Own your opportunity to be at the center of GDIT’s business operations. Make an impact by collaborating across functions to make mission success achievable.
Job DescriptionGDIT 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:
AdministrativeAttend/lead team stand up meetingsMaintain Salesforce Sys Admin certificationsPursue additional certifications such as Salesforce Platform App BuilderSupportManage Salesforce User accountsConduct high-volume data export, transformation and load into enterprise applicationsConfigure existing controllers, controller extensions, and triggers across all platforms.Configure reports and dashboardsField and own support tickets from user communityMaintain system and process documentation, such as data structures, integrations, workflows, and account managementDevelopment of best practices including application lifecycle management, integration and application development, deployment, testing (unit and systems), and iterative refinementResponsible for providing hands on assistance to other developers (both junior and senior) on the G&O team for technical issuesLead training for end user and customers of our Salesforce instance.Project DeliveryDesign, create and translate functional requirements into technical requirementsParticipate 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 systemsCreate and execute unit, integration and user acceptance test plans, including use cases and test dataWhat 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 experienceExperience: 8+ years of experienceCertified Salesforce Administrator requiredUS PersonExcellent organizational, time management, and public speaking skillsAbility 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 staffAbility 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 environmentExperience with any of the project delivery tools: JIRA, Confluence, Agile Accelerator, MS Project 2016, MS SharePoint, MS Teams, MS PlannerTake ownership of project work and developing client relationships (should be a confident self-starter)Experience with QA processes as part of the SDLC; Agile and traditional waterfallAbility to communicate with stakeholders and provide consultation on Salesforce solutionsExperience in administration and development of Salesforce’s Sales CloudProficiency with Salesforce.com development including modification of standard objects and fields and creation of custom objects and fieldsKnowledgeable in administration setup, e.g., managing users, security controls, and data as well as creating roles, profiles, and reportsExperience in designing custom objects, custom fields, picklists, page layouts, workflow, approval processes, validation rules, custom tabs, reports, dashboards, and email generation according to application requirementsThis position is hybrid you must be able to go into our Falls Church, VA officeThe following are not required, but preferred:
Management experience or leading a support/delivery teamUnderstanding of application architecture and APIs (for applications like Salesforce, Mulesoft, etc.)Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning development, design, configuration, testing and deployment of Salesforce.com solutionsExperience completing multiple application implementation projects requiring integration to legacy systems using APIs or an integration platform/enterprise service bus.Experience completing application implementation projects requiring configuration, testing, and deployment