Salesforce Lead Consultant - #189
Bullhorn is the leading global software provider for the staffing and recruitment industry. More than 10,000 companies rely on Bullhorn’s cloud-based platform to power their staffing processes from start to finish. Through our incredible products and services, we create raving fan customers, resulting in company growth that consistently offers new opportunities for our talent to advance their careers. 35% of our global workforce gets promoted or moves into a new role every year, expanding their skills and working with new people. Bullhorn is large enough to provide these exciting opportunities but small enough to maintain the energy of a startup, and we’re consistently ranked as a great place to work for our strong culture and rewarding career opportunities.
Our commitment to our employees: Every Bullhorn employee has a sense of belonging, a voice that is heard, and a clear path to success. Bullhorn offers unlimited planned vacation, great opportunities for career development, quarterly paid volunteer days through its philanthropic group Bullhorn Cares, and an open invitation to Bullhorn Allies groups, which celebrate and cultivate diversity and inclusion for all employees.
Our in-office and hybrid employees enjoy a casual, collaborative environment with in-office perks and quarterly social events. While working from the comfort of their own homes, our remote employees are provided a full equipment package with all the tools they need to perform their role. We use Zoom, Slack, and other tools to stay connected while we are remote.
As a Lead Consultant at Bullhorn, you will serve as trusted technical advisor to our largest customers leveraging our Salesforce products. You will work closely with our Professional Services team members, product managers, UX designers, and developers to guide the evolution of our software and how it delivers value for our customers. You will serve as a key technical bridge -- understanding client requirements and collaborating closely with internal stakeholders to craft enhancements that meet our customers’ needs and advance our product. You’ll be helping the team create a customer-centered vision for our software and work closely with customers and development teams to make that vision a reality. You will help identify, research, and design new solutions to define complex features, breakthrough scalability and performance bottlenecks, and help improve system health.
Why this job is important
Lead Consultants help ensure that our software, as used by our customers (including customizations and integrations), adheres to best practices for Salesforce.com and our delivered solutions.
Lead Consultants collaborate with our customers to define practical solutions and best practices and guide the team towards them.
Lead Consultants also serve as resources to our engineering teams to recognize better patterns and see the bigger picture.
As a Consulting Architect, a typical day might include:
Engage in technical deep dives with a customer on elements of application architecture, resource consumption, and management of customizations at scale
Collaborating with product managers, UX designers, and engineers to design creative features to advance our platform.
Identifying solutions to technical team impediments, and finding ways to make our development practice better.
Collaborating with other Consultants to define architectural principles, patterns, and best practices.
This job might be for you if:
You’ve earned a Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
You have 5+ years of experience designing and building software for scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
You are comfortable with Salesforce.com Apex and Salesforce.com Lightning You understand the nuances and challenges of building Salesforce.com integrated web applications.
You have obsessed over use of Sharing rules, coping with Salesforce limits, synchronizing data to other systems, and integrating with off-platform services.
You’re comfortable engaging in technical sparring sessions with customer and partner technical teams.
You’re a tech guru with a passion for continuous improvement who’s excited by finding better designs for software and data.
Bonus points for:
You have strong experience building Software as a Service (SaaS) products
Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs
Expertise in application containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
Experience with performance monitoring and diagnostic tools (ELK, StatsD, etc.)
Knowledge in designing database models for transactional and distributed databases
Expertise in tuning applications and data models for performance
Understanding of event-driven architectures and best practices
Bullhorn is committed to our core values and we are looking for people who exhibit these traits:
- Service - You go beneath the surface to solve problems.
- Energy - You build up your teammates and leave people positively charged.
- Ownership - You take action and own up to your mistakes.
- Speed & Agility - You go around obstacles and demonstrate urgency.
- Being Human - You consider other people's perspectives, laugh, and have fun.
Bullhorn is fully committed to equal opportunities. We aim to create a working environment free from discrimination. This means all job applicants and employees will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, race, religion, or belief, gender or sexual orientation.