Senior Salesforce Developer (Western Cape)

at  Bluesky

We are BlueSky - Africa’s largest Salesforce partner, and a leading design-led digital transformation consultancy, and we’re looking for great people to work with.
We’re on a mission to be the biggest and best (in the eyes of our people, our competitors and our clients) Cloud Consulting company in Africa by 2027, and we need authentic, talented people to help us reach this goal.
With offices in South Africa and Mauritius, our teams are made up of diverse individuals with a variety of backgrounds and cultures, and we promote diversity and creativity in the way we deliver solutions for our clients.
We’ve got an opportunity for an empathetic, enthusiastic and action-oriented Senior Salesforce Developer to join our team and play a leading role in the development and delivery of elegant and innovative Salesforce solutions in a variety of enterprise clients.

JOB SUMMARY:

As a Salesforce Systems Integrator and Consulting Summit partner, we help large enterprise clients with their digital transformation on the Salesforce platform. We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Salesforce Developer to join our multi-talented and multi-national Salesforce team and deliver robust solutions for challenging problems.
Developers thrive on new challenges. And you own it, whether it’s dev, apps, systems or product innovation. It’s a pressurised role, but you’ll take ownership, show initiative, think strategically and juggle multiple projects like a talent show contestant.
This role is responsible for custom development, enhancing and maintaining application software, websites and application databases as well as driving efficiency throughout complex digital projects. It’s a fast and flexible dev team that requires a proactive and responsive approach.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science
• Minimum work experience: 4 years of professional Salesforce application development
• Self-motivated and creative
• Proficient with Apex, VisualForce, Lightning, SOAP, REST, SOQL,JavaScript and HTML
• 3 completed Salesforce Certifications

• Develop customized solutions within the Salesforce platform for customers to support critical business functions and meet project object requirements and company goals.
• Manage daily support and maintenance of customer Salesforce instances, and conduct long-term improvement operations to ensure compatibility with evolving mission requirements.
• Communicate with project managers, clients and other developers to design cohesive project strategies and ensure effective collaboration throughout all phases of development, testing and deployment.
• Maintain a flexible and proactive work environment to facilitate a quick response to changing project requirements and customer objectives, and innovate ways to meet mission goals successfully.
• Interact directly with clients, managers and end users as necessary to analyse project objectives and capability requirements, including specifications for user interfaces, customized applications and interactions with internal Salesforce instances.
• Provide system administration support of internal and customer Salesforce environments, especially related to customized applications, user permissions, security settings, custom objects and workflow.
• Collaborate with various internal teams to upskill and develop junior team members.