CRM/Salesforce Developer at Absa

About the job
The Salesforce Developer is responsible for building and delivering, high quality products and/or systems and services to the identified architecture that exceed customer or business stakeholder expectations. This engineer will be a subject matter expert for technical solutions and business processes in their area of responsibility and will also lead selected projects or activities, as required, and will collaborate with other disciplines and teams within and outside of IT to ensure consistency, quality and successful delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, deliver, maintain and implement high quality technical solutions on CRM / Salesfroce
• Possess and apply a broad knowledge of principles, practices, and procedures of
• software development to the completion of difficult assignments.
• Participate fully in all phases of the project lifecycle including technical analysis, detailed design, coding/configuration and delivery, as relevant including in Salesforce environment/platform management and release management documentation and practices
• Analyze, define, document and/or review technical requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, interfaces with other systems and/or services, internal and external checks and controls, and outputs.
• Produce relevant documentation to describe logic, coding/configuration, testing and changes where applicable.
• Undertake research on best practice guidelines and continuously strive to make improvements to the existing products and/or systems and services.
• Seek out and act upon feedback received and provide quality feedback to other team members to aid their personal development.
• where required, assist in educating others (within and outside of IT) regarding the impacts of planned deliveries and/or in the use of relevant tools
• Ensure all development is completed to the required quality standards, identify opportunities for continuous improvement of development processes and pro-actively transfer knowledge amongst team members.
• Keep up to date with relevant technology areas including full Salesforce Ecosystem of connected Apps, new features and release cycle and encourage others to do likewise.

Skill Know How:

•  Ability to interpret user requirements and translate these into technical specifications and/or code
•  High numerical reasoning and logic ability with strong problem solving skills
•  Extensive knowledge of the principles of database design including modelling logical and physical data schemas where appropriate
•  Proficient with one or more relevant programming languages, frameworks and databases
•  Excellent at troubleshooting in complex software issues, including those in unfamiliar code
•  be an active and enthusiastic team player
•  be able to take responsibility for planning and delivering team activities
•  be willing to adapt to, and lead initiatives that contribute to significant changes in either technology or environment
•  be interested in self-development including the maintenance of personal technical competence in all relevant areas
•  be a role model IT professional, demonstrating excellence in a range of general software engineering practices
•  Effective communicator and influencer to technical and non-technical audiences with excellent relationship management skills

Skill Knowledge:

•  Minimum 7 years’ experience within APEX, SOQL, SQL, AWS, API Gateway.
•  Experience working with CRM Systems/Salesforce SOAP, REST API services and solid Integration skills.
•  Experience in working with Java scripting and Hadoop. 
•  Experience in working with GIT,JIRA, Intelliji, leveraging continuous integration practices for change Management and version control.
•  Good working knowledge of software development lifecycles and development methodologies, e.g. Scrum, Waterfall.

Technical / professional qualifications: 

• Degree holder (desirable) and/or relevant professional qualification and/or relevant work experience in related discipline that demonstrates a proven aptitude for software development