
Principal Salesforce System Administrator
General Dynamics Information Technology
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $124,093 - $146,050 per year
Job Level
About the role
- responsible for all types of standard development and customizations for applications under the Growth & Operations team’s portfolio, including configuration, unit testing, building applications, and creating and modifying existing applications.
- work alongside other developers, system administrators, and solution/technical architects in the G&O team (part of the Business Solutions Group, OCIO).
- collaborate with other engineers and developers on different layers of the infrastructure.
- attend/lead team stand up meetings
- maintain Salesforce Sys Admin certifications
- pursue additional certifications such as Salesforce Platform App Builder
- manage Salesforce User accounts
- conduct high-volume data export, transformation and load into enterprise applications
- configure existing controllers, controller extensions, and triggers across all platforms.
- configure reports and dashboards
- field and own support tickets from user community
- maintain system and process documentation, such as data structures, integrations, workflows, and account management
- development of best practices including application lifecycle management, integration and application development, deployment, testing (unit and systems), and iterative refinement
- provide hands on assistance to other developers (both junior and senior) on the G&O team for technical issues
- lead training for end user and customers of our Salesforce instance
- design, create and translate functional requirements into technical requirements
- participate in defect review meetings with business team leads as well as implementation lead and prioritize development tasks around project milestones.
- write test scripts and QA reports for data structures and report to the project team.
- configuration of custom applications using Salesforce.com and integrating salesforce.com with other systems
- create and execute unit, integration and user acceptance test plans, including use cases and test data.
Requirements
- 8 + years of related experience
- Certified Salesforce Administrator required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Liberal Arts or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, certifications or work experience
- Excellent organizational, time management, and public speaking skills
- Ability to work independently on complex tasks which require analysis and action.
- Ability to work well with staff members and user community, especially with senior business management staff
- Experience with any of the project delivery tools: JIRA, Confluence, Agile Accelerator, MS Project 2016, MS SharePoint, MS Teams, MS Planner
- Experience with QA processes as part of the SDLC; Agile and traditional waterfall
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders and provide consultation on Salesforce solutions
- Experience in administration and development of Salesforce’s Sales Cloud
- Proficiency with Salesforce.com development including modification of standard objects and fields and creation of custom objects and fields
- Knowledgeable in administration setup, e.g., managing users, security controls, and data as well as creating roles, profiles, and reports
- Experience in designing custom objects, custom fields, picklists, page layouts, workflow, approval processes, validation rules, custom tabs, reports, dashboards, and email generation according to application requirements
Benefits
- a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- dental plan options
- a vision plan
- a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
- full flex work weeks where possible
- a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
- an additional 10 paid holidays per year
- the GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
- short and long-term disability benefits
- life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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Hard Skills & Tools
Salesforce developmentunit testingdata exportdata transformationdata loadapplication lifecycle managementintegration developmentuser acceptance testingconfiguration of custom applicationsmodification of standard objects
Soft Skills
organizational skillstime managementpublic speakingindependent workcollaborationcommunicationconsultationleadershipproblem-solvingtraining
Certifications
Salesforce AdministratorSalesforce Platform App Builder