Salesforce Technical Lead
1. The Advert
Are you experience and qualified Salesforce Technical Lead? Do you get a kick out of finding solutions to complex problems and seeing a glowing smile from your customers and team?
At Girikon we are delighted to announce a position that just might suit you. Girikon is looking for a Salesforce Technical Lead to join our growing global IT consultancy company with a focus on the rapidly growing APAC region.
2. The Role
We are looking for an experienced, passionate, and driven Salesforce Technical Lead to be part of our Australian and New Zealand Salesforce Consulting team.
Girikon’s ethos and commitment to our people provides a perfect platform to grow and learn. The successful candidate will be supported and encouraged to participate in various training programs to further develop their skills and knowledge. Girikon invests in this training for the individual so that they are recognized through certifications and training programs.
The successful candidate will be a pivotal member of the presales and implementation teams designing technical solutions with clients. Therefore, having Salesforce platform knowledge and experience is essential requirement for the role to ensure our clients are presented and delivered a simple, effective, and user-friendly solutions.
You will work across a range of industries gaining invaluable knowledge that will help you to understand the different client’s business requirements. As well as direct client engagement you will collaborate with teams’ members including Account Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Software Developers and Quality Assurance Engineers to understand and deliver configuration and customisation required to the Salesforce Platform as a team.
Girikon will require the successful candidate to be a self-starter with a growth mindset and a desire to learn during an increased growth phase of the company.
3. About Girikon
Girikon is an IT consulting and development company, based out of Phoenix, Arizona with development centers in Phoenix, USA and Noida / Bangalore, India and Melbourne, Australia
Girikon is a Salesforce Gold Consulting Partner, HIPAA compliant, ISO 9001 certified and ISO 27001 certified. Along with Salesforce, Girikon also supports its customers on technology platforms such as Java, Microsoft, Oracle, Data Management services etc.
Girikon has expertise in the majority of Salesforce platforms, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Community Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Pardot, Salesforce CPQ, Billing, 3rd Party integrations, Force.com development, Lightning Development and Data Migration.
Our network of offices in USA, India, and Australia, allows Girikon to quickly respond customer’s requirements with a balanced resource loading. Girikon has a team of experienced and certified Salesforce Architects, Developers, Consultants, and Administrators. Girikon’s strength lies in Salesforce implementation, customization, development, integration, and support.
4. Key Position Responsibilities
Your responsibility will include the creation of holistic solutions on the Salesforce platform, detailed application design, related documentarian, development, and support of Salesforce related projects. You may need to work in a wide range of technology along with Salesforce for various integrations
- Hands-on development of solutions on the Salesforce platform.
- Blueprint the technical design for the Salesforce application considering all the functional, technical, non-functional and integration needs of the application
- The detailed design of Salesforce projects from inception through production support using of Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagrams, design documentation, and best-practice methodologies
- Experience in Salesforce (SFDC) CRM with end-to-end implementation experience and Salesforce.com integration experience including different business systems as well as integration tools
- Candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the system accurately meets the defined expectations of the business unit, ensuring that proper testing is implemented, and performance requirements are closely monitored by working with the development teams.
- Expertise in managing discoveries, requirement gathering, and scope definition demonstrated through successful delivery of complex projects
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to understand the business requirements and deliver with quality
- Lead a team of Salesforce developers, provide solutions, technical mentoring, code review, performance tuning and coaching of the development team.
- Ability to provide technical support to peers and juniors
5. Key Selection Criteria
5.1 Education and Experience
- 7 plus years of Salesforce experience including a minimum of two years hands on experience as a Salesforce Architecture
- Experience with environment management, release management, source control, Continuous development, and Continuous Integration (ANT, GitHub, Jenkins, Copado or similar)
- Undergraduate Degree IT a prerequisite
- Salesforce certifications is a prerequisite:
- Administrator
- App Builder
- Platform Develop II
- Experience Cloud
- Sales Cloud
- Einstein Analytics and Discover
- Architecture
- Work Experience in previous positions to demonstrate work ethic, great attitude to learn and grow and desire a level of progression
- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Excellent leadership and management skills
- Excellent documentation and problem-solving skills.
- Able to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively
- Self-motivated and self-directed.
5.2 Technical Skills
- Strong development and deployment knowledge of Salesforce Lightning Components, Lightning Experience LWC, Lightning Design System, Triggers, Visual Force, Salesforce configurations, Apex classes, APEX Web services, API, AppExchange deployment, Workflow Alerts and Actions, and Approval Workflow
- Certified in Salesforce products (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Non-Profit Success Pack, Education Data Architecture and Community Cloud)
- Integration experience using both web-based technologies (Soap, Rest) and Integration/Middleware tools such as Informatica, Jitterbit and MuleSoft
- Must have hands-on experience demonstrating Salesforce functions and features
- Perform analysis with key stakeholders to determine the project scope
- Experienced in the use of Agile development ways of working
- Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel) and Jira
5.3 Competencies/Values
- Ability to work in a start-up-like culture and work with shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to complete projects successfully
- Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating
- Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Flexible during times of change
- Ability to understand the different communication styles of team members