Senior Salesforce Consultant
Description
Role & responsibilities
Business Consulting & Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with business leaders to understand objectives and translate them into platform capabilities.
- Facilitate requirements workshops, solution discovery, and impact analysis.
- Advise Customer Service, Sales Operations, Credit, and Billing on future-state process improvements.
- Provide day-to-day technical guidance for account management, hierarchy maintenance, ownership, and compensation.
Salesforce Solution Architecture & Design
- Design enterprise-grade solutions across Sales Cloud and Service Cloud and the end-to-end customer lifecycle.
- Produce solution designs, architecture diagrams, process flows, and technical specifications.
• Recommend scalable, secure, maintainable designs aligned to Salesforce best practices and governor limits.
- Lead technical design reviews and architecture governance for the platform.
Platform Development & Engineering
- Design and build with Apex, Triggers, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and Flows.
- Deliver Platform Events, REST/SOAP APIs, Custom Objects, Custom Metadata, Validation Rules, and Approval Processes.
- Implement enhancements for account and case management, routing, hierarchies, ownership, and compensation.
- Build reusable, well-tested components and continuously reduce technical debt.
Enterprise Integration Leadership
- Design and maintain integrations with MuleSoft, the customer master (CDM), TMS, billing, order management, and ERP systems.
- Define integration architecture, authentication standards, asynchronous patterns, and error handling.
- Monitor inbound and outbound interfaces and resolve synchronization, automation, and data-processing failures.
Production Support & Platform Reliability (Managed Services)
• Investigate and resolve production incidents across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, integrations, and automation.
- Monitor scheduled jobs, Batch Apex, Queueable Apex, Platform Events, Flows, and asynchronous processes.
- Perform root cause analysis for recurring issues and implement permanent, preventative solutions.
- Run proactive health checks and safeguard service levels and overall platform performance.
Data Management, Governance & Reconciliation
- Reconcile data between Salesforce and integrated systems to ensure consistency and integrity.
- Support migration, bulk updates, duplicate management, cleansing, and validation activities.
• Investigate discrepancies and coordinate corrective actions across enterprise applications.
Release, DevOps & Quality Engineering
- Own the full SDLC development, unit testing, SIT, UAT, deployment, and post-production validation.
- Coordinate releases using DevOps and CI/CD best practices with strong deployment governance.
- Perform code reviews, optimize performance, and ensure compliance with governor limits and standards.
Technical Leadership & Continuous Improvement
• Evaluate emerging Salesforce capabilities and recommend platform improvements.
- Mentor developers and administrators; establish coding standards and best practices.
• Maintain technical specifications, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and knowledge articles.
Preferred candidate profile
8+ years of Salesforce experience across delivery and production support.
- Deep expertise in Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, including case management and the customer lifecycle.
- Strong hands-on development with Apex, LWC, Flows, and Platform Events.
Salesforce Application Architect and/or System Architect.
• Salesforce Platform Developer II.
• Salesforce Administrator and Advanced Administrator.
• Experience in transportation, logistics, supply chain, or another integration-heavy, high-volume industry.
• Familiarity with a customer master / MDM platform (e.g., Oracle Fusion CDM) as an upstream source.
• Cloud platform experience (Microsoft Azure preferred).