Salesforce Technical Consultant

About the Salesforce Business Group
Accenture's Salesforce Business Group is the part of Accenture Technology devoted to selling, delivering, and supporting Salesforce technology-based projects across Australia & New Zealand. Part of our global practice, our local and international ability is recognised unanimously as number 1 by Industry Analysts in their annual ratings on Salesforce consulting partners. We think we're unique among our peers with our ability to understand Salesforce, its ecosystem and the career goals of those working in the Ohana. We also bring our collective Accenture capability to our Salesforce work. We work with our industry, consulting, strategy, service design and digital consultants to transform our clients.

Beyond doing the most exciting and most significant projects with the best team, we are at the foundation an Ohana (meaning family). We believe we offer individuals a supportive home to grow your career no matter what your level of experience, specialty, gender, family situation, heritage, or life goals. And if you're working from the kitchen bench or have an upset child in the background, we want to let you know that we get it. You'll feel our team's difference from the moment you speak with us. We're proud of the culture that shines through.

What’s On Offer

• A leadership team whose Managing Directors have a collective 50 years of experience in Salesforce delivery.

• Over 270 of your Salesforce specialist peers, including 9 Certified Technical Architects.

• Work with some of Australia's biggest brands on complex and groundbreaking projects.

• Access to unlimited Salesforce and nCino certification vouchers across the entire product catalogue.

• Attend formal and informal training, such as our Ohana Meetings, My Trailhead courses or our Accenture accreditations for Delivery Lead, Technical Architect and Solution Architect.

• A merit-based structured career program.

• Take on responsibilities in one of our communities of practice and build a career that could last your entire professional life.

The Work

• Create a high-level design of an end-to-end integration solution. Define the flow of data between the applications that must be integrated, mapping business process activities to the applications that support them and drafting a data object.

• Salesforce and APEX code expert who understands and can implement Apex SOAP and REST web services.

• Good hands-on knowledge of Process builder, Flow, Workflows, Approvals, Apex Triggers, Apex Classes, Visual Force Pages, SOQL & SOSL, Data Loader, Lightning Component Framework, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce Lightning Design System, Lightning App Builder

• Understands and applies appropriate techniques for error and exception handling in various programmatic contexts.

• Implements best practices for trigger development and design patterns, other business logic development, and re-use.

• Understands the principles and best practices of Salesforce data modelling, interface design, code development, and testing, and can apply these principles in real-world development environments.

• Understands and applies best practices for general web and Salesforce-specific security concerns.

• Can design and implement complex sharing models using declarative and programmatic methods.

• Can design and implement a test plan that ensures adequate quality (for example; code coverage, application behaviors, scalability, environment independence, security) across application components.

• Be flexible with timings to work with offshore team.

Skills Required:  

• One or more current Salesforce certifications (Administrator/Advanced Administrator, Platform Developer 1 or 2, App Builder, Sales/Service/Community Cloud) is highly preferred   

• Knowledge of Salesforce Architecture principles and best practices   

• Knowledge of Salesforce Best Practices using Lightning Web Components, Apex and Visualforce   

• Knowledge of Salesforce Integration Patterns   

• Knowledge of Salesforce release and environment management  

• Range of project experience in a hands-on technical leadership position         

• Experience with Salesforce in a development or configuration capacity

• Experience with agile / scrum and waterfall development methodologies   

What else we need from you

• Innovate, coming up with creative, robust and quality solutions to customer problems.

• Communicate to a wide range of people through email, showcases, presentations, meetings and workshops. 

• A relentless passion for client success.

• Commercial acumen, both about the client's business goals and Accenture's obligations.

• Robust analysis and design skills equal to your speciality

• A collaborative spirit.

• A passion for Salesforce, its ecosystem, technology and ethos.

• Ethical behaviour, on every level, with an equal commitment to equality and diversity.

• Relevant experience (see below) and relevant Salesforce certifications or Trailhead badges.

A note about experience.
We do not need a specific number of years of experience. We hire a broad range of experience levels and offer positions that correspond to our assessment of your capabilities through the interview process and the market relevance of your skillset. We value industry experience, deep technical excellence and, more of all, a demonstrated ability to influence outcomes.

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About Accenture

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