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Salesforce Application Support Developer

Salary Competitive
Location Leicester
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

 

Can you imagine a world without music? Neither can we.
 

Key Details
Our team is made up of a wide variety of people, all have a shared passion for music and a real desire to create an unparalleled experience through The Music Licence to bring simplicity to our customers and deserved rewards to musicians, songwriters, rightsholders and performers.

You are a collaborative, technically capable Salesforce professional who enjoys solving problems and improving systems in a live, operational environment. You are comfortable balancing development work with support priorities and have the communication skills needed to translate technical detail into clear outcomes for support colleagues and stakeholders.

You bring an engineering-first mindset, with a focus on clean code, test coverage and sustainable solutions rather than short-term fixes. You’re comfortable navigating complex legacy codebases and take satisfaction in untangling and improving them.

You bring a strong quality-first mindset, enjoy troubleshooting complex issues, and are confident in making targeted enhancements that improve system stability and user experience.

  • A creative and inquisitive approach to problem-solving, with a focus on understanding root causes and delivering robust fixes.
  • Strong analytical skills with the desire to troubleshoot and put quality first.
  • A quick learner with a deep technical understanding and the ability to communicate this on all levels.
  • Excellent communication, both written and verbal, hand in hand with good listening skills.
  • Experience working with stakeholders to understand issues and requirements, with the confidence to challenge assumptions where appropriate.
  • Comfortable working independently on development tasks, while collaborating closely with support teams and other developers.
  • Hands‑on Salesforce development experience delivering enhancements, fixes, and small changes in live environments, including configuration and controlled releases.
  • Experience working within established Salesforce orgs, understanding existing data models and implementations to improve performance, reliability, and usability.
  • Experience operating within change management and governance frameworks appropriate to BAU and support‑led development.
  • Experience in change management and governance.
  • Demonstrates continued personal/professional development.
  • Strong organisational skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, particularly when working in production environments.
  • Effective time management skills, with the ability to prioritise competing support and development tasks and meet agreed deadlines.
  • A pragmatic and diplomatic approach, able to adapt to shifting priorities in a support‑driven environment.


What you will be doing

Salesforce Enhancements & Fixes

  • Deliver minor enhancements, configuration changes, and bug fixes within Salesforce
  • Develop and maintain Salesforce solutions using Apex, Flows, and Lightning components
  • Configure and maintain Salesforce features, including custom objects, fields, validation rules, page layouts, approval processes, and installed packages
  • Ensure fixes and enhancements follow agreed change control, testing, and deployment processes

Application Support & Escalation

  • Act as a technical point of escalation for the Salesforce Application Support Team
  • Assist with investigation and root cause analysis of recurring or complex incidents
  • Determine when issues can be resolved within support vs escalated to the Internal Development Team
  • Improve issue definitions and technical clarity before escalation to reduce rework
  • Provide clear technical assessment and recommendations when escalating to the Internal Development Team

Integration & Platform Support

  • Support and troubleshoot integrations between Salesforce and third-party systems
  • Troubleshoot and resolve integration-related incidents
  • Provide hands-on support for Jitterbit integrations, including investigation and remediation of failures
  • Collaborate with vendors and internal teams as required

Collaboration & Documentation

  • Work closely with Salesforce administrators and developers to resolve issues efficiently
  • Document fixes, enhancements, and known issues using JIRA and Confluence
  • Translate support issues into well-defined technical tasks or user stories that clearly define acceptance criteria
  • Share technical knowledge with the support team to raise overall capability

Continuous Improvement

  • Identify recurring issues and recommend preventative improvements
  • Contribute ideas to improve support tooling, monitoring, and operational stability

Remain current with Salesforce updates, features, and recommended practices

​You will have

Essential

  • 3+ years’ experience working on the Salesforce platform
  • Hands-on experience with Salesforce configuration and development, including:
    • Apex
    • Flows
    • Visualforce and/or Lightning Web Components
  • Experience supporting or maintaining Salesforce integrations (API or middleware-based)
  • Experience working within support, BAU, or operational environments
  • Experience troubleshooting and fixing issues in production systems
  • Salesforce Platform Developer I (strongly preferred) and ideally Platform Developer II, or equivalent experience and willingness to certify.
  • Familiarity with Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud
  • Experience working with Agile or structured change management processes                                                                                     

 Desirable

  • Experience with Jitterbit (highly desirable)
  • Experience supporting platforms such as Certinia (FinancialForce), CPQ, Vonage, Pardot, Conga, Gearset, or OwnBackup
  • Experience working in a support‑led or BAU development environment
  • Additional Salesforce certifications (e.g. Salesforce Administrator, Advanced Administrator, App Builder, Omnistudio)

If you play or perform music in your business, you will usually need TheMusicLicence and that’s where we come in. TheMusicLicence from PPL PRS allows you to legally play music in your business or organisation and covers virtually all commercially released music. This includes millions of the most popular and well-loved songs and recordings, not just from the UK but also from around the world.

If a business plays or performs music in their business, they will usually need TheMusicLicence and that’s where we come in. TheMusicLicence from PPL PRS allows businesses to legally play music in their business or organisation and covers virtually all commercially released music. This includes millions of the most popular and well-loved songs and recordings, not just from the UK but also from around the world.

By joining us, you’ll be part of a team that’s genuinely passionate about music and people. Since we started in 2018, we’ve grown massively, but we still have big ambitions. We’re looking for top talent full of fresh ideas and new perspectives to make a difference and help us grow even more. 

We offer hybrid working in our modern office in the heart of Leicester along with a competitive benefits package. Visit www.pplprs.co.uk to find out more.

PPLPRS is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to recruit a diverse workforce and create inclusive teams.

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