Company: Navistar Corporation

Navistar Corporation Posted: 02-19-2020

02-19-2020 Lisle, Illinois - IL United States

Salesforce Technical Lead – cloud technology

Long term Contractor role – 12 months plus

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science and 5 plus years of related experience

Located within commuting distance of Lisle, IL (work must be done onsite)

MS in Computer Science, or BS in Computer Science and 8 years applicable experience

Navistar, Inc is a truck manufacturing company pursuing several digital transformation efforts to support aggressive business goals and improve customer experience.

The Salesforce Technical Lead will serve as the technical lead on Salesforce projects delivering enterprise cloud technology solutions.

Responsibilities

Develop customized solutions within the Salesforce platform to support critical business functions and meet project objectives, client requirements and company goals

Lead the Salesforce Development Team in the design and development of Salesforce custom solutions comprising of work in Apex, Visual Force, Salesforce APIs, Lightning, and data migration.

Oversees the development work of junior developers and ensures the use of best practices in all development efforts.

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 analyze project objectives and capability requirements, including specifications for user interfaces, customized applications and interactions with internal Salesforce instances

Assist the Support Team with escalated issues arising from support of internal and customer-facing Salesforce environment, especially related to customized applications, user permissions, security settings, custom objects and workflow

Collaborate with various internal departments, including marketing, sales, and operations, to ensure Salesforce environment supports internal needs relating to functionality and performance

Facilitate solution design sessions and code reviews, advocate Salesforce best practices, and recommend alternate approaches.

Provide estimates of work effort for new projects and enhancements. Design, code, and test solutions. Analyze and mitigate issues identified during testing.

Follow an iterative software development methodology and contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle and support.

Facilitate and actively participate in meetings with representatives from business and/or IT units.

Take accountability for quality of deliverables, provide status on development effort, and deliver on time and as per specifications.

Manage Salesforce release activities.

Technical Skills

Proficient with Apex, VisualForce, Lightning, Java, and JavaScript

Proficient with Object Oriented Programming methodology and Salesforce best practices

Experience with Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Pardot, Partner Communities, and Service Cloud preferred

Previous experience with JIRA, DX and TFS a plus

Qualifications

Self-motivated and creative

Highly detail oriented, accurate, and organized

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Proven ability to handle complexity

Additional Requirements

Qualified candidates, excluding current Navistar employees, must be legally authorized on an unrestricted basis (US Citizen, Legal Permanent Resident, Refugee or Asylee) to be employed in the United States. Navistar does not anticipate providing employment related work sponsorship for this position (e.g., H-1B status)

Company Overview

Navistar is a manufacturer of commercial trucks, buses, defense vehicles and engines. Wherever ingenuity drives global markets, you'll find us taking the lead. We believe the world is propelled forward by new ideas, brave inventors and bold thinkers. That's why we're driven to deliver a better future with strong products, sound values and solutions for a changing world.

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Visit us at www.Navistar.com to discover more about our organization

Navistar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.