Salesforce Jobs

Yes! From entry level Salesforce associate jobs all the way up to Salesforce director and architect roles, creating a career around Salesforce is an excellent decision with lots of areas to explore and potentially specialize. Additionally, due to Salesforce’s status as an industry standard CRM, a skilled developer has their pick of a plethora of industries and organizations looking for Salesforce experience. Since Salesforce developer jobs also command high salaries from the outset, these jobs can make for wonderful career moves.

Since Salesforce is now so baked into the digital business landscape, there are many different roles as part of Salesforce development. The makeup of each team differs from organization to organization, but on many strong teams of Salesforce developers, you may find some of the following SMEs:

• Salesforce Admin – Usually a Salesforce SME in their own right, this individual creates automation in Salesforce targeting key business processes, ensures the company’s Salesforce ecosystem is efficient and error-free, and constructs any custom functionalities needed to achieve either goal.
• Salesforce Scrum Master – If you’ve worked in agile environments before, this title might look familiar! Salesforce Scrum Masters lead Salesforce project teams and make sure that key development resources are plentiful. Providing updates and instruction via daily stand-ups, they also use this time to clear obstacles that may block future progress.
• Salesforce Solution Architect – These highly skilled professionals are responsible for custom solution design and creation using Salesforce’s products and ecosystem, typically to address an identified business need or problem. A Salesforce Solution Architect generally possesses multiple Salesforce and development related credentials, exceptional programming abilities, and fantastic communication/delegation skills.

Salesforce engineer jobs are very technical positions where the majority of time is spent working directly with Salesforce (and other relevant organizational systems built on top of the Salesforce platform). These experts tend to have a highly inquisitive, curious nature, and they naturally gravitate towards tech and other complex fields. Below are a few of the basic job responsibilities typically assigned to Salesforce engineers:

• Create features for and make updates to a company’s Salesforce software applications
• Maintain and monitor the organization’s Salesforce database
• Troubleshoot issues and provide support to other departments using Salesforce
• Work effectively as a team to share information and document company processes

Salesforce business analysts help organizations make the most of their Salesforce software and solution configuration. While these professionals are still expected to perform very technical tasks, this role is not an application development heavy position — analysts primarily use their considerable Salesforce experience to provide data storytelling, reports, and recommendations to their clients. Below are a few of the basic qualifications needed to become a Salesforce business analyst:

• A bachelor’s or master’s level degree in computer science or a related (STEM) discipline
• Professional experience working with Salesforce
• Strong analytical, logical, and qualitative reasoning skills
• Knowledge of SQL and database management
• Teamwork-centric soft skills (e.g., communication and collaboration)

Salesforce is used in hundreds of thousands of organizations across the globe, so no matter what type of Salesforce position appeals to you, there’s always another industry with new programming challenges waiting to be discovered. Some of the most popular modern industries with many Salesforce job openings include:

• Retail and eCommerce
• Healthcare
• Financial Services
• Manufacturing
• Professional Services