Job Opportunities at Collinson

Key Responsibilities

Advanced Salesforce Development: 

• Lead the development and customization of complex Salesforce solutions, focusing on Loyalty Management, Interaction Studio, and Marketing Cloud. Utilize advanced Apex, Lightning Web Components and Aura to extend Salesforce capabilities

Technical Leadership: 

• Collaborate with Solution/Technical Architects to define and implement technical strategies for Salesforce solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical standards. Guide the development team through complex coding challenges and architectural decisions.

Solution Design and Architecture: 

• Architect scalable, maintainable, and flexible solutions within the Salesforce platform that meet business requirements and anticipate future needs. Ensure solutions are optimally integrated with existing enterprise architecture.

Integration and Data Strategy: 

• Design and implement robust integration patterns between Salesforce and external systems, focusing on data consistency, security, and performance. Lead the development of data models and governance practices within Salesforce.

Performance Optimization: 

•  Monitor, analyze, and optimize the performance of Salesforce solutions, ensuring they operate at peak efficiency and meet scalability demands. Mentorship and Leadership: Mentor junior Salesforce developers and engineers, promoting best practices in coding, configuration, and continuous integration/delivery. Foster a culture of excellence and innovation within the team.

Advanced Problem Solving: 

• Tackle complex technical issues, providing expert-level troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and solution implementation. 

Continuous Learning and Innovation: 

• Keep abreast of the latest Salesforce features, technologies, and best practices. Advocate for the adoption of new tools and technologies that can enhance business outcomes.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 3 + years of experience in Salesforce development, with a proven track record in Salesforce Loyalty Management, Interaction Studio, and Marketing Cloud.
• Lightning App builder experience
• 3+ years of experience with JavaScript
• Experience with Apex, and the Lightning Web Component Framework is a must.
• Experience with Apex REST APIs development (Apex Web Services)
• Advanced knowledge of Salesforce Tooling and Metadata.
• Demonstrated experience in architecting and implementing complex Salesforce integrations and customizations.
• Strong foundation in CRM principles, data modelling, and software architecture.
• Salesforce Developer Certification (Platform Developer I/II) and any relevant advanced certifications.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities, with a track record of mentoring developers.

Preferred Skills:

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with Salesforce B2B and B2C solutions.
• Knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and Salesforce DX.
• Experience in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for custom UI solutions.

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Purpose of the job

• The P&C Operations Coordinator will deliver a proficient, high volume administration service across the entire employee life cycle.
• You will be the first point of contact for query resolution, guidance, or escalation where appropriate and overall help the wider P&C team to deliver an excellent service.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the management of the busy centralised P&C inbox
• Coordinate onboarding for new joiners and offboarding for leavers
• Ensure all Right to Work checks are carried out for new joiners plus ongoing checks with existing employees in relation to passport/Visa expiration
• Accurately manage data in to the P&C system, ensure that employee data/information is managed in accordance with GDPR
• Assist with P&C audits/RFPs as instructed
• Globally manage the Company Employee Recognition schemes
• Contribute to the development/maintenance of P&C procedures, process improvements and policies
• Support P&C Advisors and Payroll with employees during Probation period

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Proven track record in a busy and complex P&C administration role
• Ability to accurately maintain a database
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
• Knowledge of HR systems is advantageous (Cascade, UKG Ready, Workday)

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Key Responsibilities:

Month-end reporting processes, including: 

• Assisting in managing the timely submission of subsidiaries globally and performing high-level validation checks on submissions;
• Completing the Group multi-currency consolidation at month-end; and
• Involvement in preparation of monthly Board Pack slides relating to consolidated primary statements for the Group.
• Year-end reporting processes, including:
• Review and challenge of global subsidiary submissions to ensure compliance with FRS102 and Group accounting policies;
• Completion of the Group multi-currency consolidation; and
• Preparation of specific consolidated disclosures and supporting analysis for inclusion in the FRS102 consolidated financial statements.
• Technical accounting application and policies, including:
• Preparation of technical accounting papers on complex contracts and transactions;
• Assisting in updating the Group accounting policies to ensure alignment with FRS102;
• Providing application guidance to global finance teams for complex accounting areas and transactions.
• Finance Transformation/Finance Projects, including: 
• Support on design of new Group consolidation processes in Tagetik, associated month-end and year-end reporting processes and reporting outputs;
• Support on roll-out of Tagetik to global finance teams for revised monthly and year-end reporting processes; and
• As Collinson is a dynamic business, and currently undergoing a period of significant transformation, the role will be involved in other ad-hoc finance projects as these arise.

Key skills and experience to be evidenced within your application included;

• The successful applicant will ideally have a recognised accountancy qualification (ACCA/ACA or overseas equivalent) and demonstrable experience in year-end group consolidation processes and preparation of statutory accounts under FRS102.
• Knowledge/experience of complex multi-currency consolidations
• Technically strong, with working knowledge of FRS 102
• Strong analytical skills and an eye for detail
• Strong communication skills and ability to maintain good working relationships with global subsidiary finance teams
• Able to prioritise effectively and ability to handle multiple tasks
• Ability to work as part of a team and be collaborative
• Experience on financial consolidation system preferred but not essential
• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint and Word
   

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Purpose of the job

• We are seeking a DevSecOps Engineer with experience in designing, implementing and maintaining secure and large-scale, high-performance systems using AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and Docker. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in infrastructure automation and be comfortable working with a variety of different technologies. They will work closely with development teams to integrate security practices into the software development lifecycle and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• This is an exciting opportunity to work on a wide range of projects and be part of a team that is driving engineering and security innovation.. If you are a highly motivated, results-driven individual with a passion for infrastructure automation and scaling, we encourage you to apply.

Key Responsibilities

• As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will act as an escalation point for any Cloud/CICD based issues.
• You will act as an expert for cloud technologies (AWS) and advocate standards and best practices to be applied.
• As the security specialist for the infrastructure supporting Collinson’s services, you will be proactively thinking about how to ensure it is secure and resilient, with sufficient monitoring and alerting, allowing you to react to deviations swiftly.
• You will have a good understanding of best practices around Cloud, Network and Application Security, allowing you to handle security alerts confidently, implement standards and provide advice to other engineering teams.
• You will have experience building and running a technical platform which other engineering teams depend on, with developer experience and resilience always in mind.
• Work with various teams to design and implement development pipelines with automation at the heart of every design.
• You will use your architectural experience to not just help deliver development pipelines (CI/CD) but also solution architecture so that every solution is built in a well-thought, forward thinking way.
• Working with partners in other teams to help deliver solutions for Collinson and its companies to market. This involves working with both technical and non-technical personnel and so communication skills must be excellent both written and verbal with the ability to communicate at all levels of the business.
• Responsible for performing root cause analysis for underlying issues and incidents that affect systems performance and availability including proactively identifying and resolving known errors and problems to minimize incident re-occurrence.
• Assist in the analysis and evaluation of vendor supplied software and hardware products in accordance with Company requirements and specifications.
• Helping to translate business and customer requirements into solid and stable solutions.
• Executing projects and tasks independently and with limited direct supervision.
• To provide the technical input into planning and implementation of complex upgrades, installation, and releases.
• To keep abreast of updates in information technology, being able to recommend and evaluate products and services for use within group and communicating said recommendations effectively.
• Expected to make recommendations for improvement in respect of security processes, tooling and operational support.
• Being part of the on-call rotation will be expected and required, to ensure our customer always get the best experience.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Awareness of PCI and ISO27001 and the impact these have on infrastructure, networks and application designs
• Proven track record of implementing secure and scalable cloud solutions specifically on AWS and managing AWS Security Hub Controls.
• Experience with automated testing and deployment methodologies.
• AWS Certified to demonstrate theoretical awareness of best practices
• Extensive experience with AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and Lambda.
• Understanding of Source Control Systems, specifically Git.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including a working knowledge of Terraform
• Scripting experience in either PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• Familiar with Containerisation, specifically Docker & Kubernetes
• Linux and Windows Server experience
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools, ideally AppDynamics and Datadog
• Working knowledge of networking technologies, including DNS, Firewall Configuration, WAF and Load Balancing.
• Passionate to learn and develop new skills and experience.
   

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Key Responsibilities

• Be the expert and super user for all P&C systems, ensuring they are running effectively and efficiently globally.
• Responsible for the resolution of queries and issues relating to the use of P&C systems from end user's and wider P&C team.
• Work closely with the operations teams globally to streamline processes.
• Support P&C with reporting and data analytics, automating wherever possible.
• Use insights and data analysis to identify patterns, trends and business challenges to inform recommendations, influence change and for continuous business improvement.
• Ensure audits are undertaken on a regular basis to safeguard data integrity.
• Ensure systems remain GDPR compliant, highlighting any risks and co-ordinating remedial actions, when necessary.
• Train and assist users on effective usage of P&C systems.
• Configuring and implementing new functionalities/modules in P&C systems being mindful of the requirements, opportunities and limitations.
• Responsible for supporting a comprehensive data cleanse of the HRIS, in preparation for the implementation of a new system.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Experience of maintaining configuration within P&C systems.
• Experience of assessing and streamlining system related processes and procedures
• Experience using office 365 functionality such as Power Automate, SharePoint, MS forms.
• Experience of managing and delivering reports, reporting dashboards or similar
• MS Office intermediate level with expertise in Excel (V-lookup, pivot tables etc)
• A keen interest in data, systems, and business processes
• Attention to detail and analytical skills
• Collaborative team player
• Problem solving and inquisitive nature for root cause analysis

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The Role 

• We are seeking a highly experienced Fullstack Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, with a focus on using modern technologies.

Key Responsibilities  

• Lead the design and development of complex software systems (client-side and server-side) from conception to deployment
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Develop and design effective APIs
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions
• Mentor and guide other engineers
• Stay current on industry trends and technologies to continually improve the team's technical capabilities
• Ensure that all software development is done to a high standard, and that it is fully tested and deployed in a secure and reliable manner
• Research and recommend ways it implement emerging payment innovations, including Open Banking, buy now pay layer, and alternative digital payment methods
• Stay current on payment legislation changes globally.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Strong technical experience leading the design and development of complex software systems
• Knowledge of multiple front-end and back-end languages (Node.js, React, Next.js, Typescript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and their libraries
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and GraphQL
• Familiarity with database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB
• Knowledge of payments processing and the wider payments industry
• Experience integrating with Payment Service Providers (PSPs) for example Stripe, Braintree, Adyen, or WorldPay.
• Understand of mobile payments and implementation of ApplePay and/or GooglePay.
• Experience with event-driven architectures
• Proficiency with Git, Confluence, Jira
• Basic understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and Deployments to the cloud