Senior Salesforce Developer - Hybrid/London/Oxford

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services organization seeks a Senior Salesforce Developer for a 12-month contract. The role involves acting as a Subject Matter Expert on the Salesforce stack while ensuring sound deployment and adherence to best practices. Successful applicants will have a robust background in Salesforce development and related certifications, with a focus on effective collaboration and project management.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Extensive development experience with Salesforce and related certifications.
• Strong understanding of building scalable solutions on Salesforce Platform.

Responsibilities

• Act as CRM trusted advisor for business unit projects throughout all phases.
• Estimate work efforts for projects and manage design, development, and implementation.
• Provide technical expertise for complex projects and integrations.

Skills

Salesforce

Agile

Communication

Analytical Skills

Technical Project Management

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Copado

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Salesforce Developer - Hybrid/London/Oxford
Location: Remote with occasional travel to their London or Oxford office
Salary/Rate: Up to £375 a day inside ir35
Start Date: June
Job Type: 12 Month Contract (With scope to extend)

Company Introduction

We are looking for a Senior Salesforce Developer to join our client, who are a global professional services organization on a 12-month contract.

The Salesforce Senior Developer acts as the Subject Matter Expert for the Salesforce technology stack; primary responsibilities include identification, documentation, and prioritisation 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: The organisation has a functionally sound and stable Salesforce deployment, that the desired level of standardisation 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 minimising business disruption.

Required Skills/Experience

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or related field
• Extensive development experience with Salesforce
• Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant certification ()
• Development experience with Salesforce CPQ ()
• Development experience with Conga CLM ()
• Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator certification
• Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder certification
• DevOps platform experience (eg Copado)
• Strong understanding of how to build and support highly scalable and reliable solutions on Salesforce Platform
• Experience working in Agile projects and managing workload with JIRA
• Proven ability to manage and resolve complex and ambiguous technical issues
• Demonstrated success with at least one large Salesforce integration project
• Experience with cloud or on-premise Middleware and other enterprise integration technologies
• 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

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

• 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 design, development, and implementation responsibility
• 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, trouble-shooting, 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

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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