Salesforce Engineer - Associate

Your key responsibilities

• Participate in the end-to-end product life cycle, including requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing, and implementation (Agile SDLC).
• Design and develop Salesforce solutions (configuration and development) in accordance with requirements and feature definitions, and in line with the overall architecture direction of the DSM programme.
• Design the application using frameworks and components to meet the requirements and clearly document the design.
• Evaluate new products for inclusion, this will include prototyping.
• Development of source code in line with detailed requirements.
• Verify the developed source code via reviews and partnering.
• Integrate software components including unit and integrated software testing according to the test plan.
• Ensure that all code changes end up in specified configuration and deployment tools.
• Provide release deployments on non-production management-controlled environments.
• Write and maintain release and deployment instructions, technical change management and fix defect/ bugs & L3 support

Your skills and experience

• Experience with development technologies, 3 years+ experience in a developer role is desirable.
• Salesforce development experience, ideally Service Cloud, Community Cloud.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas simply and effectively with concise written artefacts.
• Teamwork and communication skills are absolutely essential.
• Passion for quality and continuous improvement of processes and software, well versed with software engineering practices (e.g. continuous integration, build/deploy automation).
• Experience with Test Driven Development and Agile software development methodologies.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and create a positive working atmosphere.
• Passion for sharing knowledge and best practices, and promote collaboration, in virtual/ matrix teams.

Technical Skills:

Candidate should have experience in several of the following:

• Strong knowledge of Java programming language and/or web development.
• Experience in Salesforce.com applications development, configuration and implementation. (Apex Classes Controllers, Triggers, SOQL, SOSL, Visual Force, Lightning Components and Salesforce APIs.
• UI development expertise, HTML5, Javascript, JQuery and CSS, and frameworks such as, AngularJS, Struts
• Enterprise Integration Solutions (Apache Camel, Tibco ESB, IBM MQ, Mulesoft or Informatica)
• Web API development Rest/SOAP Services and processing tools, REST, JSON and REST frameworks
• DevOps - Eclipse, Git, BitBucket, Sonar, Jira, Confluence, Crucible, Jenkins and/ or TeamCity

Experience with the following would be highly desirable:

• Analytics experience with tools such as Tableau, QlikView, Einstein.
• Knowledge of standard databases like Oracle, MS-SQL and appreciation of Big Data/ NO SQL approaches.
• Knowledge of web containers, like Apache, and J2EE servers: JBoss, Oracle Weblogic, IBM Websphere etc.
• Knowledge of cloud solutions and hosting cloud patterns such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Integration approaches for messaging, telephony & workflow platforms (IBM BPM, Pega etc).