Salesforce Developer

Salesforce Architect

Location: Pune | Salesforce Years of Experience: 8 Years+

About the role:

As a Salesforce Pre-Sales Solution Architect, you will own the integrity and strength of the

solutions recommended. You’ll be acting as a trusted advisor to our team and clients, and an

effective mentor for other Salesforce professionals working alongside you. You will need a

deep understanding of the Salesforce platform but just as importantly, top-notch people

skills to get your ideas and solutions across to stakeholders and gain integrity to get your

visions built into successful solutions.

Responsibilities

This is a varied Salesforce Solution Architect role, with the following responsibilities:

 Conduct research into clients’ use of Salesforce, producing a report of findings with

recommended steps and a roadmap for Salesforce solutions,

 Provides technical support in sales calls, solution presentations, and assists the client

partners in managing the deal cycle

 Translates customer business objectives and requirements into solutions and level-

of-effort estimates to implement those solutions

 Provides input for RFI and RFP responses, including the effort estimate, project team,

timeline, implementation methodology and solution components

 Delivers excellent Salesforce sales presentations to the customer in support of the

sales process

 Acts as trusted advisor to customers by anticipating customer needs and identifying

appropriate solution alternatives

 Responds to customer questions and objections on technical issues

 Validates technical recommendations against customer requirements and assists

with preparing statements of work

 A strategic approach to solution design, with a proven ability to develop and execute

tactical plans to support the strategy

 Collaborate with colleagues and customers to create prototypes and proofs of

concept as a means of eliciting and defining requirements,

 Review solutions and recommending improvements,

 Groom and refine the Salesforce product backlog, in liaison with stakeholders on the

project,

 Own the design of Salesforce and (optionally) other affiliated solutions for Sales,

Service, and platform solutions,

 Act as a release manager, approving configuration and coded items to be deployed

between environments. Where appropriate, this could include deploying changes,

 Provide guidance on user story writing style,

 Ensure success and acceptance criteria are defined for each story,

 Describe and illustrate designs with appropriate justifications,

 Ensure documentation of the steps for testing,

 Groom and refine the Salesforce product backlog, in liaison with Salesforce SMEs,

 Supervise the configuration, quality assurance, testing, and deployment of

Salesforce,

 Collaborative project and workstream planning.

Required Qualifications and Background

 At least 5 years’ experience in a leading role in designing & providing solutions in

Salesforce projects,

 Excellent communication skills, written, verbal, and interactive when online,

 Minimum Salesforce certified:

 Administrator

 Sales Cloud Consultant

 Service Cloud Consultant

 Platform App Builder

 Salesforce Designer certifications,

 Salesforce Architecture certifications – Technical & Solution Architect

Hiring for Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer (SFCC) at Appcino Technologies.

• Lead the effort to design, build and configure applications, acting as the primary point of contact.
• On need basis design, build and configure applications to meet up business process and application requirements.
• SFRA, Demandware, site genesis must have worked upon.
• Lead large-scale eCommerce implementations, utilizing Salesforce Commerce Cloud B2C, providing both oversight and hands on contributions to the software design, development, and integration
• Independently lead the estimation effort for a project
• Participate in the development of conceptual and logical architectures
• Design, develop and maintain application architectures that support client’s business requirements
• Resolve integration and interfacing issues between various back-end systems
• Optimize application performance and scalability

Requirements

• Minimum 3 to 7 Years of experience in software industry are required.
• Experience in Salesforce Lightning B2C Commerce
• Experience in Apex, Salesforce Lightning components, Force.com
• Strong E-commerce platform development is preferred
• Good experience at applying clean code best practices and good debugging skills
• Good understanding of Salesforce security model, Communities, and best practices

• Hands-on experience with salesforce CPQ
• Judges the trade-offs with technology and feasibility and makes choices that fit the constraints of the project.
• Serves as the technical expert on Appirio projects focused on Salesforce.com, vlocity and the Force.com platform.
• Designs and implements business technology solutions focused on cloud-based business applications, specifically, Salesforce.com.
• Direct involvement and/or oversight of developing business requirements, specifications, process flows, application design, application configuration, testing and deployment.
• Works directly with clients to lead projects, facilitates business process analysis sessions, develops and delivers key components of technology solution.
• Provides mentoring and guidance to other team members, including offshore team members.
• Conducts business with the utmost professionalism including:
• Fulfills commitments consistently on-time and proactively escalates commitments that are in jeopardy. 
• Attends meetings on time, always.   
• Judges the tradeoffs with technology and feasibility and makes choices that fit the constraints of the project.
• Familiar with project management fundamentals and fulfilling the project management role on projects.
• Direct involvement and/or oversight of developing business requirements, specifications, process flows, application design, application configuration, testing and deployment. 
• Works directly with clients to lead projects, facilitates business process analysis sessions, develops and delivers key components of technology solution. 
• Provides mentoring and guidance to other team members, including offshore team members. 
• Confident and willing to challenge a customer and guide the customer towards the appropriate solution for their needs and push back if a customer is asking for solutions that aren't in their best interest.
• Ability to guide customer towards creative uses of standard cloud software functionality to meet business requirements instead of simply relying on custom code solutions. 
• Travels to client site as required.  
• Generates timely status reports, time tracking, and expense reports.
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• Understand platform limitations and design alternatives to work around limitations
• Ability to split time between many projects at once
• Identify when business requirements conflict with technical capabilities
• Provide constructive feedback to project teams
• Monitor technical deliverables for consistent quality as well as compliance with Appirio standards
• Partner with project managers to monitor project status and risk areas
• Perform the most advanced design and development tasks

• 4-7 years of Industry experience in IT or consulting organizations
• 3+ years of experience defining and delivering Salesforce.com enterprise applications in lead developer role
• Must have hands on Salesforce Lightning and UI development experience 
• Excellent overall understanding of the Salesforce core product suite combined with deep understanding of CRM business processes in sales, marketing & customer service.
• Hands on development knowledge of relevant Salesforce architecture concepts, data & security structures, enterprise integration, as well as configuration and customization options (including Apex, Lightning, Custom UI, JS, Integration, API etc.)
• Web development experience including CSS, JavaScript, HTML5, AJAX, jQuery
• Knowledge of Oracle DB SQL 
• Development experience with Integration tools. Informatica Cloud/PowerCenter is a plus 

• Preferred from medical industry
• Onsite available post completion of 18 Months.

• Customize, develop and support solutions on salesforce.com platform.
• Develop, test, document and deploy high quality solutions for our clients.
• Working closely with clients and the development team to determine the project requirements.
• Document unit test scripts and record test results post completion of development.
• Review self and peer's code/configuration as part of review process.

Hard Skills

• Strong understanding of the SDLC
• (Agile and Waterfall approaches and tools)
• Advanced Salesforce customization/coding (Apex & Visualforce development)
• Salesforce data loading & using data loader/Data stage/related tools.
• Lightning component experience preferred.
• Knowledge in Java/.Net Programming & OOPs concepts is an added advantage.
• Basic source control knowledge Git/SVN
• Proficient in building integrated solution involving web services using both REST and SOAP
• Strong in RDBMS concepts, SQL and SOQL query languages and ER concepts
• Experience of developing using Eclipse/Mavens Mate IDE
• Hands on experience in migrating code/configuration to production is an added advantage.

Good to have

• Certifications on Salesforce Admin, App Builder, Platform Developer 1 is a must
• Comfortable & familiar with MS office tools
• Analytical & problem-solving skills
• Clear communication and articulation ability
• Team player

Soft Skills

• Effective written and oral communication
• Inspire and motivate the team to perform at their best.
• Professional maturity to give and receive feedback.
• Supports team members in meeting their commitments.
• Good presentation skills to run governance and steering committee meetings.
• Excellent listening skills with sharp acumen to replay or summarize conversations especially when a client is involved.
• Ability to cross/up sell when there is an opportunity.
• Understand client business and add value to requirement conversation.