CRM Engineer

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VN-17962

Permanent

Flexible but will require travel to Cardiff on a semi regular basis

Competitive

9 April 2021

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We are looking for Salesforce maestro to lead the ongoing technical development of our salesforce.com deployment, working closely with functional leaders, organisational units, and subject matter experts to identify, develop and deploy new business processes through the customisation of the application. This role would particularly suit someone who can utilise the tool to its full potential!

  • You'll be responsible for the development of customised solutions within the salesforce platform by frequently communicating with internal stakeholders and analysing the business needs to ensure fitness for function
  • You will undertake the designing, coding, testing and implementation of salesforce applications to ensure quality within the system and meeting the specifications required by the business
  • Manage the salesforce environments, ensuring the stability and functionality of the platform and provide metrics to demonstrate failure areas which inform improvement plans, proactively mitigating any downtime or systems errors with project plans and areas of strategy
  • Manage salesforce.com data feeds and other integrations, through specific applications, connectors and API calls, keeping the information up to date and relevant enabling the sales team to carry out their activity
  • Responsible for the exploitation of the platform to advise in all functionality, features and benefits that could enable plan and ensure the business gets maximum benefit 
  • To work independently with members of the user community to define and document development requirements, sharing your expertise in a collaborative manner in order to maximise delivery
  • To work with the CRM Administrator to ensure the security of the salesforce platform

Qualifications: 

Degree or higher education qualification in Computer Science or equivalent will be an advantage.

Knowledge:

  • Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and prioritises simultaneous requests, and manage laterally and upwards.
  • Creative and analytical thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
  • Ability to assess the impact of new requirements on Salesforce.com and all upstream and downstream applications, systems and processes.

Experience:

  • Proven experience as a Salesforce.com engineer.
  • Salesforce.com Platform Developer I certified (or achieved within 12 months).
  • Experience of Apex, Triggers, Visualforce, Lightning components, force.com and custom settings.
  • Experience of Sales Cloud, both classic and lightning versions, and Pardot is essential.
  • Strong understanding of Salesforce.com best practices and functionality.
  • Strong data management abilities.
  • Previous experience working in a SCRUM or agile environment preferred.
  • Demonstrates logical and lateral thinking considering all angles in their decision making.

 

 

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days’ holiday, private medical insurance, discretionary performance related bonuses, paid overtime, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products. Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

 

About L&G

As a company, to be one of the world's largest Asset Managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurances brands, we are diverse by our very nature. And we're a company that wants to use our diversity and influence to make society better in the long term - for everyone. To do this we need to be a company that welcomes everyone, where everyone can succeed. That means we're committed to building an inclusive culture in L&G where we can all perform at our best, no matter who we are, what we do or where we do it. So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

About the business area

At Legal & General Insurance we look after our customers throughout life, death and everything in between so that you know that everything that’s important to you is protected. With over 180 years’ experience in providing Insurance policies, our customers trust us to be there and to do the right thing.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.

Our commitment to Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? We’re aware that candidates – especially women – can be put off from applying for a job unless they tick every box or because they don’t think they can achieve the flexibility they need. If this is you, we’re keen to connect; and whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’re very happy to have a discussion. So why not apply?

 

How to find out more

If you’d like more information about this opportunity please contact Reesa Berry at Reesa.Berry@landg.com (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reesaberry/). Please note direct applications via email cannot be accepted for this role; only applications submitted through our careers website will be considered.

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About L&G

As a company, to be one of the world's largest Asset Managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurances brands, we are diverse by our very nature. And we're a company that wants to use our diversity and influence to make society better in the long term - for everyone. To do this we need to be a company that welcomes everyone, where everyone can succeed. That means we're committed to building an inclusive culture in L&G where we can all perform at our best, no matter who we are, what we do or where we do it. So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

About the business area

At Legal & General Insurance we look after our customers throughout life, death and everything in between so that you know that everything that’s important to you is protected. With over 180 years’ experience in providing Insurance policies, our customers trust us to be there and to do the right thing.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.

Our commitment to Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? We’re aware that candidates – especially women – can be put off from applying for a job unless they tick every box or because they don’t think they can achieve the flexibility they need. If this is you, we’re keen to connect; and whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’re very happy to have a discussion. So why not apply?

 

How to find out more

If you’d like more information about this opportunity please contact Reesa Berry at Reesa.Berry@landg.com (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reesaberry/). Please note direct applications via email cannot be accepted for this role; only applications submitted through our careers website will be considered.