Salesforce Consultant

Client & Position Details

Job Title: Salesforce Consultant

Location: Columbus, OH 43004

Duration: 3+ Months

Requirement Description

Client plans to modernize its IT environment by moving many of its applications to Salesforce. Client is a legacy .NET shop so internal staff will be required to learn Salesforce in order to provide ongoing support, maintenance and enhancements

For this role Client is looking for a resource that has strong Salesforce solution development experience to include configuring Salesforce, working with Salesforce API’s and developing customizations (i.e. using Apex). The candidate will need to have experience working with the various Salesforce environments (e.g. promoting code from the sandbox to production). This person will also need to have strong communication skills to work effectively with customers and to serve as a trainer/mentor of clients’s in-house application developers who are learning Salesforce. We expect the person will have a good understanding of the various Salesforce licenses, communities and best practices for Salesforce development. Experience with Lightning is a plus.

Ideal candidate will have broad based past experience in designing, prototyping, and building custom data centric web based applications in either MS or Oracle based client/server environments.

The developer would be asked to work with business users on helping to develop requirements and functionality that is desired by the business, so excellent communication skills are a must.

Break down of work

• New Development/Maintenance – 30-40% - independent development work
• Training/Mentoring – 40-50% - educating PUCO IT team on Salesforce and assisting with development activity assigned to PUCO staff
• Standards/Contract Review – 10-20% - help establish standards for Salesforce development at PUCO and assist with review of design/development work of PUCO contracted Salesforce integrators
• Currently PUCO has six .NET developers, and two Business Analysts. This person will function as the lead Salesforce developer.

Mandatory Requirements/Time

• 5 plus years if experience with Salesforce.com (S-Controls, AJAX Toolkit, Apex API) development experience including Apex.
• 1 Year of experience working with Salesforce setting up Salesforce communities.
• 8 plus years of experience in object oriented programming (Java) to include skills in HTML, XML, scripting languages (JavaScript, PL SQL)
• 3 plus years of Enterprise Architecture Experience
• 3 plus years mentoring or training developers
• 3 plus years of experience developing custom solutions

Desired Skills/Time

• Experience in INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION & VALIDATION (IV&V)

***Manager Notes

Candidate must have experience setting up Salesforce Communities and setting up an organization to run Salesforce for the first time. Core development is also a must with Apex and visual force. ***

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