Lead Salesforce Developer

Lead Salesforce Developer

Location: Canada- Remote

Position Responsibilities

Strategy, Design and Planning

• Design solutions for the prioritized capabilities that come out of the product increment planning each quarter.
• Get the user stories detailed down to the technical steps, own the creation of the technical requirements for the work that is assigned.
• Plan the team's iterative releases.
• Own and create the detailed design documentation for the prioritized capabilities.
• Plan the work for the development team and have detailed technical discussions towards solution design, in collaboration with the architect.
• Create documentation for the story cards that are owned.
• Provide accurate story point estimation towards the requirements in JIRA story cards and identify scenarios that help build the solution forward.

Development, Testing and Deployment

• Lead development, from design through testing and deployment
• Implement, deploy and document projects that leverage the Salesforce.com toolset
• Facilitate the technical sessions with the rest of the developers on the team
• Complete all design, development and testing on the work assigned.
• Thoroughly test each story card in the lower environments before turning the code to QA for testing.
• Create the deployment playbook for all releases, provide detailed tasks for the technical areas of the deployment, encompassing back-out plans and communication plan.
• Lead the release to ensure smooth deployment into production.

Operational Management

• Align the team's releases with the core platform release calendar.
• Ensure all development is in line with code coverage requirements, test class and health metrics.
• Track dependencies with other teams towards successful sprint completion as well as deployments.
• Validate that the product has been correctly packaged before deployment and ensure that all release controls have been satisfied.
• Participate in release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and business go/no-go reviews.
• Work with other sprint teams to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Lead and co-ordinate the go-live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists.
• Keep the developer sandbox up to date with back promotions where relevant to help accuracy in the environments.

Position Requirements

Formal Education & Certification

• College diploma or university degree in the field of computer science and/or 8 years of relevant work experience.
• Certifications in Salesforce technologies

Certifications in Agile project management practices

Knowledge & Experience

• Bachelor's degree with 5-8 years of experience in the Salesforce technologies
• Salesforce Certifications required
• Experience with Salesforce platform programming languages - Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Component framework
• Lightning Web Component development experience
• Lightning Design System framework
• Declarative Force.com development tools such as Process Builder, Visual Workflow, Lightning App Builder and aura components
• Follow established Salesforce development standards and best practices
• Be comfortable communicating with technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven experience in overseeing the design, development, testing, and deployment of software releases in Salesforce technologies.
• Proven experience with release management and environment management, sandbox refreshes
• Working knowledge of release and deployment standards.
• Excellent software troubleshooting experience.
• Excellent understanding of the organization's goals and objectives.