Salesforce Developer

Salesforce Developer – 6 Month Fixed-Term Contract Location: Remote Salary: £49,920 – £62,000 per annum Our client is a university offering courses in modern music, performing arts, filmmaking and creative technology. About the Role As Salesforce Developer, you will support the ongoing development and improvement of our client’s Salesforce platform. You will be part of a small delivery team that turns business requirements into scalable solutions for student and staff processes.

This is a hands‑on development role focused on building new functionality, maintaining existing components, and ensuring platform stability. What You’ll Do Design, build, and maintain Salesforce solutions using declarative tools and programmatic development (Apex, triggers, Lightning Web Components). Work closely with the Salesforce Business Analyst to translate requirements into technical designs and build plans.

Develop across areas such as admissions, recruitment, student lifecycle processes, and operational workflows. Carry out impact analysis to ensure changes align with existing architecture, integrations, and data models. Act as a technical escalation point for complex issues related to automation, permissions, data integrity, and system behaviour.

Support deployment and release processes, including testing, code reviews, and platform monitoring. Provide technical guidance to administrators, support teams, and stakeholders on best‑practice usage. Help improve development standards, documentation, and ways of working across the Salesforce environment.

Collaborate with internal developers, analysts, IT teams, and product owners across the University. What You’ll Bring Experience designing and building Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (or Aura), and declarative tools such as Flows. Strong understanding of Salesforce data models, security, and sharing architecture.

Ability to debug and resolve complex platform issues. Experience with version control and structured deployment practices. Clear and confident communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non‑technical colleagues.

A collaborative approach and willingness to contribute to shared development standards and continuous improvement. Travel: Though the role is remote, occasional travel to our client’s Brighton campus will be required. Benefits 25 days holiday per year (FTE) SMART pension A comprehensive benefits package They welcome applications from people of colour who are underrepresented in their organisation.

All successful applicants are required to complete a basic DBS disclosure. Depending on the role, an enhanced check or enhanced check with barred list may be required by statute and internal policy. #J-18808-Ljbffr