Santander Bank

Salesforce Technical Lead | S3 | CIO Mortgages

Country: United Kingdom

Interested in part-time, job-share or flexible working? We want to talk to you!

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A fantastic opportunity has become available to join the CIO Homes team as a Salesforce Tech Lead, to work on a set of projects on a brand new Salesforce implementation spanning multiple clouds (Sales, Service, Financial Services, Experience and Shield) to help re-platform legacy systems and place Salesforce at the heart of the business. The projects will also be a reimagining of the

business processes and the customer journey providing an opportunity to use Salesforce to transform the current landscape. 

Beyond delivery, there will also be a need to build out the Salesforce function and establish best practise.

The projects will make a huge difference to both customer and colleague experience as well as moving the bank forward with a cloud centric strategy. They will form part of a wider bank Salesforce transformation and this will provide further opportunities for candidates to work in different areas - support will also be given for further learning on the Salesforce platform in the form of certifications.

The difference you’ll make

• Designing, implementing, and testing new functionalities and features in Salesforce to meet business needs. Build of both custom/standard components on the Salesforce platform, using the most appropriate platform capability
• Making appropriate use of Flows, Apex, LWC and other technologies to ensure solutions are built to high standards, making appropriate use of enterprise design patterns when writing custom code
• Refining technical user stories as required, articulate clearly the technical solution required to meet a specific requirement
• Building (hands-on coding) of more complex areas of the requirements
• Supporting the Tech team with ensuring best practises are adhered to, providing mentorship and code review feedback as required
• Acting as the single point of contact for development team, triaging and prioritising issues as required

What you’ll bring:

• Extensive experience in Salesforce development with Salesforce cloud expertise
• Highly skilled in Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Components, and Lightning Web Components
• Understanding of Salesforce governor limits and performance optimization principles for efficient and scalable applications for a large active user base
• Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud & Salesforce Eco-System
• Expertise in large-scale integration using SOAP, REST, Streaming (including Lightning Events), and Metadata APIs, facilitating the seamless connection of Salesforce with other systems
• Salesforce Certification (Salesforce Platform Developer II)

It would also be nice for you to have

• Comfortable and effective in leading developer, ensuring project success and team cohesion
• Financial Services industry experience
• Experience implementing Experience Cloud solutions at enterprise organisations
• Experience in working in both agile and waterfall methodologies &TDD
• Experience of development outside the Salesforce platform, i.e. React/Angular/Java projects
• Experience of working with unlocked packages

What else you need to know

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and we recognise that many people benefit from flexible arrangements. To enable us to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop we understand the importance of having the right balance of spending time together in an office while maintaining flexibility.

By working this way, we can continue to create moments that matter for everyone. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and we’re happy to discuss specific requirements throughout the recruitment process.

This role is based in Milton Keynes and our current expectation is at least 2 days in the office every week.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Application process

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team. If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review. For this position, the interview process will be:

1st Stage – Technical Interview – this will be a 30 min technical interview with one of the team.

2nd Stage – A one-hour formal interview where we will ask both technical and competency-based questions. This can be done virtually or face to face depending on your situation.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains, and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Competitive salary
• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs
• service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
• £6,000 car allowance per year
• Company funded individual private medical insurance
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical
• insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit,
• income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
• Share in Santander’s success by investing in our share plans 

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

What to do next:

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face.

You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk or call 0870 414 9080.