Salesforce Marketing Cloud developer

Sector: Transformation & Change

Location: Central London

Type: Permanent

Ref: BBBH66461_1779266489

Salary: £60000 - £61000 per annum

As the Salesforce Marketing Cloud Developer you will be collaborating with a cross functional team to build engaging consumer journeys, personalized presentation templates, and dynamic consumer audiences to help foster a meaningful relationship with consumers.

Reporting to the Director of Digital Marketing Automation, the ideal candidate must have strong experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) platform along with database and SOAP/RESTful/Transactional API integration knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Work with business stakeholders and team members to understand opportunities and translate into platform capabilities.


• Attend regular agile ceremonies and be able to present progress.


• Develop functionality in campaigns using SFMC platform including leveraging native platform features as well as the various studios (journey, data, automation, audience, mobile, etc.).


• Unit test work and work with QA teams to fix bugs and certify capabilities and products.


• Manage and monitor developments (automations, journeys, reporting) in SFMC and troubleshoot as necessary.


• Assist in building custom programs that require using the Salesforce Marketing Cloud API and backend offerings and features.


• Assist in writing SQL statements for segmentation and creating custom audiences or outputs (must be able to write from scratch without using tools).


• Assist in scoping, troubleshooting, and maintaining current infrastructure as well as implementing new enhancements.


• Collaborate with commerce/service development team to determine best path for Salesforce platform implementation.


• Document marketing automation procedures and provide seamless hand-off to business operations team to utilize.


• Ensure development align with deliverability best practice (sender reputation, ESP nuances, …)


• Monitor of deliverability.

Key Accountabilities

• Daily updates of progress toward goals.


• Attend and participate in agile ceremonies.


• Develop and code automations, journeys, scripts, sql, cloud pages and deliver on time with high quality.


• Continue to evolve understanding of marketing strategies, platform capabilities and new technologies that may benefit business strategies.


• Must be able to follow directions and adhere to company standards and practices.


• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and multi-task several projects.


• Update user stories status in JIRA.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Ability to work effectively with non-technical personnel.


• Strong knowledge of Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) is required.


• Highly self-motivated, proactive, and self-sufficient with the ability to drive intelligent and creative solutions.


• Strong knowledge of Ampscript, SSJS, and similar programming and scripting languages.


• Strong knowledge of the digital marketing email development, deliverability, and 3rd party integrations.

Education and Experience

• 2+ years of experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud.


• 2+ years of coding experience in the following: HTML, XML, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, SSJS, Ampscript, CSS, JSON.


• Experience with responsive email template development for various email applications and providers (Gmail, Outlook, Mobile, etc.)


• Experience with improving email deliverability. Experience with ReturnPath, SparkPost, Litmus, or other analytics tools.


• Experience with email and/or marketing automation software and integration with databases.


• Experience in agile SCRUM management practices and associated tools (Jira, Confluence, MS Teams/Slack, etc.)


• Certified in Salesforce Marketing Cloud and/or Marketing Cloud Consultant is preferred, but not required


• Experience in direct to consumer CRM at an enterprise level.