Salesforce Lead Developer

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Job description

The Salesforce Lead Developer has leadership responsibilities and is accountable for driving developing and delivery complex Salesforce solutions, in collaboration with the rest of the development and test team. The Salesforce Lead Developer works with stakeholders, both leadership and subject matter experts, to build a holistic view of the Salesforce strategy and architectural roadmap and ensures that the business and IT are in alignment.
Working in an agile scrum team, the SFTL will need to be comfortable working in agile methodologies, as the team practices Agile Scrum.

Core Duties: 
 
Leading a Scrum team of developers and technical testers to deliver Salesforce solutions. 
Reviewing Salesforce systems and code to see how it supports the business process and policy. 
Presenting ideas for Salesforce system improvements. 
Producing detailed technical specifications, developing proposed solutions and writing the programme code to develop the solution. 
Maintaining Salesforce including general housekeeping, data cleanse, reduction of technical debt, bug fixes and configuration. 
Finding the best tech solution among all possible to solve the existing business development or commercial problems 
Describing the structure, characteristics, behaviour, of Salesforce to project stakeholders 
Defining features, phases, and Salesforce solution requirements 
Providing Salesforce specifications according to which the solution is defined, managed, and delivered 
Identifying data and security risks related to Salesforce and tributary systems. 
Building employee skills and knowledge in Salesforce 
Teaming up with business analysts to ensure Salesforce solutions meet the BD requirements

Knowledge: 
 
Extensive hands on knowledge, experience of Salesforce declarative programming techniques and administrative features 
Extensive hands on knowledge, experience of Salesforce coding language (APEX, Triggers, Batch Apex, LWC) 
Experience in Datamodelling 
Experience in managing CI/CD process 
Extensive knowledge of Salesforce, Sales Cloud and sales processes 
Good understanding in Service Cloud is good to have Knowledge of Integrations, 3rd party integration tools, ETL with Salesforce is good to have

Skills: 
 
Excellent leadership skills 
Strong communication and presentation skills 
Ability to think strategically 
Proven resilience, calm under pressure 
Proven experience to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment 
Experience to drive process change. 
Great team player

Qualifications: 
Extensive Experience of working in a similar role or environment. 
Relevant vocational qualifications or equivalent experience of working within Agile Methodologies
Salesforce certifications beneficial

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