Salesforce Developer / Architect at Distell

The Role

The Salesforce Architect will lead the ongoing development of our salesforce.com environment. The successful candidate will have a record of success in improving processes and adoption using the Force.com platform. The architect will work closely with functional leaders, organizational units, and subject matter experts to identify, develop and deploy new business processes including: CIC, Service and Sales functions; B2B and Marketing functions and our Rep mobility functionalities. This role will suit an individual with strong Salesforce Architect experience, thorough Salesforce developer skills, project management and Salesforce analyst experience. The Architect will be responsible for the Roadmap management of the overall Salesforce environments, Upgrade Management, Solution Architecture and development of our CRM platform.

Key performance areas would include, but are not limited to:

• Ensure solution enhancement and continuous improvement in area(s) of expertise.
• Investigation and implementation of appropriate CRM solutions and configuring according to business requirements.
• Actively manage the maintenance of the Salesforce Environments
• Plan, Coordinate and manage the Upgrades of the Salesforce Environments
• Complete regular internal system audits and prepare for upgrades
• Ensure Integration Integrity to and from Salesforce within the Distell landscape
• Manage data feeds and other integrations
• Vet New Development Requests in line with Salesforce Roadmap
• Coordinate the evaluation, scope and completion of new development requests
• Perform development in the Force.com platform where and as required
• Work with our management team to establish suitable processes to support administrative, development, and change management activities
• Assist in training of new users, and grow the Salesforce.com skill set across the organization
• Effectively act as the liaison between our users, vendors and the application development teams
• Work independently with members of the user community to define and document development requirements
• Testing configured solutions and designs.
• Testing of upgraded systems
• Actively participate as a team member on ICT Projects.
• Training and continuous improvement of our Support and Training teams          

The successful candidate must have the following experience/skills:

• Relevant post matric qualification (e.g. BComm, BSc, BEng, MSc, BCa, MCa)
• Proven Salesforce Developer skills including but not limited to: Experience in designing custom objects, custom fields, picklists, page layouts, workflow, approval processes, validation rules, custom tabs, reports, Visualforce pages, dashboards, and email generation according to application requirements. App Builder skills, Experience extending Salesforce declaratively and programmatically, Familiarity with Lightning Components, both Aura and LWC, BackboneJS and HandlebarsJS
• Proven Salesforce Architect skills
• Very Strong understanding of the platform, with the ability to build custom apps and objects, formula fields, workflows, custom views, and other content of intermediate complexity
• Strong understanding of Salesforce.com best practices and functionality
• Strong data management abilities
• Previous experience working in a SCRUM or agile environment mandatory
• Mentors team/support members in technology and delivery of applications
• Successful teamwork experience and demonstrated leadership abilities are required
• Experience with JIRA, MIRO or similar toolset preferred
• Ability to work under pressure
• Valid driver’s licence
• Ability and means to seamlessly work from home