Salesforce Solution Designer

Join us at Barclays as a Salesforce Solution Designer and be passionate about designing scalable, innovative Salesforce solutions that power meaningful customer experiences. At Barclays, we’re looking for a Salesforce Designer to shape and deliver enterprise-grade solutions across our Sales and Service platforms. As a key member of our technology team, you’ll play a pivotal role in defining architecture, guiding best practice design, and driving digital transformation across the organisation.

Key Skills

• Salesforce Architecture & Solution Design – Proven experience designing end-to-end Salesforce solutions within complex enterprise environments.
• Sales and Service Cloud expertise – Strong functional and technical knowledge across both clouds.
• Platform Development and Automation – Hands-on experience with Apex, Lightning components, integrations, and workflow/flow automation.

• Integration & API Expertise – Experience integrating Salesforce with third-party systems using REST/SOAP APIs, middleware, and event-driven architectures.
• Dev Ops & Release Management – Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control, deployment frameworks, and environment management.
• Salesforce Certifications – Certifications such as Application Architect, System Architect, or Platform Developer are highly valued.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

This role is based out of our Knutsford office.

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated…