Senior Salesforce Developer - JISC : Job Details

Jisc is looking for a Senior Salesforce Developer to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis. This role is Hybrid with a blend of working from home and your nominated hub office, we have hubs in London, Bristol, Manchester and Oxford. Specific patterns for working in the office are not mandated, and the frequency of time worked in the office is agreed with your manager. Meeting in person is something we value so you may need to travel on occasion to any of our hub offices. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of circa £55,000 per annum negotiable depending on experience + fantastic benefits!

Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research, and innovation. We are a not-for-profit organisation with a big ambition to improve lives through education and research by providing hardware, software, and networking solutions. Our talented people bring their own unique skills and experience to empower our members and customers with the technology they need to succeed. Take your next career step with us and you can make a real difference to the education and research sector.

About the Senior Salesforce Developer role:

As a Senior Salesforce Developer, you will craft, code and implement customised solutions within the Salesforce platform. You will lead in the design, development, support, maintenance and protection of the platform at Jisc, playing a vital role in continually improving and enhancing the platform.

You’ll collaborate with multi-functional teams, including the DXP team, development and scrum masters and product owners to deliver high-quality solutions that meet business requirements. You will work and collaborate with stakeholders using your expertise to understand requirements, shaping process and supporting in translating these into development tasks.

This is a varied role where you will have the opportunity to work on a number on a diverse and exciting projects, taking responsibility to lead a team of developers in achieving key transformation and business performance activities.

At Jisc, we're committed to supporting you to develop yourself and your career, including obtaining additional certificates and qualifications. We provide a programme for aspiring leaders with the aim to raise the quality, consistency and diversity of leadership across the organisation, providing excellent learning opportunities, aligned with our strategy to deliver the skills and behaviours we need from our leaders.

Responsibilities will include:

• Provide line management and leadership for the Salesforce developers within the team and support their professional development in the role
• Advise on opportunities for Salesforce development to enhance corporate efficiency and effectiveness
• Actively contributes to the continuous improvement of policy and process within the team to promote best practice and adoption of industry frameworks including Agile and DevOps

Key Skills and Experience:

• Exposure to the following technologies: Salesforce SalesCloud for CRM and / or Salesforce CPQ
• Experience leading teams and projects – (this could be leadership skills outside of work)
• Demonstrable experience working within Agile and DevOps frameworks
• Proficiency using Visual Studio Code, Salesforce CLI and Extensions
• Knowledge in the following technologies: Copado / Conga / Adobe Sign (integrated) / JIRA / Confluence / GitHub would be advantageous
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
• Effective communication and collaboration skills

Some of our benefits:

• Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments
• 31 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) that includes an additional three closure days over Christmas plus the opportunity to buy up to an additional 5 days
• Generous flexible pension schemes
• Protection benefit – life cover
• Annual Jisc performance award
• A range of wellbeing lifestyle benefits including company paid health care cash plan, employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders and support
• A generous budget to support you with external learning and Continuous professional development
• Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office
• Financial well-being support including access to preferential loan and savings plans, mortgage advice, will writing tools and support and resources to help you make the most of your money
• The opportunity to donate to charity tax-free with our Payroll Giving benefit
• Electric Car Lease Scheme and option to purchase SmartTech – spreading the cost of your everyday white goods and technology
• A wide range of discounts from retailers and big-name high-street stores and CSSC membership
• Family friendly policies including enhanced parental, maternity and paternity leave and opportunity for career breaks
• Support your volunteering with up to 3 days volunteer leave
• Cycle to work scheme and eye care scheme including free eye test vouchers and £70 towards new glasses for VDU use
• Free flu vaccinations
• Employee recognition awards and travel loans
• A company culture which supports and promotes personal learning and development, including access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning

Don’t meet every single requirement?

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box, so we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet 100% of the requirements, but you feel this role is perfect for you. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

So, if you are looking for a new challenge then please click ‘apply’ today to be forwarded to our online recruitment portal and become our new Senior Salesforce Developer!