Senior Salesforce Developer (DevOps)

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Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!

About the role

As our organization continues to grow and evolve, our reliance on Salesforce as a critical business platform has increased significantly. We have engaged an excellent partner to spearhead new development initiatives, laying a robust foundation for our Salesforce ecosystem. However, to ensure the sustainability and continued success of these efforts, we are building out a dedicated internal team to manage and continuously improve our Salesforce offering.
The Senior Salesforce DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the continuous development of the Salesforce platform, with a focus on our DevOps processes. This role requires a deep understanding of Salesforce capabilities and best practices, in particular an optimised deployment process including the use of Salesforce Packages and other deployment tools.

Key responsibilities include

• Continuous Improvement: Developing new and enhancing existing capability on the Salesforce Platform. This includes staying abreast of new features and updates, and proactively suggesting and executing improvements.
• Customization and Integration: Building on the work initiated by our consultant, the Senior Salesforce DevOps Engineer will ensure that our Salesforce instance is tailored to meet our unique business needs and is seamlessly integrated with other critical systems.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Set up and manage continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines specific to Salesforce, ensuring seamless and automated build, test, and deployment processes.
• Version Control and Branching: Utilize version control systems like Git to manage Salesforce code, configurations, and metadata, and implement effective branching, merging, and versioning strategies.
• Environment Configuration and Maintenance: Configure and maintain Salesforce environments, including sandboxes and production instances, ensuring consistency and proper configuration across all environments.
• Automation and Scripting: Develop and maintain scripts to automate repetitive tasks such as deployments, data migrations, and environment setups, improving efficiency and reducing manual effort.
• Automated Testing Integration: Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with QA teams to enhance testing strategies, ensuring that all changes are thoroughly tested before deployment.
• Collaboration and Documentation: Work closely with development, QA, operations, and business teams to ensure smooth delivery of Salesforce applications, and create and maintain comprehensive documentation for DevOps processes, tools, and best practices.

By bringing a Senior Salesforce DevOps Engineer on board, we aim to cultivate a seamless, efficient, and user-friendly Salesforce environment that supports our strategic goals and enhances our operational capabilities.

What you’ll be doing

• Developing new features on the Salesforce Platform.
• Configuring CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment of Salesforce code.
• Monitoring pipeline performance and addressing any issues that arise.
• Writing scripts to automate deployments, data migrations, and other repetitive tasks.
• Continuously improving automation scripts and processes.
• Setting up and maintaining various Salesforce environments (development, QA, production).
• Ensuring environments are properly configured and consistent.
• Working with developers to ensure code is properly versioned and integrated.
• Collaborating with QA teams to incorporate automated testing into the deployment process.
• Responding to incidents and performing root cause analysis to prevent future issues.
   

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce best practices and functionality.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Salesforce Lightning Experience, including Lightning components and App Builder.
• Knowledge of Apex, Visualforce, and Salesforce development best practices.
• Experience with third-party Dev-Ops applications such as Gearset, and the metadata API.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools.
• Previous experience in a senior or lead role.

Working Schedule

Hybrid role with ability to travel to the Bristol Office as required.

Why us?

Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

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Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.