Salesforce Senior Developer

RELX Group; Oxford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Pension plan

Employee discounts

Generous vacation

Job summary

RELX Group in Oxford seeks a Salesforce Senior Developer to act as the SME for the Salesforce stack, documenting business requirements and shaping the application strategy, standards and best practices across phased implementations.

You will ensure a stable Salesforce deployment, drive standardization of processes, reduce project risks by leveraging standard solutions, and apply deep technical expertise to meet business objectives with minimal disruption in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive Salesforce development experience is required.
• Experience with Salesforce CPQ and Revenue Cloud is preferred.
• Demonstrated success delivering large Salesforce integrations.
• Strong communication to technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Act as CRM trusted advisor across requirement gathering, design, development, testing and deployment.
• Estimate work efforts; lead design, development and implementation.
• Provide product and technical scoping for complex projects.
• Review code for best practices and fit-for-purpose development.
• Monitor integrations and assess future integration needs.
• Document knowledge sharing: technical, business process, reference architecture.

Skills

Salesforce

Sales Cloud

CPQ

Revenue Cloud

Advanced Admin

Agile

JIRA

Cloud integration

Technical leadership

Requirements analysis

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / MIS

Tools

Copado

Gearset

MuleSoft

Conga CLM

Jenkins

Job description

Role Overview

The Salesforce Senior Developer acts as the Subject Matter Expert for the Salesforce technology stack; primary responsibilities include identification, documentation, and prioritization of business requirements, development of the application strategy needed to satisfy requirements, definition of the Salesforce standards and best practices for implementing solutions, and execution of required development throughout phased implementation. The primary objective of this role is to ensure that Elsevier has a functionally sound and stable Salesforce deployment, that the desired level of standardization of business processes is being achieved, that project risks and costs are reduced by leveraging standard solutions and Salesforce best practices, and that deep expertise is applied to ensure business objectives are met while minimizing business disruption.,

Key Responsibilities

• Act as CRM trusted advisor in support of business unit projects through all phases of requirement gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment; product demonstration and use-case modelling, business process development and related configuration, alignment and buy-in with stakeholders, direct support of business unit staff during launch, etc.
• Estimate work efforts required for each phase of a project or ticket, direct responsibility for design, development, and implementation.
• Provide product and technical expertise when scoping complex projects and related integrations.
• Review code and solution summaries where appropriate to ensure adherence to best practices and fit-for-purpose development.
• Integration monitoring, troubleshooting, and future integration requirement assessment, design, and development
• Documentation and knowledge sharing; technical, business process, best practice, reference architecture, etc.
• Applies advanced Salesforce technical principles and concepts; contributes to the development of new principles and concepts.
• Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
• Works under consultative direction toward predetermined long-range goals and objectives; determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.

Qualifications and Experience

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS, or related field
• 6+ years of previous development experience with Salesforce
• Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant certification (preferred)
• Development experience with Salesforce CPQ (preferred)
• Development experience with Salesforce Revenue Cloud (preferred)
• Development experience with Conga CLM (preferred)
• Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator certification.
• Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder certification
• DevOps platform experience preferred (e.g., Copado, Gearset)
• Experience with MuleSoft preferred (or other enterprise integration technologies)
• Demonstrated success with at least one large Salesforce integration project.
• Strong understanding of how to build and support highly scalable and reliable solutions on the Salesforce Platform
• Experience working in Agile projects and managing workload with JIRA.
• Proven ability to manage and resolve complex and ambiguous technical issues.
• Technical project management experience
• Understanding of UI design principles and best practices
• Exceptional analytical skills and experience working with large-scale, complex datasets.
• Communication skills for both technical and business audiences

Company Overview

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world., RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions. Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.

Benefits

Working for you We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Home, office, or commuting allowance.
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
• Flexible working hours
• Personal Choice budget
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Employee Assistance Program (global)