Salesforce Administrator (Copado) (Remote)

Job Description:
ThunderYard is looking for a skilled Salesforce Administrator to join our team. The Salesforce Administrator will be responsible for deployments, day-to-day maintenance, and overall system improvements of our Salesforce platform. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Salesforce’s best practices and functionality (including leading release management using Salesforce’s Copado platform), and will be a proactive problem solver, capable of delivering Salesforce solutions to our users.
Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary system administrator for the Salesforce.com environment with several users.
• Handle all basic administrative functions including user account maintenance, reports and dashboards, workflows, and other routine tasks.
• Complete regular internal system audits and prepare for upgrades.
• Manage Salesforce.com data feeds and other integrations.
• Coordinate the evaluation, scope, and completion of new development requests.
• Assist in training new users and grow the Salesforce.com skill set across the organization.
• Maintain data cleanliness and integrity in systems by conducting regular data cleanliness analysis and necessary cleanup tasks.
• Work independently with members of the user community to define and document development requirements.
• Monitor system health and performance, troubleshoot issues, and perform routine maintenance tasks.
• Keep up to date with Salesforce releases, features, and best practices to maximize platform potential.
• Lead the end-to-end release management process utilizing the Copado platform.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute Salesforce releases, including deployment planning, sandbox management, and post-deployment validation.
• Manage and track multiple releases concurrently, ensuring successful and timely delivery.
• Implement Copado best practices for version control, branching, and merging to maintain code quality and integrity.

• Minimum five years of experience as a Salesforce.com administrator.
• Preferred Certified Salesforce.com Administrator (ADM-201), Advanced Administrator (ADM-211 or ADM-301) or equivalent experience.
• Proven ability to design and implement new processes and facilitate user adoption.
• Strong understanding of the Salesforce platform, with the ability to build custom apps and objects, formula fields, workflows, custom views, and other content of intermediate complexity.
• Strong data management abilities.
• Previous experience working in a SCRUM or agile environment preferred.
• Ability to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills.

Vetting:

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client.

ThunderYard Solutions is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We don’t just accept difference – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our community, and our customers. All applicants will be considered for employment without discrimination of race, color, religion, or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status, protected veteran status, family medical history or genetic information.