Salesforce Team Lead
Department: Technology & Product
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Remote, Canada
Reporting To: Manager, Enterprise Applications
Description
Veriforce is the fastest-growing SaaS-technology and services company in the global supply chain risk management market. We help industry-leading companies create and maintain operating cultures and work environments that optimize safety, promote sustainability, and foster collaboration across a broad spectrum of internal and external stakeholders. What separates Veriforce from the rest is our people. We hire highly intelligent, growth-minded individuals that team well and continuously look for new, better ways of solving business challenges.
The Salesforce Lead Developer is a key member of our growing team. You'll be responsible for leading, mentoring, and growing a cross-functional team of talented developers, quality assurance analysts, and test automation specialists. You will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and implementing Salesforce solutions that meet business needs, ensuring optimal use of Salesforce features and functionalities.
What that means day-to-day:
Team Leadership and Management:
Lead and manage a high-performing cross-functional development team, providing regular feedback and nurturing their technical and creative problem-solving skills.
Work closely with our Product team to prioritize, assign, and deliver upcoming work, ensuring that implemented software meets long-term business objectives.
Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior team members.
Supervise the delivery of other developers on the team by setting priority and guiding deliverables.
Represent the Salesforce development team when engaged with cross-functional teams, including functional analysts, Project Management, Operations, Infrastructure, Compliance, and the business customer.
Technical Development and Implementation:
Design, develop, test, and deploy custom Salesforce solutions, including Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Components, and integrations with other systems.
Customize Salesforce to meet specific business needs by creating custom objects, fields, workflows, and validation rules.
Integrate Salesforce with other systems using APIs and middleware tools, ensuring seamless data flow and interoperability.
Conduct code reviews and ensure the quality, performance, and security of developed solutions.
Develop software solutions to business problems, leveraging established design patterns and coding standards.
Maintain code quality, organization, and automation, troubleshooting and resolving production issues as part of tier 3 support during office hours.
Project Management and Documentation:
Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
Prepare and maintain documentation for system configuration, release management, and operating procedures.
Participate in planning, decomposing, estimating, scheduling, prioritization, and resource allocation exercises.
Operate in both waterfall and Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes and methodologies.
Create and maintain documentation supporting training, system administration, deployment, and operational processes and procedures.
Diagnose, troubleshoot, and remediate incidents and problems to support the end-user community.
Contribute to the vision, roadmap, and platform investments needed to take our business solutions to the next level.
Partner with cross-functional teams, such as Infrastructure, Security, Compliance, QA, and key operational teams, to strengthen and elevate the platform from a technology perspective.
What you’ll need to be successful:
7+ years as a Senior Salesforce Developer, with 3+ years leading a team.
Salesforce Application and/or Systems Architect certification(s).
Experience with Agile methodology and building a Salesforce DevOps pipeline process.
Advanced proficiency with Force.com Platform (Apex, VisualForce, Salesforce APIs, SOQL, Unit Testing).
Proficiency with Salesforce Lightning and configuring Lightning Web components.
Experience integrating Salesforce with 3rd party tools using APIs and middleware.
Strong understanding of data migration and ETL tools.
Proficiency with code change control using BitBucket, JIRA, and Confluence.
Knowledge of sophisticated business systems integration as well as object-oriented design patterns and development.
Familiarity with Services Oriented Design Principles (SOA) and Web Services.
Familiarity with other programming languages, including JavaScript required.
Excellent communication skills and experience working in highly collaborative, cross-functional development teams.
What you’ll get in return:
Alcumus has a hybrid workplace policy. We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work, and believe that if you look after your people, they look after everything else!
Personal Health & Wellbeing
? Integrated mental health & wellbeing support
? Vacation – starting at 3 weeks
? Wellness Days & Annual Giving Day – an extra to give back to yourself or your community
? Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
? End of the year, company-wide shut down for you to relax and recharge
Future Planning
? LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development
Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements?
Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we consider applications that might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us!
Bring Your Whole Self to Work.
Alcumus is proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.
What you can expect if you apply:
A response to your application within 15 working days
An interview process consisting of:
An initial discovery call with the recruiter
A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
Additional interview with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role
We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.
