Senior Consultant, Salesforce Senior Consultant, Salesforce

Primary Purpose

• The Lead Consultant is responsible for creating the most appropriate architecture and providing technical leadership in large complexity Salesforce project(s) independently.

Responsibilities

Project Delivery

• Provide technical leadership in large complexity project(s) independently.
• Define system-level application architecture that includes high-level design, architectural policies and principles, design and programming guidelines, implementation risks and mitigation measures, software development and integration strategies, software configuration controls, etc.
• Maintain control over the architecture throughout the entire software development lifecycle by continuously making critical adjustments to the architecture to ensure desired results are achieved.
• Involve in requirement analysis phase to ensure the implementation feasibility of functional specifications. Highlight requirement gaps, disproportional construction efforts, technical challenges and any other issues to business analyst teams.
• Develop the Technical Design Specification (TDS) independently.
• Provide technical leadership in the project through established design and development methodologies, to ensure system meets functional and system requirements.
• Engage customers to explain the rationale of architecture’s selection, or other technical issues.
• Ensure best practices, frameworks and re-useable components are employed in the project.
• Trouble-shoot technical problems faced by the project team.

Organisation Development

• Coach, train and mentor Consultants.
• Share technology knowledge with the rest of organisation through Community of Practice (CoPs) or other in-house forums.
• Package and conduct technical courses.
• Contribute to knowledge repository on experience learnt through project implementation. 

Business Development

• Be involved in pre-sales solution activities to review technical solution and estimated effort prepared by proposal team.

Requirements

• Typically 7 – 10 years’ experience in technical role with responsibilities that apply in-depth knowledge of architectural principles and design.
• Requires 5 years or more experience in Salesforce projects.
• Experience in developing and deploying large scalable production applications on Cloud platforms and Containers
• Working knowledge of DevOps software development tools and methodologies.
• Broad and deep knowledge in current IT technologies.
• Proficiency in Salesforce technology specification and standards.
• Proficiency in Java-related or .Net technology specification and standards.
• Certification in appropriate technologies is an advantage.
• Self-motivated with a positive “can-do” attitude, creative with excellent presentation, communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills including strong persuasive techniques.
• Ability to lead, develop and maintain respectful and trusting relationship.
• Proficient in written and spoken English.
• Degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Information Technology related field, or IT equivalent.
• Able to travel as required.

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