SalesForce - AVP

Role Description

• The SalesForce Program Development Team within DWS Global Technology is aiming to recruit a Senior Developer. This role is ideal for an experienced SalesForce Developer who is seeking a challenging and rewarding engagement, with the potential to grow both their career and their understanding of this strategic system.
• In DWS Asset Management, SalesForce is used for Client Relationship Management (CRM), Know Your Customer (KYC) and to support the DWS Asset Management Sales organisation to conform to regulatory requirements such as MiFID or GDPR (EU Data Protection Rules).

Your key responsibilities

Reporting to the Salesforce Application Development Manager, the key objective of this role is to provide analysis and development of issues and develop components to help manage the implementation of SalesForce project deliverables. Working with the business and technical delivery teams through the end to end software development lifecycle, to deliver a high quality solution that meets the clients needs.

Specific responsibilities of the role include ensuring that:

• Work with Business Analysts and Project Managers to understand functional requirements at a high level and set development expectations as needed for specific project deliverables
• Creation of relevant Technical Solutions for use in hybrid agile development environment
• Collaboration with development team as needed to deliver metadata components into the SalesForce system following our SDLC Lifecycle promotion path
• Perform Senior Developer duties such as create new code components, support and maintain existing code components and support our Production environments and implementations using bank approved tools.

Your skills and experience

This role will suit a candidate who is comfortable operating within a team and is able to see the bigger development picture, as well as being immersed in the detail. It requires a dynamic, enthusiastic, self-starter, with a strong work ethic, who has a passion for delivering tangible business value.

The skills and experience that are most relevant to the role are:

• Very strong experience (5-10 years) with SalesForce configuration and development skills to a certified level.
• 5-10 years of experience working on SalesForce project deliverable components in the financial sector or similar heavily regulated industry (Asset Management/Banking being preferred)
• Experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce Service Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, related installed AppExchange packages APTTUS and GEOPOINTE, Salesforce1 Mobile and Einstein Analytics.
• Experience with Salesforce CRM technologies such as: SOQL, Lightning Components, Visualforce Components, Apex Classes, Apex Triggers, JavaScript, JAVA, JSON, FLOWS etc..
• Experience working with tools and deployments using tools like IntelliJ, Bitbucket, Git, TeamCity, Force.com IDE, Eclipse, ANT Migration tool, Change Sets, Data loader, Informatica ETL tools
• Excellent problem solving skills, with the ability and mind set to jump in during collaboration and resolve issues
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, experience with breaking down business problems into developing technical solutions and components.