• Vacancy ID:
    713
  • Closing Date: Closing Date:
    01 January 2026
  • All LocationsAll Locations:
    Home Based
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  • Directorate:
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  • Contract DurationContract Duration:
    12 months
  • About The Role

  • We’re offering an exciting 12-month fixed-term opportunity to cover maternity leave. This role is fully home-based, giving you the flexibility to work from the comfort of your own space while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

    You’ll work Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, and only need to travel for occasional meetings.

    Are you a problem-solver with a passion for technology? As a Business Solutions Developer at Guide Dogs, you’ll use your expertise in Microsoft and Salesforce technologies to develop and manage our core business systems. Your work will directly support fundraising, service delivery, and organisational priorities, ensuring we can continue to help people with sight loss live the life they choose. 

    In this role, you’ll design, build, and optimise business solutions that improve how we operate. You'll work closely with teams across the organisation, integrating our core business systems with external systems, developing SQL Server applications, and ensuring our systems run smoothly. Whether you’re streamlining data migration from legacy systems, driving system architecture decisions or customising Salesforce using Apex and Lightning Web Components, your technical skills will have a real-world impact. 

    Beyond development, you’ll take ownership of problem-solving, collaborating with stakeholders to define system requirements and deliver practical, scalable solutions. You’ll play a key role in system design, managing version control, testing, and release processes. This is your chance to lead innovation, improve efficiency, and shape the future of our technology landscape. 

    About You 

    You’re an experienced developer who thrives on creating solutions and delivering seamless user experiences, all with a positive, can-do attitude. With a strong background in programming languages such as SQL C# VB as well as Salesforce development - you’re as confident working with clustered indexes, object classes and Using statements as you are debugging Apex, using Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, and APIs. You know how to optimise databases, manage data migrations, and integrate systems to create seamless user experiences. 

    Beyond technical ability, you’re a great communicator who can break down complex concepts for non-technical stakeholders. You’re comfortable working in cross-functional teams, collaborating with business users, and liaising with third-party suppliers. Staying ahead of emerging technologies excites you, and you’re always looking for ways to improve, automate, and innovate. 

    If you have additional certifications like Salesforce Developer II, Platform App Builder, or ITIL, or experience with integration tools like MuleSoft, that’s a bonus—but what really matters is your drive to create high-quality, impactful solutions. 

  • About Us

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    How to apply 

    Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page.

     

    If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to [email protected].

     

    As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. You will also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions as part of this application process, so please be prepared to write your answers to these questions.

     

    If you want to know more about the teams who work at Guide Dogs, you can find it on our Careers Page

     

    Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

     

    Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. 

     

    As a Disability Confident Employer, we are proud, whenever possible, to offer an interview to all candidates that meet our selection criteria, and who indicate they wish their application to be considered under our Disability Confident interview commitment. For more details, visit our careers site.

     

    If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier; in addition, we cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

      

    Safeguarding

     

    Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

    At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually, taking into account the nature of the offense, its relevance to the role, and the time that has passed since the incident. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.

     

    Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

     

    For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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