Salesforce Architect

Full Time
London, UK
5 months ago
About us

At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We also believe that bank account data is a powerful tool to make better, faster decisions. We’re making it easy to use both- for businesses everywhere.  

GoCardless is used for domestic and international payments by 85,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We’re an award-winning London based fintech, with additional offices in Riga, Paris and Melbourne.

The role

As our Salesforce Architect, you will own the integrity and strength of the solutions recommended. You’ll be acting as a trusted advisor to our team and internal clients. You will be an effective mentor for other Salesforce professionals working alongside you. You have a deep understanding of the Salesforce platform, top-notch people skills to get your ideas and solutions across to stakeholders; and the skills to deliver solutions and help grow experience within the team to do the same.

What excites you 

  • Collaborating with the Commercial organisation to validate business requirements and any considerations (security, scalability, limits), and delivering those changes,
  • Custom User Interface development using all aspects of Salesforce configuration,
  • Integrations: use Salesforce APIs to integrate with other systems used in the organisation,
  • Best Practices: adhere to Salesforce best practices, maintain code documentation, and write/maintain test classes for all custom development,
  • Take ownership of release cycles to implement and deploy new/updates to existing applications and code, 
  • Integrating and maintaining business applications to Salesforce, such as DocuSign, Qualtrics, ChurnZero, etc.
  • Collaborating with IT / Developers for other systems to integrate across the business,
  • Helping grow knowledge and best practice within the team and the wider business,
  • Supervise the configuration, quality assurance, testing, and deployment of Salesforce.

What excites us 

  • Strong CPQ experience, including product catalogue build, pricing strategies, product and pricing rules,
  • Experience in all core elements of Salesforce Sales Cloud configuration,
  • A proactive attitude to Salesforce enhancements and bringing existing code and configuration into best practices,
  • Ability to write, interpret, and critique technical specifications,
  • Experience working with large data sets and bulkification,
  • Soft skills: the ability to gather requirements and present solutions to stakeholders,
  • A self-starter, experienced in leading projects or delivery work streams.

We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.

(some of) The good stuff
  • Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
  • Work away scheme - you can apply to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
  • Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
  • Equity -all permanently employed GeeCees receive equity so we can share in the success we achieve together
  • Parental leave -to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
  • Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
Life at GoCardless  

We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We make it happen, working with urgency and taking personal accountability for getting things done. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Our Values form part of the GoCardless DNA, and are used to not only help us nurture and develop our culture, but to deliver impactful work that will help us to achieve our vision.

Diversity & Inclusion

We’re building the bank payment network of the future and our ambition is to move money anywhere, for anything, for anyone. If we’re going to achieve this goal, we need to build a team of ‘GeeCee’s’ that is as wonderfully diverse as the world we live in - with a multitude of perspectives, experiences & backgrounds.

We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2023;

42% identify as women

28% identify as Black, Asian, Mixed or Other

9% identify as LGBTQIA+

9% identify as neurodiverse

2% identify as disabled

We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.

If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here as well as our latest D&I Report 

Sustainability 

We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. In 2021 we became co-founders of the Tech Zero coalition, a group of businesses committed to taking climate action as part of the UNFCCC Race to Zero. We aim to reduce our impact and to create positive change on the natural world. Check out our sustainability action plan here. 

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