Salesforce System Administrator Principal

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Requirements Analysis, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Salesforce System Administrator Principal to be part of a dynamic team delivering the most creative, sophisticated, and challenging applications for our Salesforce platform.  You will be 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. This position will work alongside other developers, system administrators, and solution/technical architects in the G&O team (part of the Business Solutions Group, OCIO). You will be working with other engineers and developers on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Meaningful Work and Personal Impact:

• Administrative
  • Attend/lead team stand up meetings
  • Maintain Salesforce Sys Admin certifications
  • Pursue additional certifications such as Salesforce Platform App Builder
• Support
  • 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
  • Responsible for providing 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.

• Project Delivery
  • 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

What You'll Need to Succeed:

• 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
• Experience: 5+ years of experience
• US Person
• 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
• Ability to be highly productive, both working alone and in close collaboration within a team, able to multi-process and thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes unpredictable, always engaging environment
• Experience with any of the project delivery tools: JIRA, Confluence, Agile Accelerator, MS Project 2016, MS SharePoint, MS Teams, MS Planner
• Take ownership of project work and developing client relationships (should be a confident self-starter)
• Experience with SDLC; Agile or traditional waterfall
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders and provide consultation on Salesforce solutions
• Experience with Java, Python, Java Script, HTML & CSS
• Experience in quantitative data analysis and data modeling
• Experience in designing custom objects, workflow, approval processes, validation rules, creating custom reports & dashboards
• Location is remote

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