Salesforce Consultant
Department: Capability Leadership
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Chicago
Description
About This Position
If you are someone who has a passion for solving complex and critical technology and business problems through the optimal use of the Salesforce platform, enjoys working closely with a collaborative team and for clients of varying industries and sizes, the Salesforce consultant role at Kenway Consulting is right for you. As a Salesforce Consultant, you will help design, configure, code, test, implement, enhance and support clients on their Salesforce platform.
In addition to being responsible for developing high-performing solutions on the Salesforce platform, this resource will be able to provide advanced business analysis functions, conduct needs assessments, configure apps as required, and assist in other key functions involving client and staff development, training, and ongoing client support.
Core Traits We Are Seeking
- Entrepreneurship: Passion to fuel growth by helping clients, peers, the organization, and yourself with a continuous hunger to learn
- Tenacity: Ability to drive through ambiguity
- Executive Presence: Clear, concise, and articulate when using written and verbal channels.
- Communication: Adept at communicating quickly and effectively, whether the message is good or bad
- Aptitude: You climb steep learning curves quickly
- Integrity: Comfortable doing what is right for the project, even when doing so may not be the most favorable path forward
- Growth Mindset: Proactively develop core skills independently and with the help of others
Key Responsibilities
- Implement custom Salesforce solutions that adhere to platform best practices
- Execute custom Salesforce platform development (Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Components), integrations with back-office systems (often using middleware tools) and complex data migrations
- Own and execute complex Salesforce configuration and customization centric scope to support process automation
- Build and extend the Salesforce platform using process builder, flows, and workflow rules
- Assist in documenting and validating application code against unit tests, security tests, and profiling tools
- Assist in identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving defects encountered during different stages of project delivery
- Support processes promoting data integrity, data governance and compliance
- With project leadership, assist in the estimation of work effort and set a realistic schedule for development
- Mentor junior employees and teach clients the basics of Salesforce development and usage
Qualifications, Skills & Credentials
Basic Qualifications
- Preferred bachelor's degree with technical focus, but other degrees will be considered with applicable experience
- A minimum of 1-year experience with technical customization on the Salesforce platform, which should include: Lightning Components using the Lightning Design System framework, Apex, Apex data loader, and declarative platform tools (I.e., Process Builder, Visual Workflow, Lightning App Builder, etc.)
- Minimum of 1-year experience in one of the following specialty clouds: Marketing Cloud, Health Cloud, Financial Service Cloud, CPQ, or Data Cloud
Preferred Skills
- Experience with common JavaScript frameworks, such as Angular JS, React, etc.
- Experience developing for Salesforce Communities (I.e., Experience Cloud) and Lightning App Builder
- Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment and be a creative technical leader within a team
- Knowledge of Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS, iPaaS) and Salesforce, either through work with industry participants or consulting to the industry
- Experience with Einstein, Marketing Cloud, and Tableau Analytics is preferred
- A minimum of 1-year experience with programming Languages - APEX, Visualforce
- Experience with VS Code, Eclipse, GitHub, CI/CD is preferred
Preferred Salesforce Credentials
- Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification
- Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification
- Salesforce Lightning Component Framework Specialist (Trailhead Super Badge)
- Salesforce Lightning Experience Specialist (Trailhead Super Badge)
Experience is not needed across everything as Kenway is able to offer training, help and guidance to build additional skills.
What our Company looks like
Kenway Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm whose entire reason for existence is to help companies and their employees. Founded in 2004 on the principles of being good and being truthful, Kenway's set of Guiding Principles steer each employee's decision-making process and center on integrity, quality, value and respect. The company focuses on the means and not the outcomes, always in line with these Guiding Principles, and always with integrity as its cornerstone. Kenway strives to provide all clients with unmatched quality and service, and specializes in the areas of Technology Solution Delivery, Enterprise Program Leadership, and Information Insight.
You will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with our world-class clients. Our projects tend to focus primarily on enterprise solutions, straddling our clients' technology and business organizations. Most of these engagements require a diverse combination of skills and experience.
At Kenway, we address our clients' needs by identifying the services and solutions that are required to solve their business challenges. We then provide the appropriate mix of resources to build the optimal project team for each engagement. This approach not only allows us to take on projects ranging in size and complexity, but it also allows us to adjust capacity and skill sets as the project evolves, or as clients need change. Ultimately, our goal is to provide the highest possible quality for the lowest possible cost.
What we offer our Employees
- The ability to chart your individual career path based on your expertise and passions
- An environment that encourages you to identify new opportunities and the support to make it happen
- An emphasis on quality of life that is highly accommodating and unparalleled in the industry, with no mandatory travel for client work
- The opportunity to build and be part of a fun and collaborative organization with teams that are passionate about their clients
- Culture-driven employees who work together to identify clients, technologies, and people in support of Kenway's ambitious growth targets
- Leadership opportunities early and often in your career, no matter your tenure
- Participation in internal operations, giving you a chance to help in your area of interest - such as Marketing, Human Resources, Sales or Technology - and make a real impact
- Exceptional benefits and an above-market compensation package, including unlimited PTO, quarterly and annual bonuses, and a SEP-IRA to which we contribute 25% of every employee's total compensation
Our clients have increasingly returned to their physical locations post COVID. The expectation is that Kenway Consultants will need to live/work in the Chicagoland area.