Senior Technical Consultant
Salesforce is hiring a Senior Technical Consultant in Hyderabad, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Salesforce.
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- Level rates this role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Claude, Copilot and Cursor.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
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About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
Salesforce Technical Consultants deliver solutions that transform our customers' businesses and their customers' experiences. This role involves working with teams to discover, design, code and deploy Salesforce Platform solutions. 75% of this role involves programming, using Apex (Salesforce's Java-like language), JavaScript, and other development languages and tools.
The ideal technical consultant is a demonstrated thought leader in technical aspects of customer and partner engagements that lead to the successful delivery of enterprise desktop, cloud, and/or mobile solutions, including enterprise integrations leveraging middleware tools and platforms. Developers deliver technical solutions to meet the customer's business and technical requirements. Developers lead the evaluation of options and subsequent presentation and education of the customer/partner. They will also identify and proactively manage risk areas, and commit to seeing issues through to complete resolution.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Programming solutions in Salesforce's Apex programming language, JavaScript, Lightning Web Component Framework and JS Frameworks with API integrations to cloud and back-office systems
- Developing, optimizing and deploying Salesforce applications
- Demonstrating key Salesforce capabilities and features
- Learn and use Salesforce's Services team best practices
- Help clients consistently meet/exceed goals and metrics
- Contribute to customer success through front and back-end solution development and release management
- Deliver high customer satisfaction (CSAT)
- Continued professional growth and development
- Travel to client site (average of 50%), but may be higher or lower based on the client engagement
- Champion an AI-first development workflow by utilizing advanced AI developer assistants (e.g., Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate custom Apex, LWC, and integration delivery while maintaining platform governor limit compliance
- Practical fluency using AI coding assistants and modern development ecosystems to maximize daily development velocity, document custom code, and maintain strict platform security standards
You're Our Person If...
- BA/BS degree or foreign equivalent
- 6+ years of relevant experience
- Strong problem solving skills
- Experience using technical skills to solve real-world business problems
- Strong programming skills with JavaScript and one object-oriented language (eg Java, C#, Python)
- Data modeling (objects, fields and relationships; able to model 1:M and M:M relationships)
- Salesforce certifications and Platform development experience are a plus
- Customer engagement/facilitation skills
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to work independently and be a self-starter
- Specializes in gathering and analyzing information and designing comprehensive solutions that are flexible and adaptable to clients' needs
- Cutting edge innovator who continually studies new technologies and functionality, and is involved in projects that push the capabilities of existing technologies
- Strong potential to continue to grow in career to higher levels of Services or other positions at Salesforce
Even Better If...
- Strong presentation skills. Able to effectively present and defend point of view to a variety of audiences
- Prior Salesforce development experience (Apex programming language and Lightning Web Components) highly desired, but not required
- Other highly desired, but not required, technical experience includes: JS Frameworks, SQL, APIs, Testing Tools, DevOps.
- Highly beneficial to have any Salesforce product certifications prior to joining. It is expected that you will gain the following certifications as part of the role requirement and on-boarding process in the first 3 months:Salesforce Certified AdministratorSalesforce Certified Platform App BuilderSalesforce Certified Platform Developer ISalesforce Certified JavaScript Developer I
Attributes
- Leader, who can communicate the value of Cloud features
- Results-driven, tenacious, drive to succeed in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to change
- Positive attitude; ability to motivate others
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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Posting Statement
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that’s inclusive, and free from discrimination. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
How we rate this
Senior Technical Consultant at Salesforce rates 9 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
- Walk me through how you've used Claude in your day-to-day work.
- What are the limits of Copilot that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
- What's a project where you used Cursor hands-on?
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