Salesforce.com Developer

Our hugely popular client provides companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. Growth is driving a rapid expansion of its worldwide sales team and the need for an experienced SALESFORCE.COM DEVELOPER to drive automation of processes and manage the integrations to various business systems for the Salesforce.com (SFDC) environment. This includes technical design/development, configuration, maintenance, and integration with other databases/systems. This company has a strong culture of data-driven decision making requiring timely, accurate, and actionable intelligence that delivers significant business value. SFDC is an integral tool in making informed decisions, and this is a great opportunity for a talented SFDC Developer to add significant value to the team.

The successful candidate must be able to work directly with the system/data, lead multiple technical projects or portions at one time, as well as provide solutions that are highly usable, scalable, extensible, and maintainable on the Force.com platform. They will be passionate about their work, self-motivated, detail oriented and have excellent problem solving abilities. S/He will deal with highly ambiguous problems, taking full control and responsibility for finding solutions, and will drive towards simple solutions to complex problems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Ownership of all technical aspects of Salesforce.com, including data migrations, data quality, systems integrations, 3rd party applications, AppExchange products, and custom code
- Responsible for developing in Visualforce, Apex, Java, AJAX, and other technologies to build customized solutions that support business requirements and drive key business decisions
- Technical leadership, setting best practices including integration and application development, deployment, testing (unit and systems), and iterative refinement
- Seek out ways to utilize SFDC to improve processes and productivity, and make recommendations to support an organization scaling at a rapid pace
- Define, communicate, and manage a change management (release) process to develop and implement new applications/code and updates to existing applications/code

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or related field
- 1+ years previous development experience with Salesforce.com (Certified Salesforce.com Developer)
- Solid understanding of and detailed experience with Salesforce.com architecture and API
- Detailed experience writing Visualforce and Apex classes and triggers
- Proficiency in HTML, XML, Flex, JavaScript, ASP, SQL, Java or C++, SOAP-based web services
- Strong business analysis and functional experience, including requirements gathering, creating/deploying solutions to end users
- Strong attention to detail and excellent problem solving skills
- Strong verbal/written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
- High standard of education or compensating work experience
- Local candidates only

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or related field
- Certified Force.com Developer (DEV-401) or equivalent experience
- Certified Force.com Advanced Developer (DEV-501) or equivalent experience
- Certified Salesforce.com Administrator (ADM-201) or equivalent experience
- Advanced SQL and Excel skills
- Experience using Salesforce data tools (Data Loader, Excel Connector, DemandTools, Eclipse Force.com IDE)
- Experience integrating Salesforce.com with other applications via Real Time, batch, sync/async
- Understanding of UI design principles and best practices
- Technical project management experience
- In-depth understanding of the capabilities and constraints of the SFDC CRM application coupled with good understanding of the business processes (Sales, Marketing, Partner Management, etc.)
- Technical project management experience
- Professional experience in a test-driven and formal QA development environment, including development/staging/production (or similar) deployment cycles
- Knowledge of Agile development practices, particularly sprint planning and assessment
- Experience with Sites, Partner and/or Customer Portal, Single Sign-On, eSignature
- Highly innovative, flexible and self-directed
- Results-oriented person with a delivery focus
- Strong organization skills
- Handles multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience working with large-scale, complex datasets