Salesforce Technical Consultant
Capgemini
About the job you’re considering
Capgemini work with some of the world’s largest brands, in some of the most interesting and complex projects posed in modern IT. The Salesforce Delivery Unit is one of the fastest growing areas within Capgemini UK and focuses on helping our clients achieve business value through the use of Salesforce.com, the world’s number one cloud based CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution.
As a Salesforce Technical Consultant, you’ll be working across a wide spectrum of industry sectors, from Consumer Products, Utilities, Automotive to Telecommunications. You’ll be working with our clients to transform their business using the Salesforce.com platform with one of the largest eco system of Salesforce apps. You’ll experience variety, one day you could be working with the client to get to grips with their business requirements, the next day you may start building a proof of concept with a development team moving onto developing the final solution that may be used by thousands of end users.
Your role
• Collaborate closely with Salesforce Functional Consultants to design and build tailored client solutions.
• Serve as a Salesforce SME within the DCX practice, contributing to capability building—leveraging AI-driven tools like Agentforce to support solution design, accelerate delivery, and enhance team productivity.
• Develop on the Salesforce platform using a mix of declarative and programmatic tools, including Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows and JavaScript.
• Support agile delivery teams and contribute to DevOps best practices (e.g. using Copado, Flosum, Gearset, AzureDevops).
• Work directly with clients, building your consulting skills in communication, design thinking, and stakeholder engagement.
Your skills and experience
Working closely with clients, you’ll analyse exactly what they need. Then you’ll design and develop the right solution to exceed their expectations using your technical Salesforce configuration and coding. But whatever the project, you’ll indulge your passion for Salesforce and CRM and your love of exploring ideas. And qualities like these will help you become the person clients turn to when they face their most complex challenges.
• Salesforce technical experience covering on or more of the main clouds, Sales, Service or Commerce. Experience of project work with one of LWC, Vlocity or Field Service Lightning
• Experience with working on large complex end user or client projects involving several hundred Salesforce end users
• Hold certifications in Salesforce Administrator, Platform Developer I & II, JavaScript Developer I, and at least one Consultant-level credential, with a strong commitment to continuous learning through additional certifications or Trailhead Superbadges in progress.
• Experience of agile project delivery and working as part of a team of highly skilled Salesforce developers
• Proven ability to effectively communicate complex ideas, issues, concepts and solutions to clients and executive project stakeholders. Experience working with 3rd party delivery partners and AppExchange vendors is a plus e.g. Mulesoft, Copado, etc.
Your security clearance
Security Check (SC) Clearance
To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.
What does ‘Get The Future You Want ‘ mean for you?
You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.
Why you should consider Capgemini
Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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Job Description
Works in the area of Software Engineering, which encompasses the development, maintenance and optimization of software solutions/applications.
1. Applies scientific methods to analyse and solve software engineering problems.
2. He/she is responsible for the development and application of software engineering practice and knowledge, in research, design, development and maintenance.
3. His/her work requires the exercise of original thought and judgement and the ability to supervise the technical and administrative work of other software engineers.
4. The software engineer builds skills and expertise of his/her software engineering discipline to reach standard software engineer skills expectations for the applicable role, as defined in Professional Communities.
5. The software engineer collaborates and acts as team player with other software engineers and stakeholders.