Sr Mgr Salesforce Delivery

AAA-The Auto Club Group

1d•$140,000 - $190,000

About The Position

Position Description Primary Duties and Responsibilities (details of the basic job functions): Responsible for building and managing a Salesforce Center of Excellence, including all aspects of business process, technology, program/project management, change management, and governance. Create and promote strategies that support long term business goals, anticipate tactical needs, and maximize value out of the Salesforce and Force.com platforms. Work across lines of business and executives, business operations and through IT to build and ensure an emotionally engaging customer experience. This role is responsible for managing Demand & Supply of Salesforce solutions, ensuring delivery excellence and instituting processes, methods & controls for effective delivery of Salesforce features, tools and techniques.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree from an Accredited Institution
Salesforce Administrator (ADM 201) Certification Required
7 years’ experience high performance multi-tiered architectures.
7 years’ experience with multiple software development lifecycles
5 year of experience in Salesforce Development including Custom Objects, Large Data Volumes, Performance Tuning, Apex, Triggers, Web Services, Visualforce and Migration Tools
Knowledgeable of Java / J2EE or Object Oriented Solutions
Exposure to Hibernate, Web Services (REST and/or SOAP)
Familiar with web technologies (HTML 5, CSS 3, jQuery, JavaScript)
Exposure to with OO analysis and design experience
Exceptional communication skills; able to clearly communicate with all levels of employees to include executive leadership
Adept to function with new and emerging technologies
Ability to lead and mentor staff

Nice To Haves

Salesforce Developer (Dev 401) Certification
Salesforce Advanced Developer (Dev 501)

Responsibilities

Create overall COE strategy based on business goals and direction, with supporting roadmap accounting for technology trends and regulatory requirements.
Implement COE governance structure in partnership with IT Business partners and business stakeholders including people, processes, tools, dashboards, standards and metrics.
Lead and coordinate all components of Salesforce COE and programs within it: business process & analysis, systems/solutions, testing, change management & training, program/project management, master data, compliance, business operations resources.
Act as key executive leading governance, raising strategic decisions and risks/issues for resolution.
Ensure that effective decisions are made at the lowest level reasonable in the organization. Accountable for executing governance decisions.
Assist and facilitate business stakeholders’ submission and prioritization of ideas to improve customer experience, increase revenue or reduce cost.
Partner with business and IT business partners to create business cases; lead the measurement of value and ROI realized in the course of all Salesforce projects.
Lead the development and continuous improvement of a reusable repository of tools, templates, best practices and methodologies to manage the estimation, implementation and support efforts for solutions being deployed on the Salesforce/Force.com platform.
Proactively work with Salesforce.com team, implementation partners and internal delivery teams to ensure delivery of services Establishment of a documented methodology, including processes, templates, tools and best practices, for Salesforce solution and service offerings.
Creation of various sub-methodologies within the overall delivery framework to accommodate waterfall, Agile and hybrid approaches to project implementations.
Creation of various sub-methodologies within the overall delivery framework to accommodate both Salesforce implementations and the migration of custom applications to the Force.com platform.
Leadership in the creation of a delivery toolset built on the Force.com platform that can be used by all project delivery teams and/or client delivery resources.
Lead the development of training assets that improve global practice capabilities in the area of project/engagement management, as well as overall project delivery excellence.
Develop reusable repository of tools, work objects, best practices, project delivery standards, thought leadership and frameworks for efficient execution of engagements which drive business value.
Maintain knowledge of the Salesforce.com product stack.
Identify risks to COE goals and objectives and create mitigation plans in collaboration with stakeholders.
Ensure relevant and timely communication to stakeholders at all levels.
Ensure optimum performance of group function. Recommend and implement techniques to improve productivity, increase efficiencies, cut costs, take advantage of opportunities, and maintain state-of-the-art practices.
Responsible for all aspects of funding and budget management, including resources, programs, process, and technology.
Lead with a continuous improvement mentality, and provide metrics to show the realization.
Responsible for all aspects of resourcing the Salesforce COE team, including rationalization of skill sets and resources, training, leveraging outsourcing & consulting as appropriate to result in a high performing COE team overall.