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General Dynamics is a global aerospace and defense company offering products designed to provide safety and security to people around the world. In the past, Ge
Principal Salesforce System Administrator
Location
United States
Posted
108 days ago
Salary
$124.1K - $146.1K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Salesforce System Administrator
General Dynamics
• 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. • work alongside other developers, system administrators, and solution/technical architects in the G&O team (part of the Business Solutions Group, OCIO). • collaborate with other engineers and developers on different layers of the infrastructure. • attend/lead team stand up meetings • maintain Salesforce Sys Admin certifications • pursue additional certifications such as Salesforce Platform App Builder • 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 • provide 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 • 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.
Job Requirements
- 8 + years of related experience
- Certified Salesforce Administrator required
- 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
- 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
- Experience with any of the project delivery tools: JIRA, Confluence, Agile Accelerator, MS Project 2016, MS SharePoint, MS Teams, MS Planner
- Experience with QA processes as part of the SDLC; Agile and traditional waterfall
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders and provide consultation on Salesforce solutions
- Experience in administration and development of Salesforce’s Sales Cloud
- Proficiency with Salesforce.com development including modification of standard objects and fields and creation of custom objects and fields
- Knowledgeable in administration setup, e.g., managing users, security controls, and data as well as creating roles, profiles, and reports
- Experience in designing custom objects, custom fields, picklists, page layouts, workflow, approval processes, validation rules, custom tabs, reports, dashboards, and email generation according to application requirements
Benefits
- a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- dental plan options
- a vision plan
- a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
- full flex work weeks where possible
- a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year
- an additional 10 paid holidays per year
- the GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
- short and long-term disability benefits
- life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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