conditions for growing Victoria's prosperity, building the productive capacity of our economy, and increasing participation.

About You

• Demonstrated expertise in Salesforce Sales Cloud technical development and solution design, including configuration and customization, preferably in a support or Agile development environment using Visualforce, Apex, Aura Components, Lightning Web Components, JavaScript and JQuery.
• Ability to provide strategy recommendations for development, including provision of recommendations on technology approaches, security, apps and third-party tools that deliver best practice outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience in managing changes through different development environments, in compliance with organizational change management policies and processes.
• Capability in technical delivery and release management from solution and functional architecture deliverables, through the full SDLC including usage of Source Control tools (e.g. Bitbucket, Git) and test strategies.

Further Information

For a confidential discussion, please Kasun Perera, Salesforce Development Lead via email [e-mail] The department is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation. We have zero tolerance of child abuse and are committed to taking the necessary steps to protect children from harm by adopting a preventative, proactive and participatory approach to child safety in accordance with the Child Safe Standards. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Records Check prior to commencing employment with the Department. For further information on the position, please refer to the attached position description.

Applications close

Applications close at 23:59pm on Monday, 26 October 2026.