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Valenture Institute is a private online high school offering an academically rigorous, socially-rich learning experience that equips students with the skills and courage to drive social change for a sustainable future.
Description
Valenture Institute partners with the world’s leading education institutions to transform physical limitations into digital opportunities. We create new opportunities for students to choose an aspirational online learning experience by offering fully-supported online high school programmes.
As a social enterprise, Valenture Institute is also committed to levelling the playing field and increasing access for all students through free curriculum offerings, extensive scholarship programs and blended learning micro schools in underprivileged communities.
The role:
Summary:
The Salesforce Solutions Architect is responsible for the technical design and implementation of Valenture Institute’s Salesforce-based solutions, including its CRM and Student Information Systems. The Salesforce Solutions Architect supports the Salesforce Product Architect in a technical capacity and utilises their deep knowledge and experience of the Salesforce stack to ensure implementations follow sound engineering principles and best practises.
Responsibilities:
Liaise with the Product Management team to refine business requirements and processes as they relate to our Salesforce implementations.
Perform Salesforce technical solution design spanning data models, flows, triggers, integrations and custom objects.
Oversee Salesforce implementations, environments and deployment processes to ensure they comply with best practises in terms of scale, security and performance.
Manage technical debt wisely balancing business priorities and deadlines with sound engineering principles.
Perform technical implementation including configuration, administration, writing code, performing code reviews, writing tests and other implementation-related activities.
Work with Software Quality Manager and Salesforce Product Architect to perform SIT, regression testing and coordinate UAT (with Product Managers) to validate that deliverables meet technical and business expectations.
Work with DevOps Manager and Salesforce Product Architect to plan and execute production deployments providing business impact context. Perform post-deployment validation and regression testing as necessary.
Custodian of Salesforce technical solution documentation.
Triage and resolve escalated Salesforce related queries, bugs and issues of a technical nature.
Requirements
BSc Computer Science, Engineering or BSc/BComm Information Systems
Salesforce Certified Application Architect and/or System Architect certifications
4+ years of Salesforce solution design and implementation experience
Involvement in at least 5 sophisticated Salesforce implementations
Project lead on at least 2 Salesforce implementations
4+ years experience using programmatic and declarative tools to achieve business requirements
2+ years Salesforce Lightning experience
Exceptional communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
Highly organised
Advantageous:
Salesforce Education or Nonprofit Cloud experience is a major advantage
Project management experience and/or certification
Benefits
Family member discount to Valenture Institute
Remote working
Voluntary savings programme
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