Salesforce Developer

• CErtified Salesforce Developer with strong Apex coding skills
• No Sponsorship is avaiable for this role
• 2 days a week in central Birminghma office is a must

We are retained by an organisation in the Higher Education sector to find them a Salesforce Developer. This is a permanent role with a basic salary in the range of £55,000-£65,000. The company is based in Birmingham and will require 2 days per week to be in their central Birmingham offices, less than a 10-minute walk from Birmingham New Street station. The rest can be remote working.

Here are the details of the role:

The Salesforce Developer role will work closely with key internal stakeholders to drive the successful set up and ongoing maintenance of the Salesforce platform while liaising with third party providers. In additional this role will be responsible for development of the Salesforce platform and assist in managing the continuous improvement of the platform. As a key platform to managing students internally, the role plays a major part in enabling teams to deliver the highest level of customer service and student experience possible.

Reports to Salesforce Platform Manager

Major Challenges

• Enabling internal teams to deliver a high quality, consistent student experience.
• Stable development of the Salesforce platform using APEX, VisualForce Workflows, Triggers & Salesforce.com technologies
• Identifying and delivering process improvements in an evolving landscape
• Ensure data between Salesforce and our partners systems is consistent and clean
• Establishing and maintaining effective, professional relationships with senior managers, peers and partners

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver ongoing Salesforce enhancements
• Salesforce administration and support
• Identify and implement Salesforce workflow improvements
• Ensure data issues are identified and root cause addressed
• Liaising with third party development teams
• Functionality walkthrough for new enhancements for existing and new staff

Essential Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• At least 4-6 years of experience in CRM domain and 3+ years of experience in Salesforce implementations with sound knowledge on Salesforce Sales cloud, Service and community Cloud.
• Fluent in Apex Code such as triggers, classes, test methods; Lightning Web Components (LWC), Aura components, Visualforce, SOQL,SOSL and other relevant technologies on the Salesforce platform
• Good level of experience with CI/CD
• Hands-on experience in integrating 3rd party systems such as oAuth and REST
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage priorities effectively, and meet project deadlines.
• Deliver ongoing Salesforce enhancements. Developing Salesforce functionality to enhance business use of the platform.
• Strong understanding of custom development best practices, governor limits, and security considerations within the Salesforce platform.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience defining and delivering enterprise applications on the Salesforce platform.
• Ability to understand and be responsive to customer needs and to advocate for customer success Experience defining and delivering enterprise.
• Certifications: Salesforce Platform Developer I and preferably Salesforce Platform Developer II

If this is you and you have the relevant experience I would like to hear back from you and arrange an initials screening and briefing call.
My availability next week for a call is as follows:
Monday 22nd September

0800-0930
10.30- 1400
1500-17.30

Tuesday 23rd September
0800-1130
1430=1630

Wednesday 24th September
0800-1700

Thursday 25th September
0800-1700

Please reply giving a selection of dates and times that work plus an updated CV, confirmation of where you live and that you can commit to 2 days per week in a central Birmingham office location and an indication of salary expectations.

No Sponsorship is being offered for this role.