Remote Salesforce Developer

Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 per annum

Employment type: Permanent

Hours per week: 37

Reporting into: Lead Salesforce Developer

Department: IT

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This role operates primarily on a remote working arrangement that could require monthly attendance at one of our UK sties for team meetings. Our remote working model arrangements are a non-contractual benefit which could change at any point during your employment, so for this reason an Arden work location is added to our employment contracts.

Unfortunately we cannot sponsor skilled worker visas for this role.

About Arden University:

We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education, by leading the thoughtful integration of AI into teaching and learning and equipping our students to thrive in an AI-enabled world.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.

About our Department:

The Salesforce Developer sits within our Technology Department that is crucial to making sure our employees and students can work effectively, deliver projects, find the right solutions and ensure we develop the technology that will make the biggest difference.

Our IT team is made up of around 65 employees with a vast range of skills from Software Development to IT Operations and Security.

Our IT Department values employee development and we have lots of great examples of employee progression and promotions within the team.

About the Opportunity:

As an experienced Salesforce Developer within Arden University’s Technology team, you’ll play a key role in designing, developing and maintaining solutions across our Salesforce platform, helping us deliver technology that creates value for our students, colleagues and wider University.

You’ll work across Salesforce Service Cloud and Sales Cloud, designing and building solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components and declarative automation. You’ll also develop and support integrations, contribute to technical solution design and take ownership of assigned development work, ensuring solutions are delivered to a high standard and in line with agreed development practices.

Alongside development, you’ll contribute to BAU support, technical investigations, releases and continuous improvement, helping to maintain and enhance the Salesforce platform as our needs evolve. You’ll work closely with Functional Consultants, Business Analysts, Administrators and the Lead Salesforce Developer to understand requirements and deliver effective technical solutions.

This is a hands-on development role where you’ll have the opportunity to work independently on complex development tasks, while also sharing your knowledge and supporting the development of less experienced members of the team. It’s an exciting opportunity to make a direct contribution to the continued development of Salesforce at Arden University and the services it provides to our students and colleagues.

About You:

If you're passionate about Salesforce development, thrive on solving complex technical challenges, and want to lead the delivery of enterprise-scale solutions in a collaborative and purpose-driven environment, we'd love to hear from you

Essential requirements:

• Salesforce Platform Developer I and Platform Developer II certifications.

• Salesforce Platform Administrator or Platform App Builder certification.

• 5+ years’…