Salesforce Developer - Johannesburg at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. Create custom and scalable processes in the Sales, Service and Financial Clouds within Salesforce.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Research design and deliver Salesforce solutions for multiple lines of business, collaborating with analysts, business owners and team members to deliver results in a timely manner.
• Apply configuration solutions, write code and where necessary create customizations that meet business needs.
• Follow applicable standards, procedures, guidelines, and methodologies in the support, documentation and/or maintenance of systems.
• Perform end user training as well as internal cross training to other team members.

Requirements:

• 3+ years developing applications for the Salesforce.com platform.
• 3 year IT qualification
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages (APEX, VisualForce, JavaScript, SOQL, HTML5 etc.).
• Strong ability to interface with end users to solve issues and elicit requirements.
• Solid understanding of key SFDC architectural concepts (e.g. API and governor limits) and how they influence design.
• Certified Platform Developer 1
• Experience working on an agile development team.

Candidate must have experience in Visual Force pages, Apex development in creating Objects, Triggers, Apex Classes, Standard Controllers, Custom Controllers and Controller Extensions.

They must also have experience in Salesforce setup menu, configuration options, custom application development, administration, communities, data migration and deployment of applications to Force.com platform.

Must understand roles, profiles and users, and have knowledge of security and sharing rules on objects, fields, and record level for different users at different levels of organization. Worked with Page Layouts, Workflows, Actions, Alerts, Reports, Approval Processes, Pick-lists, Custom Formula Fields, Field Dependencies and Validation Rules.

Experience with Marketing Cloud advantageous.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology