Technical Lead-Salesforce

Area(s) of responsibility

Objectives of this role

• Creating custom solutions by designing and developing Salesforce applications.
• Participate in the entire software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing and deployment.
• Supporting, maintaining and improving the working of existing Salesforce applications for optimal functionality.
• Creating and maintaining integrations with other applications and systems using web services and APIs.
• Collaborating with stakeholders and other developers to identify and implement improvements for the system.
• Ensuring compliance with security and development standards of Salesforce.

Your tasks

• Develop and maintain custom applications on the Salesforce platform using Apex, Visualforce and other technologies.
• Create technical documentation for the company, like user guides, release notes and design documents.
• Work collaboratively with technical teams to collect and document requirements for Salesforce solutions.
• Identify and troubleshoot issues related to Salesforce integrations and applications.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure that the  best practices for the existing and new Salesforce solutions are implemented.
• Stay updated with new Salesforce features & functionalities and recommend best practices to enhance the existing Salesforce implementations.

Required skills and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• 1-3 years of demonstrable experience in software development.
• Proficient understanding of Salesforce administration, including Salesforce lightning framework, Salesforce service cloud and Salesforce marketing cloud.
• Knowledge of Apex, Visualforce and other Salesforce development technologies.
• Understanding of Salesforce data model, including standard and custom objects, relationships and fields.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Salesforce certifications, like Platform Developer I or II, App Builder or Administrator.
• Experience with web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery.
• Ability to work with Salesforce Community Cloud or other collaboration tools.
• Knowledge of DevOps and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) processes.