Salesforce Developer

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

To develop, maintain and support Salesforce in CIB Technology by means of Salesforce development and configuration, .NET development with the focus on enhancing and delivering quality end user experiences for internal and external users of the system.
Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

Absa CIB Technology uses the Salesforce Platform to manage essential operations and client interaction, feedback and onboarding across many diverse business areas:

Coverage Banking, Product houses and Markets businesses, Legal for integration to the iManage Legal case management system.  
Compliance, The Client Service Centres, Credit, Marketing Cloud, Cash collections, Digital Partnerships.
 

CIB Technology has a dedicated Salesforce Development team of Full-stack Developers, Data Engineers and Configuration Specialists who work to support the entire CIB business.  We develop custom functionality on top of the existing SF platform and configure Salesforce to meet the very challenging and diverse business needs.  Opportunities exist for ambitious technologists with almost any interest - from Data Architecture, Integration specialisation, or Full-stack Development skills to grow and enhance those skills within the CIB arena.
 

Skills and Experience required:

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application is evident
• 4+ years Salesforce experience
• Salesforce development experience
• Salesforce Qualification(s) - Platform App Builder & Platform Developer I
• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
• Experience in specific coding / scripting languages
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
• Some understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
• Experience / understanding with appropriate unit testing framework(s)
• Affinity for debugging and problem-solving

Key Accountabilities:

• Code and test software and applications in keeping with given design and specifications.
• Use the detailed program design received from the team lead to develop programs that accommodate automated output.
• Implement changes in line with defined standards.
• Adhere to Salesforce default functionality and apply.
• Deployment of software via CI/CD or manual approved processes.
• Engagement with end users to understand requirements, train on new functionality, assist testing process, document all changes made to the PRD environment.
• Utilise Agile Methodology and deliver on user stories as specified in the sprints allocated.
• Technical scheduled maintenance required from all team members, clean data, clean processes, optimise the engineering side of the application.
• Obtain relevant Salesforce qualifications in order to optimally perform.
• Highlight processes that needs to be optimised.
• Team participation in building Salesforce.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Interpret analysis, problem definition & business requirements to identify solution requirements (e.g. features).
• Produce well-organised and documented source code for technical solutions.
• Apply technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience in code development.
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions.
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services.
• Study & apply Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines to all development work.
• Support reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technolog