Job Description

Excited to grow your career?

Our purpose is to \'empower people to save and invest with confidence\'. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don\'t tick every box. If you\'re excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we\'re looking for, please go ahead and apply. We\xe2\x80\x99d love to hear from you!

About the role

Salesforce Development Lead

We are looking for talented people to join our CRM team as we embark upon the implementation of Salesforce as our strategic CRM solution.

If you are someone with a wealth of Salesforce experience and want to work on a green field implementation, then we could have a role for you.

This is an opportunity to join the UK\'s number one investment services company, looking after over \xc2\xa3120 billion in assets on behalf of 1.8 million UK investors. We are a secure, FTSE 100 company, based in the heart of Bristol now with over 1,700 people. This is your chance to genuinely stamp your mark on one of the UK\'s most innovative and digital-focused businesses. You\'ll be given the support and opportunity to grow your career whilst additionally receiving a personal development budget to further build on your knowledge.

Managerial Accountabilities

• Build and nurture a high performing squad, consistently delivering quality software while balancing requirements and time frames.
• Foster careers of engineers by finding opportunities for growth, coaching, and addressing concerns.
• Holding regular 121s with all direct reports.
• Taking ownership of the delivery of outcomes and initiatives for the squad, working closely with the Product Manager and internal stakeholders
• Lead and contribute adherence to engineering and architectural patterns and practices.
• Lead and evangelise team squad on Performance, Availability, Reliability, Compliance and Security.
• Contribute to the definition of features owned by the squad.
• Continuously improve themselves and the team by suggesting and helping implement new Engineering, Security and Compliance practices.
• Effectively communicate the squad,s progress to the wider team, line manager and HL colleagues.

Technical Accountabilities

• Participate in the full application life cycle - design, development, testing, and deployment
• Design, develop and integrate Salesforce apps and components with back-office systems using modern web tools and technologies
• Work with technical teams and architects to finalise architectural specifications - and create solution and integration designs
• Develop proofs of concept as needed during the design and requirements phase to evaluate products and integration strategies
• Validate application code using unit tests, security tests, and profiling tools
• Assist in identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving defects encountered during various stages of project delivery, including during the deployment and implementation of the solution in production environments
• Produce project documentation, including functional and technical designs, and end-user guides
• Grow professionally by learning and implementing Salesforce\'s latest technologies
• Maintain standards and best practices and educate our team
• Mentor developers, while learning from others
• Review Salesforce Release Notes to have familiarity with new additions and enhancements
• Contribute to internal practice development initiatives (e.g., re-usable assets, hiring, etc.)

Why Us?

Here at HL, we\xe2\x80\x99re the UK\xe2\x80\x99s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we\xe2\x80\x99ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We\'re steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What\'s on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* & annual pay review
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure time
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year at annual enrolment
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HL\xe2\x80\x99s future
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare
• Help@hand and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Gympass - gym memberships and wellbeing apps available
• Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities
• An inhouse barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks
• Join HL\xe2\x80\x99s sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)
• LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers

• dependant on role level

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis \xe2\x80\x93 please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.

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