Salesforce Lead Developer

Here at Cognizant, we work with clients across the UK to help modernise their businesses.

Cognizant's Salesforce services span across Consulting & Advisory services, design, implementation, and continuous value enhancement. Our customers especially value our ability to provide Salesforce advisory and execution capabilities for complex end-to-end multi-cloud, multi country deployments across the entire spectrum of Customer Experience (CX), be it Sales, Service (including Field Service), Marketing, Commerce, Analytics & Integration. Our dedicated Salesforce practice harnesses the full power of Salesforce products and innovations, while leveraging our design thinking, consultive approach, and CX expertise to create new digital experiences for customers.

We are currently recruiting a Salesforce Developer to join our team. If you are an experience Salesforce professional who would love to support multiple concurrent projects from solution design, build, implementation and post implementation, this role is for you. In this role you will also work with testers and other members of the scrum team including members outside the scrum team.

This role is based in London and requires travel to the client’s office 2 times/ week.

Some of your key responsibilities will be to:

Support the deployments through the use of the DevOps tooling (code respository, Jenkins, etc). Test execution and Code coverage validation. Monitor code quality during the code reviews to ensure it meets the relevant standards. Maintain a Kanban board to document, organise and schedule code reviews. Review apex test classes to align to standards and contain methods with valid business scenarios. Ensure the team develops items to the DOD – (include things like solution design, documented peer review). Being accountable for ensuring data model changes are approved and recorded. Proof of Concepts (POCs). Test Plan, Script. Identify release readiness activities, creating detailed implementation plans, managing deployment rehearsals and ensure live implementations are controlled and managed appropriately to agree governance controls i.e. attending the Release Control Board.

The experience you will need to demonstrate:

Salesforce architecture. Service Cloud. Experience Cloud. Salesforce Classic - Lightning Web Components/ Aura. Great documentation skills that can be understood by technical and non-technical audience. Presentation skills.

The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world. We don’t just dream of a better way – we make it happen. We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what’s right. We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that’s right for you.

About us:
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

Disclaimer: 
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.