Senior Salesforce Developer

Salary

£67712 - £71275

Hours

37.5 hours per week

Closing date

8am Wednesday 6 May

Interview date

TBC

Senior Salesforce Developer
£67712 – £71275 37.5 hours per week
Leicester based LE3 1UT with hybrid working
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK as we are unable to offer sponsorship

Benefits include:
Up to 42 days annual leave (pro rata), life insurance and sick pay
Enrolment in health cash back plan to cover every day healthcare needs
Free access to virtual GP, Health and Stress support plus gym discount
Cycle to work scheme / close to park and ride at Leicester Forest East
Subsidised short breaks at selected RAFA Accommodation

About us
The RAF (Royal Air Forces) Association has a clear objective: to help sustain a resilient and empowered RAF community. Through our sector-leading welfare and wellbeing services, we offer a wide range of support to serving personnel, veterans and their families. With thousands of members and supporters across the UK and further afield, plus hundreds of dedicated employees and volunteers, we have the network and experience needed for a personal one-to-one approach. We work together to make sure no one is ever left behind.

About the role
The Senior Salesforce Developer is responsible for leading the design recommendations, configuration, development and system testing of salesforce.com related digital transformation projects. You will be required to design appropriate solutions for new projects as they arise and work alongside third parties as appropriate to deliver successful implementations that provide services to members, supporters and beneficiaries of the RAF Association. The post also requires you to lead and mentor a team to ensure development standards are delivered in line with the Associations digital transformation strategic objectives. Primary Responsibilities include

Lead the inhouse development team to deliver Salesforce digital transformation projects.
Work with the CRM Business Analyst to lead the transformation of business requirements into Salesforce implementations and customisations.
Create and maintain Reports and Dashboards.
Develop Salesforce community portals, managing portal users, managing and building lightning portal components & lightning apps for both mobile and desktop applications.
Maintain and demonstrate compliance with all written policies and change management controls.
Configure and maintain “sandbox” environments to facilitate successful development and QA testing of new on-demand features and functionality.
Undertake Release Management tasks required to promote tested functionality from sandbox into a production environment.
Develop and implement training for users.
Logging and tracking identified system problems through to resolution.
Create and maintain documentation on processes, policies, application configuration and help related materials for users as database applications are developed.

About you
A Salesforce Developer qualification is essential for this role (for example ADM 201 certified, DEV401 or Platform Developer 1& 2) along with extensive Salesforce.com system design and configuration experience. You will be comfortable working with Apex Classes, Triggers, Visualforce and ETL tools such as APEX Dataloader and have extensive experience of workflows and customisations to support Salesforce functional capability. Previous experience of leading a Salesforce development team is essential along with the ability to translate complex information to a range of stake holders and system users.

Want to join us?
You may find it helpful to have a look at our website and social media to find out more about who we are and what we do. To make your application really stand out, please take some time to include a cover letter to tell us how your skills and experience align with our role profile and person specification. Relevant supporting cover letters lead to a better chance of shortlisting for interview.

To apply, please send your cover letter and CV to jobs@rafa.org.uk

Closing Date 8am Wednesday 6 May

Due to the high volume of expected applications, we may close this advert early so please do not delay in applying, we’d love to hear from you!

The RAF Association is a Disability Confident employer. Please let us know if you require any assistance with your application.