Salesforce Functional Lead    Contract to Hire      Remote  

Our client is relatively new to Salesforce.  They have 2 developers in place and also need a Functional Lead.

At least one person, a Business Analyst, will report to this position, so you should have prior reporting responsibility.

Responsible for leading functional requirements gathering activities and translating them into user stories.

Lead the build and maintain world- class Salesforce.com solutions using best practices in utilizing Salesforce platform, lightning apps and components, custom apps, changes to core apps, AppExchange Apps, approvals, workflows, product configurators etc., for sales and service clouds and partner community.

Serves as the supervisor of one or more Salesforce Business Analysts working on medium to large projects. Acts as primary liaison between business customers, systems development teams and implementation partners and vendors.

Assists management in identifying project objectives, validating detailed business/technical requirements and evaluating alternatives.

Duties to include:

• • Understand how a specific business operates today in terms of how they support customers, what their operations are, and what technology and data the business uses currently
• • Work with the business to define the challenges they are facing, and gather functional requirements needed to solve the challenges. This could include completing interviews with functional users and developing business process maps
• • Facilitate workshops with business to identify goal end state, and generate ideas that will advance the business through technology
  • • Walkthrough Salesforce platform capabilities that are aligned to solving the business capabilities requested
    • • Conceptualize what can be a minimally viable product (MVP) that can be used for quick testing and confirmation before further development
  • • Convert functional requirements into user stories that explain the business need and goal state
  • • Work with Development teams to confirm and explain user stories and functional requirements
  • • Work with Development teams to ensure correct configuration that resolves the business challenge
  • • Coordinate testing and approvals including defining who will complete testing, timelines, and sign-off requirements
  • • Develop reports on progress (i.e., challenges, open items, completed work) using program management software
  • • Conduct planning sessions with project leadership to inform on current state of program

• Participate in daily scrum meetings

Contract to Hire role, excellent benefits and salary upon hire

About Jones Grove

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