Salesforce Consultant - Tech Lead at Hays (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Our client Appirio, CRM & Cloud implementation firm is hiring a Salesforce Consultant for a 6 month contract based in Toronto,

SalesForce Consultant - Technical lead

Client: Appirio
Role: Salesforce Consultant - Tech Lead
Duration: 6 months
Rate: Negotiable (depending on experience)
Location: Toronto/Calgary, with ability to travel within Canada.


Your new role
The Senior Technical Lead designs and implements the key technical components of the customer solution and helps direct our clients technical resources to develop and deliver the project deliverables. The Senior Technical Lead reduces the overall project technical risk by uncovering design issues early in the project life-cycle, shares implementation best practices, and recommends solution alternatives. Additionally, the Senior Technical Lead partners with the Technical Architect to conduct design/code reviews during major project milestones. This is a hands on role that requires significant technical experience and abilities with Salesforce and related cloud technologies. Uses their knowledge and experience to influence and guide teams and clients.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements business technology solutions for Nonprofit and Higher Education customers, focused on cloud-based business applications, specifically, Salesforce.com.
• Hands on design and development of custom solutions on the force.com platform including significant work in Apex, VisualForce, Lightning and application integration patterns.
• Judges the tradeoffs with technology and feasibility and makes choices that fit the constraints of the project.
• Serves as the technical expert on the clients projects focused on Salesforce - Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud and the Force.com platform.
• Direct involvement and/or oversight of developing business requirements, specifications, process flows, application design, application configuration and testing
• Release and Environment Management including sandbox usage planning, metadata and data migration, environment comparisons and version control.
• Works directly with clients to lead projects, facilitates business process analysis sessions, develops and delivers key components of technology solution.
• Provides mentoring and guidance to other team members, including offshore team members

What you'll need to succeed
* 3+ years of experience (5 years preferred) in a hands-on technical leadership position with Salesforce development
* One or more current Salesforce certifications (Administrator/Advanced Administrator, Platform Developer 1 or 2, App Builder, Sales/Service Cloud)
* Knowledge of Salesforce Best Practices using Apex and Visualforce, and knowledge of Salesforce Integration patterns
* Ability to travel 40-60% of time
* Multiple Salesforce Project deployments including release and environment management
* Has hands on experience in several mid-size or enterprise, global implementations of Salesforce

What you'll get in return
The client is offering a 6 month engagement and a very competitive hourly rate for the contract.

What you need to do now
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Hays Specialist Recruitment is working in partnership with Appirio to manage the recruitment of this position.
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