Salesforce Consultant

Baltimore

General Summary

AvideonCRM is a regional Salesforce.com Consulting Partner experiencing significant growth. The Salesforce Consultant position is a fundamental role in assuring the success of our growth by supporting SFDC implementation with numerous clients, integration and overall planning of Salesforce.com Enterprise-level accounts.

Our employees love Avideon because we support a veriety of clients at various levels with Salesforce.com. It's a challenging and fun environment where you can learn a significant amount about Salesforce.com as it relates to many businesses.

This position requires limited regional travel and working direction with clients.

AvideonCRM is looking for Salesforce.com Consultants to review and provide guidance on the Force.com platform Configuration, Security model, Integration methodologies, Secure data exchange, Release and Change Management processes.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

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
Work closely with clients to deploy a solution around well-formed complex business requirements.
Work with technical resources to create and implement unique solutions leveraging the full power of the Salesforce.com platform
Review and Hands-on advise on best practices of designing/developing Force.com solutions including coding standards, Sharing of Objects, version control, Testing Methodologies (unit testing, regression testing and system integration testing).
Documentation of requirements and specifications for custom components and interfaces
Lead system design discussions and recommend alternate choices, trade-offs, and provide impact analysis
Contribute practical experiences with Salesforce.com and system integrations
Provide detailed guidance on controlled deployment of Force.com applications and SFDC platform releases.
Review SFDC security model including user authentication, profiles, permission sets, roles, etc. configured in SFDC environment and provide recommendations to manage multiple validated applications in multiple ORGs.
Review API, governor limits, and features of the validated ORG and provide recommendations to enable the ORG to deploy multiple validated applications.
Provide support to Client Teams.

External Requirements

TECHNICAL, MANAGERIAL, And PEOPLE SKILLS REQUIRED

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Incumbents will be evaluated, in part, based on performance of each essential function. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or related field
4+ years' application development and design experience
4+ years' experience developing applications for the Salesforce.com platform
Certified Salesforce.com Administrator (ADM-201) or equivalent experience
Sales cloud consultant or equivalent experience
Familiar with Cloud Computing concepts and how to conduct requirement gathering sessions with respect to Salesforce.com technologies
Working experience of key Salesforce architectural concepts and how they influence solution design.
Participation in each phase of Salesforce implementations, planning-analysis-design/architect-build-deploy and support
In-depth understanding of the capabilities and constraints of the Salesforce application coupled with good understanding of the business processes and Salesforce ecosystem (AppExchange)
Strong technical foundation
Understands data migration practices
Understands web services and available technologies not necessarily part of the Salesforce.com stack, but those which might be utilized to transport data in an enterprise environment (E.g. Informatica, Jitterbit)
Delivering SFDC Force.com applications architecture, development, integration, application testing and deployment

EDUCATION And/or EXPERIENCE

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or related field
4+ years' application development and design experience
4+ years' experience developing applications for the Salesforce.com platform

LICENSURE and/or CERTIFICATION

Certified Salesforce.com Administrator (ADM-201) or equivalent experience
Sales cloud consultant or equivalent experience

Business Competencies

Technical Knowledge
Sensitivity to Customer Needs
Ability to Remain Focused
Leadership Skills
Excellent Oral and Written Communications Skills
Detail orientation, and the ability to record, organize, and communicate detail
An interest in people, and the ability to grow relationships
A broad technical knowledge base, with the ability and desire to keep informed of emerging technology.
Skill in organizing and motivating resources, and the ability to drive and account for work
A propensity and willingness to learn new technologies

Jobs

Salesforce.com Consultants