Salesforce Senior Developer

Main purpose of the job:
-To analyse, design, build and support Salesforce solutions, according to agreed system requirements specifications, gathered through collaborative requirements workshops and prototyping sessions with key stakeholders and users.
-To integrate with and migrate data to/from external applications.

-To administer/maintain and support Salesforce solutions.
-To automate business processes

Reporting To: Salesforce team lead

Responsibilities:
-Undertake structured analysis of technical issues, translating this analysis into technical designs on the Salesforce platform and associated applications
-Where appropriate; plan and lead development on sets of related stories, having understanding of the whole system, taking responsibility for teaching to others
-Develop, configure or customise software solutions to meet the user needs, producing clean, efficient, secure and well-tested architectural solutions
-Look for opportunities to collaborate and reuse components, communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
-Ensure that solution designs align with the goals of the organisation, following the digital roadmap and principles within the NAO Digital Plan
-Network and communicate with senior stakeholders and product owners, proactively seeking out opportunities for digital transformation
-Follow and improve best practice guidelines
-Find ways to improve system robustness, resilience, stability and integration
-Knowledge share with team members, mentoring and coaching junior colleagues
-Identify, test and champion the adoption of emerging technologies

Internal/External Relationships: Many internal and external relationships with NAO staff at all levels and with suppliers, vendors, technical colleagues in similar organisations.

Resources Managed: External consultants as and when required

Skills required

Essential:

-Strong communication and inter-personal skills in dealing with a range of customers, including senior managers & end-users.
-Ability to recognise and respond to business issues and priorities
-Ability to explain technical concepts to non technical staff
-Ability to support Salesforce solutions, including problem diagnosis and resolution.
-Experience of building secure applications accessible via community portal
-Practical experience of working using Agile methodologies.
-Experience of testing and implementing Salesforce critical updates
-Ability to mentor and coach less experienced members of staff
-Ability to work independently and engage supervisor as required
-Ability to architect technical solutions that fit into and facilitate an enterprise architecture
Salesforce Administration/platform Developer certifications
Salesforce technical skills
o Lightning web components
o Apex
o SOQL
o Dataloader
o Salesforce DX
o Deployment
o Creating and managing custom objects, fields, formulas, triggers, validation rules, custom workflow and approval processes
o Ability to design, code, test, debug, package and deploy quality scalable and well documented solutions on Salesforce platform using VS code