Vice President - Engineering - Salesforce Platform - EdTech

Job Description :

- Architect and lead the technical design of applications on the Salesforce platform Help the wider business understand how Salesforce fits into technical landscape

- Manage the technical delivery within the team Lead and drive technical workshops

- Understanding and application of best practices and effective patterns Coach and mentor junior technical team members

- Evangelist of the latest thinking around the platform, technical delivery and devops

- Own development life-cycle and support release management strategy

- Ownership of technical documentation

- Working closely with functional and test leads Contribute to the wider technical landscape by providing technical expertise

Requirements :

- Proven track record leading technical delivery of complex Salesforce solutions

- Be able to effectively communicate technical concepts to drive decision making

- Deep technical platform experience of the Salesforce Lightning platform

- Development experience with Apex, VF and Lightning Components

- At least one advanced technical certification (e.g. domain architect / platform dev)

- Strong grasp of cloud integration patterns and technology options

- Experience of agile delivery and dev-ops principles and tooling

- Data migration from legacy platforms Experience with any of the following would be an advantage

- Wider Salesforce technology (e.g. Marketing Cloud, Heroku, CPQ, Field Service, Financial Services Cloud or Health Cloud) Wider eCommerce & marketing technologies such as Hybris, Commerce Cloud, Adobe, Sitecore Security and identity such as Salesforce Shield and identity management Other languages or frameworks (e.g. Java, Python, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, React etc)

- Integration, messaging or API management platforms such as Mulesoft or Apigee Testing automation frameworks such as Selenium or Provar

- Enterprise Architecture certifications or experience Mobile application design and development (native, web or hybrid) (native, web or hybrid)

Role description :

- As a Salesforce head, you will draw on your skills and experience to assess requirements and architecture in order to design & develop secure, high-performance technical solutions that maximize the potential of the Salesforce platform.

- You will be confident clarifying business needs and working on the design of the solution with the Technical Architect.

- In parallel, you will be adept at guiding and coaching junior developers within the team.

Role Qualifications :

- Candidate having building the end to end salesforce from scratch in a product based company will be an added advantage

- Candidate should have at least minimum two year of experience as a salesforce architect

- Strong hold on designing entire salesforce architecture and managing a big team size for a product based company.