Join Barclays as a Salesforce Platform Engineer, where you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining scalable Salesforce solutions to meet our enterprise needs. This role requires strong expertise in Salesforce modular development, integration, and CI/CD practices to enable efficient, secure, and robust platform management across multiple organisations.
Key Responsibilities
1. Modular Development & 2nd-Generation Packaging (2GP): Deep understanding of modular development principles and significant experience with Salesforce 2GP, enabling the creation of reusable packages that support streamlined deployment, maintenance, and versioning in multi-org environments.
2. Salesforce Development & Customization: Proficiency in Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and Salesforce Flows to design scalable and reusable solutions, including work with Connected Apps and the Salesforce Object Model.
3. Integration Expertise: Strong background in API integration and middleware usage to seamlessly connect Salesforce with various enterprise systems and platforms.
4. Data Management: Comprehensive knowledge in data migration, ETL processes, and best practices to maintain data integrity and quality across systems.
5. DevOps & CI/CD (GitLab): Proficiency with GitLab version control and CI/CD pipelines, using automation to enhance testing, deployment, and integration.
6. Code Efficiency & Reuse: Solid understanding of combining Salesforce’s as-a-service features with both low-code and pro-code practices to optimize for maintainability and performance.
7. Security & Compliance: Expertise in Salesforce security configurations, including roles, profiles, permission sets, and industry compliance standards.
8. Analytical Skills: Exceptional problem-solving skills and a proven ability to handle complex issues in multi-org environments.
Additional Skills
1. Multi-Org Experience: Experience managing multi-org environments with an understanding of org strategy, data sharing, and governance.
2. Transition & Migration Expertise: Background in transitioning monolithic systems to hybrid or fully modular solutions.
3. Salesforce Certifications: Relevant Salesforce certifications (e.g., Platform Developer I/II, Administrator) to validate your technical skills.
4. Automation Tools: Familiarity with automated testing and monitoring tools to ensure ongoing platform quality.
5. Financial Services Knowledge: Experience in Salesforce implementations within Financial Services.
6. Metadata & Tooling APIs: Experience using Salesforce Metadata API and Tooling API for DevOps or analytics purposes.
7. Inner-Source Development: Familiarity with best practices in concurrent development and branching strategies within an inner-source model.
8. Multi-package Namespaces: Experience with multi-package namespace management for enhanced modularity and organization.
Location
This role is based in Northampton.
Purpose of the Role
To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
Accountabilities
1. Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
2. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
3. Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
4. Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
5. Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
6. Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
7. Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
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