Job Description

The Company

Christie’s, the world’s largest Art Business, is an incredibly exciting & enriching place to start or continue your career. Whether you work within one of our Specialist Art Departments, or in one of our more Operational teams, we are all working together with one common goal in mind: to continue the success of this 260 year old company, steeped in history, bringing fresh ideas whilst not forgetting our shared values: Integrity, Excellence, Innovation, Responsibility & Relationships. Colleagues across all departments are truly passionate about what they do and it is inspiring to work with industry leaders across our business.

Why This Role Matters

The Salesforce Engineer will work closely with the Technical Lead, Product Manager and wider engineering teams to design, build, test and support Salesforce solutions.

We are looking for a strong engineer who is excited to learn Salesforce, enjoys solving complex business problems, takes ownership of delivery, and wants to grow into a senior technical role over time. If you have solid engineering fundamentals, curiosity, and a track record of learning new technologies quickly, we'd love to hear from you.

This role is ideal for an engineer with strong technical fundamentals who is looking to develop deep expertise on the Salesforce platform while contributing to large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives.

The successful candidate will be a proactive problem solver who enjoys learning new technologies, taking ownership of technical delivery, and collaborating with both technical and business stakeholders. They will play an important role in implementing scalable, maintainable solutions while helping evolve technical standards, frameworks, and best practices across the Salesforce estate.

How You'll Make an Impact

Solution Delivery

• Build, configure, test and deploy Salesforce solutions.

• Develop custom functionality using Salesforce platform technologies.

• Assist in the design and implementation of integrations with internal and external systems.

• Investigate and resolve technical issues across development, testing and production environments.

• Support ongoing enhancement and development of Salesforce applications.

• Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.

Technical Ownership

• Collaborate with BAs, Product Owners, Technical Leads and Architecture Team to take ownership of technical work items from refinement and design through to development and deployment.

• Work closely with the Technical Lead to understand architectural patterns and implementation standards.

• Contribute to technical documentation including solution designs, sequence diagrams and process flows.

• Help identify opportunities for automation, simplification and technical improvement.

• Participate in root cause analysis and continuous improvement activities.

Engineering Excellence

• Follow established development standards, DevOps processes and coding best practices.

• Contribute to internal frameworks, reusable components and technical accelerators.

• Ensure solutions are maintainable, secure and scalable.

• Support testing activities and framework designs including unit, integration and user acceptance testing.

• Continuously develop knowledge of Salesforce and broader software engineering practices.

• Collaborate with broader teams across the Christies Technology space to grow your understanding and appreciation of the full development and application lifecycle. Supported exposure to considerations spanning teams such as Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Data Privacy, Product Ownership, Application Support and others.

What you’ll bring to the team

• Educated to Degree Level preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other related subjects.

• Training and Certification in Salesforce technologies is an advantage

• 2+ years experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or application development in Salesforce.

• Experience with at least one modern programming language (Java, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Apex or similar).

• Understanding of software engineering fundamentals including:

o APIs

o Data modelling

o Version control

o Testing

o CI/CD concepts

o Object-oriented design

• Understanding and ideally hands-on experience with core Salesforce technical competencies such as:

o Configuration based automation (flows, validation rules, formula fields, etc.)

o Apex trigger-based automation.

o Apex programming language.

o Salesforce specific object interface protocols such as SOQL and DML operations and associated best practices.

o UI/UX configurations including standard Salesforce UI components such as Flexipages and Layouts, as well as more complex or custom Lightning Web Component structures and designs.

• Experience working within Agile delivery teams.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Able to provide accurate estimates and meet deadlines.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and strong abilities to develop and enhance relationships with stakeholders and peers

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to produce clear, concise, detailed documentation

• Flexible, pragmatic and professional approach, with ability to anticipate problems and work with incomplete information

• Able to perform under pressure

• Understanding of business drivers

• Good problem-solving skills

What’s great about working for us

• 25 days annual leave + 1 day Birthday leave  

• Christie’s Christmas office closure (guaranteed between 25th Dec – 1st Jan) – in addition to annual leave: almost two weeks to fully switch off and spend time with friends and family

• Additional 1 week’s annual leave within the year of a 5-year anniversary i.e. 5th, 10th, 15th and so on

• Volunteering day: Take an additional day of annual leave to volunteer for a charitable organisation that’s important to you

• Donation matching of up to £500 per annum to help you support the organisations you care about

• Flexible Fitness Fund - £400 per year expense allowance for health and wellness related activity (taxable)

• Access to world-renowned art: with regular exhibitions in our galleries to wander around and exclusive guided tours hosted by specialist colleagues

• Discretionary Bonus (dependent on the business and employee performance payable in March each year)

• Generous retirement plan: We will double match your pension contribution up to 5% of your basic salary (Max 10% contribution from Christie’s)

• Private Health Insurance – no employee contribution needed, subsidised for other family members

• Dental Insurance – (may be extended at personal cost)

• Generous Income Protection Insurance in the event of accident, sickness or injury after 12 months

• Competitive Life Insurance policy from first day

• Employee Assistance Programme – access to personal advice and support services including counselling

• Eyecare vouchers (once a year)

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Christie’s Extras – discounts on over 800 retailers, holiday packages, dinners and weekly shops

• Seniorcare by Lottie, a comprehensive eldercare solution

• Robust family first policy:

Ø 16 weeks full pay on Maternity Leave

Ø Eligible to return to work for 80% of your agreed normal weekly working pattern while being paid as though you were working 100%, post a minimum of 16 weeks of leave

Ø Dependent back-up care: 10 sessions/ days of childcare or eldercare per year

Ø Christies Family Network Our community of parents who meet regularly over breakfasts, lunch, afternoon tea…

* Christie’s reserves the right to change company benefits at any time

Closing Date: Sunday 12th July

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