Senior Salesforce Developer

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About The Role

Team - Prospect, Advisor and Employer Journey - IT

Working Pattern - Hybrid - 2 days per week in our Vitality Bournemouth Office. Full time hours: 35 hours a week.

Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• An analytical mind
• To be able to mentor your team and show leadership
• Experience working on Salesforce Products

What this role is all about:

The Senior Salesforce Developer will oversee and implement the strategy for a key business area. You will mentor highly skilled, dedicated, agile developers in creating features and optimising the Salesforce platform to deliver priority initiatives that meet business objectives. You will assist the Salesforce Development Manager in the execution of high-level designs from concept stage to development to improve and enhance business processes.

The role involves leading a small team, working closely with other members in the CRM team, and collaborate with other members of the Vitality Salesforce structure. The Senior Salesforce Developer will assign and monitor their teams development items , however you may be will be required to support medium-to-large developments that fall within the remit of the wider Distribution CRM area.

Key Actions

• Mentor a team of developers, ensuring personnel and professional development KPIs are met.
• Development of the business specific features to support the aligned business areas operations.
• Build strong relationships within the business area, and ensure confidence in the platform capabilities remains at the highest level through communication and action.
• Ensure all changes to the CRM platform(s) are released as part of planned release cycles for the associated business areas.
• Work alongside the business areas Salesforce Point of Contact to communicate the relevant change requests, and ensure all bugs are appropriately resolved.
• Brief Salesforce Development Manager and Salesforce Point of Contact on all risks, issues, dependencies, and small change requests for reporting.
• Ensure adherence to Agile best practice as part of all developments.
• Ensure you understand and adhere to our Code of Conduct and where appropriate, comply with all relevant regulatory policies and mandatory training requirements.

Essential Skills needed to fulfil this role:

• Good investigative, analytical and logical problem solving skills.
• Experience working within Agile methodology and use of governance tools (ie. Confluence).
• Ability to communicate effectively with development team, management and business users.
• Familiarity with a variety of programming languages.
• Experience working on Salesforce products, implementing solutions using a variety of functionality options. This will include integration with other systems.
• Has attained Salesforce certifications, either in administration or development, and is working towards more advanced certifications.

So, what's in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes - A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%- We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance - With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance - Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, w e will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you've ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.

About You

About Us

We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!

Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.

We've been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives - they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We're successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people - and because we care.

Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.

Ready to find out if we're the right fit for you? We can't wait.

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Diversity & Inclusion

We're committed to diversity and inclusion because it's good for our employees, for our business, and for society. To learn more please visit our Careers page.

Vitality's approach to sustainability

Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid

If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.