Salesforce Developer

We are looking for a Salesforce Developer! Reach out if you are interested and feel free to refer friends/colleagues!

Type of Employment: Contract to hire
Title: Salesforce Developer
Term: 6-months – 40 hours/week
Location: Toronto, London or Winnipeg – Hybrid 2-days a week on-site
Job ID number: C1157

Brief description of duties:

As a Salesforce Developer, you will be responsible for the ongoing development of our Salesforce.com platform with 4000+ users. You will have a record of success in improving processes and adoption using the platform, working closely with leaders, business units, and subject matter experts to identify, configure, and deploy new business processes. This includes, but is not limited to: sales, support, marketing and corporate.

As a Salesforce Developer, you will also have a deep understanding and grasp for executing on the day-to-day configuration, support, maintenance, and improvement of our platform.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Deliver configurations based on specifications to meet product requirements
• Collaborate with our architects, analysts, to configure and integrate components and third-party products, tools and solutions with the platform
• Identify and recommend solutions for application defects, determining root causes and minimizing the introduction of new defects
• Perform unit testing and project management activities, leading system development and providing guidance to team administrators
• Perform analysis, design, configuration, and implementation support for our platform
• Troubleshoot platform issues and drive exploration of options, recommending solutions and / or preparing discussion for escalation
• Participates in relevant business governance committees to understand business requirements
• Study and implement new Salesforce features and capabilities in support of evolving business needs
• Identify and incorporate new user flows within the platform to optimize functionality

WHO YOU ARE

• Excellent Salesforce knowledge and a positive attitude/customer focused
• Keeps up to date with platform best practices, processes, and configuration patterns
• Supports proactive identification risk and issues
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, handle and prioritize simultaneous requests
• Creative and analytical thinker with strong problem-solving skills
• Must demonstrate exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources & reconcile conflicts
• Ability to assess the impact of new requirements on Salesforce.com and all upstream and downstream applications, systems and processes

MUST haves:

• Minimum three years of experience as a Salesforce.com developer
• 3+ years technical Salesforce experience building solutions using Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Community Cloud
• Experience in Apex Code, triggers, custom object development, SFDC APIs, Web services, Force.com
• Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Developer certifications preferred
• Platform Developer 1 certification preferred
• Proven ability to design and implement new processes and facilitate user adoption
• 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
• requirements
• Previous experience working in a SCRUM or agile environment preferred