Senior Salesforce Developer

Into Film

Employment Type Full time 1-year fixed term contract to 31st March 2026
Location Hybrid · United Kingdom (multiple locations) Edinburgh · Salford · Belfast · Cardiff · London Hybrid working and office based as required, with some travel across the UK
Salary £62,500 - £65,000 (GBP) Plus Into Film Benefits (see below).
Team Product & Technology
Seniority Senior
  • Closing: 9:00am, 21st Mar 2025 GMT

Job Description

About Into Film

Into Film is the UK’s leading charity for film in education and the community. We provide screen industry careers information and advice, support young filmmakers, and bring the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching.

We also run the annual Into Film Festival which enables more than 400,000 pupils to visit the cinema for free, and the Into Film Awards - the UK’s leading showcase for young filmmaking talent.

The core Into Film programme is free for UK state schools, colleges and other youth settings, thanks to support from the BFI, awarding National Lottery good cause funding, and through other key funders including Cinema First and Northern Ireland Screen.

Our vision – Film enriches the life of every child and young person.

Our mission – To inspire and support young people to learn, and to realise their creative, cultural and career aspirations, through film and the moving image.

Into Film operates a hybrid working policy with offices in London, Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh and Salford. We are open to flexible working models wherever the role allows, including working compressed hours.  We also offer a range of staff benefits and perks which are detailed below.

Role Summary

Into Film’s Product & Technology team incorporates best practices and technologies to drive solution-focused innovation for the organisation and our beneficiaries. The main function of the team’s Salesforce Developer role is to further evolve Into Film’s Salesforce platform, including building and evolving Flows, Apex Classes, Experience Cloud components, CRM Analytics Reports, Marketing Cloud User Journeys and Data Extensions, and the objects, reports, and lightning pages within NPSP, Sales Cloud and Service Cloud.

The Senior Salesforce Developer works with the CRM Product Manager, the rest of the technology team, and departments across Into Film to ensure the platform is delivering maximum value across the organisation.

The Senior Salesforce Developer is responsible for understanding business processes, user experiences and customer lifecycles to advise and recommend to the organisation new and improved ways of working through the use and development of Salesforce.

Main Responsibilities:

  • To collaborate, provide subject matter expertise, code, and configure integrations and reports in Salesforce, including within Experience Cloud (Lightning Web Components/Runtime), Apex, Flow, Visualforce, triggers, and formula fields.

  • To collaborate with team members to gather requirements with product and technical stakeholders by facilitating and participating in ideation workshops, trainings, and meetings, and by creating work tickets in Jira, our ticketing and Agile project management system.

  • To help manage the CRM product roadmap to meet Into Film’s goals and KPIs by planning and delivering high quality, scalable, effective solutions through collaboration with technical stakeholders, reaching consensus on the architecture of solutions.

  • To collaborate on workload with the team, providing status updates to ensure CRM functionality delivers on time and budget, and requesting support and resource augmentation with third party service providers and other team members when needed.

  • To contribute to the general running of the CRM, including user management, administration tasks, report creation, customisation, and data uploads.

  • To oversee and contribute to CRM release management including acceptance testing.

  • To participate in code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices.

  • To develop and maintain technical specification and solution documentation for sign-off and future reference.

  • To stay informed of Salesforce updates and industry trends, and where applicable, applying these to improve our platform.

  • Any other reasonable duties assigned by Into Film.

 General Responsibilities:

  • Commitment to quality internally and in all dealings with Into Film’s stakeholders including teachers, children and young people, industry partners, funders, supporters, parents and carers, and members of the public.

  • Commitment and active participation in helping Into Film live its EEDI values and ethos through everything it does.

  • Contribute to long term planning to ensure growth in line with demand and resources.

  • Contribute to the regular monitoring and evaluation of Into Film’s work.

 Person Specification:

Minimum Requirements:

  • Certifications in Salesforce Certified Administrator & Advanced Administrator, Salesforce Platform Developer I & II, JavaScript Developer I.

  • Comprehensive experience and leadership in the Salesforce platform, how it is used and integrated into an organisation.

  • Extensive experience in the coding of Flows, Apex, triggers, formula fields, reports, API integrations, and JavaScript.

  • Strong verbal, written, and visual communication skills and the ability to develop strong stakeholder relationships across the organisation.

  • Experience of monitoring and reporting measurable performance targets.

  • Proficient with project tracking systems such as JIRA.

Desirable:

  • Certification in Marketing Cloud Consultant, Salesforce CRM Analytics & Einstein Discovery Consultant, Tableau CRM, Commerce Cloud, B2C Commerce, Service Cloud Voice Accredited Professional, Salesforce Certified Sales & Service Cloud Consultant.

  • Experience and/or training with CRMA data recipes and data sets and with Experience Cloud components.

  • Experience with dev ops, source control, and sandbox management, including change sets, data seeding, and backup.

  • Awareness of education/learning solutions and video-on-demand technologies.

  • Familiarity with the Microsoft Office suite.

  • A love and knowledge of film.

All employees regularly working with children and member data are required to undertake and maintain enhanced DBS clearance (and/or Access NI check or Disclosure Scotland check, depending on working location), acquired at Into Film’s expense; employment is dependent upon this.

Into Film employees enjoy the following benefits: 

  • Annual Leave – 28 days (pro-rata), including 3 days to cover office closure between Christmas and New Year 

  • Additional long service holiday award – after 3 years at Into Film, staff are awarded one extra day of holiday for each additional year worked, with the total entitlement capped at 35 days, i.e. on your 4th anniversary at Into Film your leave entitlement will rise to 29 days, on your 5th anniversary, your entitlement will go up by another day to 30 days etc.

  • Pension – matched up to 5% of salary (2% above statutory employer contribution).

  • Flexible working including compressed hours, job share etc. – all applications favourably considered, approval will be at the discretion of Into Film.

  • Enhanced parental/paternity/shared parental leave.

  • Support for professional qualifications – money towards courses and/or study days, if relevant to role. 

  • Interest-free non-essential study loans. 

  • Interest-free bike/scooter/travelcard loan. 

  • Career break – up to 4 weeks unpaid leave, after 2 years’ service (at managers’ discretion). 

  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – 24/7 confidential wellbeing support, advice and guidance.  

  • Wisdom health cover – including £75 annual eye care cover, as well as health insurance (non-contributory, apart from employee tax contribution).  

  • BenefitHub portal - offering discounts on healthcare, wellbeing products, and lifestyle products and services.

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