Salesforce Developer

Job Title: Salesforce Developer

Division: Data, Technology and Innovation

Department: Digital Systems

• Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £65,000 to £75,000 and London from £70,000 to £85,000 per annum salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

• This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory

• Your recruitment contact is Benjamin via benjamin.paulon@fca.org.uk. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.

About the FCA and team

We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services.

The Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) division enables the FCA to be a digital-first, data-led smart regulator by delivering a secure, agile, and cost-effective technology and data ecosystem that drives better decisions, transparency, and operational efficiency.

Sitting within DTI, the Digital Systems team delivers the systems that enable the FCA to be a more effective and smarter regulator.

Role responsibilities

• Implement complex Salesforce solutions using declarative and programmatic platform tools such as Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows and Agentforce for Developers, enabling robust and scalable system capabilities and delivering high‑quality, secure and well‑architected solutions aligned with Salesforce best practice

• Act as the technical authority for Salesforce within a hybrid engineering team by applying Clean Code, SOLID principles and Apex Enterprise Patterns, elevating development consistency and standards and ensuring the team produces reliable, maintainable and future‑proof code

• Produce comprehensive and thorough testing through high‑coverage unit tests and close collaboration with testers on feature, performance and end‑to‑end testing, improving product stability and confidence in releases and supporting an effective Testing Pyramid approach

• Create and maintain clear technical documentation for all delivered solutions, improving clarity, knowledge sharing and long‑term supportability and ensuring stakeholders and developers can easily understand and extend the system

• Support and refactor existing Salesforce applications, resolving defects and improving performance, security and code quality, enhancing operational reliability and system lifespan and contributing to cleaner, more maintainable legacy codebases through recognised refactoring and design pattern principles

• Design, implement and maintain integrations between Salesforce and other platforms primarily via REST APIs, enabling seamless data exchange and process automation and supporting wider business functions through reliable and secure interoperability

• Collaborate across multidisciplinary and Agile teams, engaging closely with engineering, product and delivery stakeholders to gather requirements and align designs, ensuring solutions meet business objectives and compliance needs and promoting effective communication and smooth delivery throughout the software lifecycle

Skills required

Minimum:

• Demonstrated background in Apex Enterprise Patterns, advanced Salesforce Flows, and building Lightning Web Components (LWCs) to create scalable, maintainable solutions

• Deep knowledge of Clean Code and Clean Architecture standards, along with refactoring best practices and software design patterns

Essential:

• Experience using Copado as a native CI/CD tool to manage, automate, and deploy Salesforce changes across environments

• Deep knowledge of Salesforce architecture, data model, security model, and both declarative and programmatic development tools

• Experienced in diagnosing and resolving technical issues efficiently; Salesforce certifications are beneficial but not a replacement for practical experience

• Solid grasp of SOLID principles and Test‑Driven Development (TDD) practices

• Demonstrated background in Apex Enterprise Patterns, advanced Salesforce Flows, and building Lightning Web Components (LWCs) to create scalable, maintainable solutions

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors)

• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary

• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance

• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually

• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.

Our values & culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.

We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.

Disability Confident: our hiring approach

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.

Useful information and timeline

• Advert Closing: 6th April at 11:59pm

• CV Review/Shortlist: 8th April

• Technical Screening W/C: 13th April

• Interviews W/C: 27th April

• Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.