Salesforce Developer

Job description

*Please note that this role is a 6-month contract position*

The Salesforce Developer will be responsible for carrying out Salesforce development to deliver Aviva's CRM system as part of an Agile delivery team within one of Aviva's key business areas. We are looking for someone who has demonstrable Salesforce development expertise and can work as part of a team to identify requirements, develop solutions and deliver to agreed quality levels.

This role is part of Aviva's Commercial team which works to support multiple business units but your specific area will be in bringing Workplace Savings & Retirement (WS&R) onto the Corporate Salesforce platform.

As well as expertise in Salesforce Development, there's a lot of relationship management involved as you will be collaborating with colleagues across the Aviva business. It's a great role for someone who enjoys working in different scenarios, managing a variety of needs and expectations and providing influence where required.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work with Aviva's WS&R teams to understand their business needs, analyse requirements and assist in developing designs in Salesforce.
• Delivery of Salesforce configuration and code customisation to meet requirements.
• Support testing - work with functional testers and perform functional testing where needed.
• Support UAT - assist with writing scenario-based testing & translating feedback back into the development team.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Experienced in Salesforce development and build projects.
• A strong understand of the project life cycle process, ideally within an agile (SCRUM) environment
• Confident communicating and building relationships with internal/external partners and colleagues of varying levels of seniority - able to adapt your approach to suit technical and non-technical staff.
• Demonstrable experience in gathering requirements from end users and translating and delivering solutions.
• Technology literate, with a particular understanding of how systems interface and exchange data.
• Ability to be dynamic and flexible in light of changing circumstances and adapt strategies and activities accordingly.
• Self-starter with high level of personal organisation, attention to detail, assertiveness, tenacity and integrity.

What will you get for this role?

• Pro rata annual salary of up to £110,000 depending on skills, qualifications and experience.
• Generous defined contribution pension scheme.
• Pro rata annual holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days.
• Up to 30% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family (some exclusions apply).
• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme.

Oh and by the way…

At Aviva we always ‘Care More'. It's our thing. We're all about our people – that's you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you need to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we're very open to that. We'll even try to bend work around your further studies or hobbies where we can.

We care deeply about welcoming people no matter where they're from, how old they are or what disability they have. We encourage applications from every age, race, ethnicity, disability, gender, gender identity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, maternity or caring responsibility. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

As part of that we interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Just send us an email once you've applied, and we'll make sure we interview you.

If you like the sound of all that, we'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you need an alternative method of applying, please give Megan Douglas a call on: 0121 234 7665 or send an email to: megan.douglas@aviva.com.

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria' we mean you must provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.