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Title:                                   Lead Salesforce Developer

Duration:                         6+ Month months

Interview:                        Phone and Video

Visa:                                     USC, GC, OPT/EAD, CPT/EAD, EAD/GC, H4/EAD,

City:                                     Remote

Good LinkedIn is required.

This is a Tech lead for their Salesforce GenAI group..

Client would really love to see someone with Salesforce GPT experience along with Claude.v4.

Leads and motivates a Team of developers in the planning, delivery, and operation of highly reliable software. Closely collaborates with the Business and other Stakeholders to ensure software meets functional and non-functional expectations. Acts as an interface between the Development Team and Leadership. Allocates time across these key activities:

·         Project Leadership – ~50%,

·         Technical Leadership/Mentoring – ~ 30%,

·         Software Development/System Engineering ~20%

·         Accountable for the technical quality of the software that the Development Team produces

·         Builds and cultivates the Development Team, ensuring capacity and skillsets are aligned to meet ongoing delivery expectations

·         Partners and regularly collaborates with all levels from Team members up to Senior Leadership

·         Defines current, transitional, and future state application roadmaps in collaboration with Solution Architects

·         Reviews functional and non-functional requirements and ensures success criteria is clearly outlined

·         Provides accurate development estimates in support of feasibility assessments and planned development activities

·         Creates, maintains, reviews and approves application designs in collaboration with Solution Architects and shared services Teams, ensuring alignment to the appropriate solution architectures and taking tradeoffs into account

·         Creates, maintains, and reviews technical documentation, ensuring clarity, conciseness, and completeness

·         Develops, maintains, and reviews software with a focus on quality and maintainability

·         Develops, maintains, reviews, and executes unit, functional, and integration tests with a focus on automation and test-driven development

·         Provides technical oversight for performance testing, ensuring plan and outcomes align to expected non-functional requirements

·         Plans and oversees application deployment activities and sequencing in non-production and production environments

·         Refactors and improves applications, including ongoing technology refreshes

·         Investigates new technologies that could improve the applications and development activities

·         Identifies and resolves technical debt as appropriate, weighing the development effort against the value returned

·         Champions inclusion of architecture runway items as part of planning process

·         Promotes and enforces enterprise development standards and industry best practices

·         Troubleshoots, escalates, and resolves application and environment issues in a timely manner and incorporates findings into planned development work to prevent future issues

·         Mentors and coaches Development Team on relevant architecture, design, development, and operations topics

·         Defines and reviews technical criteria for vendor evaluations, participates in package evaluations, and ensures contracts include expected technical outcomes

·         Must be able to meet any physical ability requirements listed on this description

·         May perform other job duties as directed by Employee’s Leaders

·         Advanced knowledge of software development methodologies, practices, concepts, and technologies obtained through formal training and/or work experience

·         Advanced knowledge of at least one required programming language and at least general knowledge of one or more additional programming languages

• Solid understanding of project management methodology and principles

• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a proactive mindset to get ahead of issues

·         Able to effectively assess and quantify technical capabilities of the Team and potential candidates for the Team

·         Excellent communicator with ability to articulate (verbally and visually) ideas, approaches, concepts, options, risks, impacts, and recommendations to technical, non-technical, and Leadership audiences with ability to adapt the message accordingly

·         Able to articulate the technical implementation and how it provides business value

·         Ability to lead ideation, presentation, and group-thinking sessions

·         Able to effectively translate Leader expectations to Development Team to drive day-to-day activities

·         Provides clear direction and communicates priorities to the Team

·         Ability to influence effectively without authority up through Senior Leadership levels to achieve desired business outcomes

·         Ability to lead multiple efforts concurrently, whether administrative or project related, while maintaining a successful level of completion in their own work

·         Ability to work in a fast-paced, Team-based, Customer service-oriented environment.

SALESFORCE-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS:

Salesforce Tech Lead Job Description:

• Assists with gathering of requirements for various development efforts
• Performs new/enhancement development work, sets up/maintains organization, and collaborates with Salesforce and other professional services organizations engaged on projects
• Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs new and existing software systems and/or applications for internal use, performs defect corrections (analysis, design, code)
• Provides guidance and utilizes best practices in application design and development, specific to the technology used
• Manages configurations and workflows
• Provides best practice recommendations for release planning, to include work breakdown and task planning
• Operates within a Scrum Agile development methodology, using a Scaled Agile operational model
• Able to guide and develop junior development staff
• Demonstrates industry best-practices for Salesforce development

 
Minimum Experience:

• Experience with greenfield, enhancement, and break/fix development (to include configuration activities, visual force pages, apex classes, apex triggers, etc.) in Salesforce
• Experience in Service Cloud is required
• Extensive experience with Lightning Web Components development, Apex development, and Service Cloud is required; prior Java experience is preferred
• Experience with Salesforce API integration for applications residing on various platforms
• Experience with new development and/or enhancements with Java programming, JavaScript, JSON
• Experience using DevOps tools, specifically GIT and SalesforceDX (others include Jenkins, SonarCube, etc)
• Experience with Community Cloud is considered a plus
• Experience developing and deploying mobile apps on Salesforce1 is considered a plus

Thank & Regards

Shard Phutela | Techincal Recruiter

D: 267-665-2313,

First Ring Solutions LLC | Philadelphia, PA 19102

Note: Due to high volume of calls, I may miss your call, email is the better way to reach me.