Senior Engineering Manager – Salesforce

Bristol, Somerset
Hargreaves Lansdown plc

Excited to grow your career? Our purpose is to empower people to save and invest with confidence. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at HL. We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don’t tick every box. If you’re excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we’re looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!

About the role

At HL we are embarking on a major transformation that will change the way our colleagues work and enable them with modern, intuitive and connected systems. Over the next few years, with strong business sponsorship, we will incrementally deliver and make it easy for colleagues to serve our clients and collaborate.

Salesforce is already enabling major change and will form a significant part of our colleague target state architecture. In order to drive this transformation, HL is establishing a SF Practice within our Technology function.

This new group will provide thought leadership, strong business partnership and ensure implementation best practices are adopted. The Snr Software Engineering Manager role will report directly to Matt Parkes (CTO – Digital Business Optimisation) and be responsible for establishing and leading this new group.

What you’ll be doing

• Playing a pivotal role in a major HL wide transformation
• Partnering closely with business leaders and teams to understand challenges/opportunities and design solutions to deliver better outcomes for our clients and colleagues
• Setting SF technical vision, strategy and governance
• Recruiting a team of talented and experienced SF professionals to establish our in-house capability
• Driving technical delivery, continuous improvement and innovation
• Partnering with SF, other vendors in the ecosystem and our trusted implementation partner to implement strategic change and maximise value
• Establish a culture that is driven by purpose and excellence and a team that is motivated to make a difference

About you

• Strong technology leadership experience within complex organisations
• Led transformative change across large organisations
• Acted as a strong partner to multiple business areas in order to deliver on key priorities with a one team mindset
• Significant experience across multiple SF implementations and led SF technology teams in a project and BAU mode
• Able to work under pressure with many competing priorities, manage ambiguity and drive for clarity and results
• Strong commercial acumen in order to manage vendors, negotiate contracts and maximise RoI

Interview process

This will be a multistage interview process.

First stage will be an informal 30-minute Teams call between yourself and Matt Parkes (CTO – Digital Business Optimisation).

Second stage will be an hour-long presentation focused interview. Third and final stage will be a competency focused behavioural interview which will also last one hour.

Working Schedule

Monday – Friday, 37.5 hours a week.

Why us?

Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We’re steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What’s on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus & annual pay review
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure time
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year at annual enrolment
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme – have a real stake in HL’s future
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance
• Health care cash plans – including optical, dental, and out patientcare
• and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Gympass – gym memberships and wellbeing apps available
• Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities
• An inhouse barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks
• Join HL’s sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)
• LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers

dependant on role level

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.