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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Developer wanted to join our Enterprise Solutions team in South Africa

Our continued drive to expand and provide world class services within the digital marketing arena, has created the need for a Developer specializing in Salesforce Marketing Cloud (Email, Mobile, & Ad Studio), Salesforce Personalization and Data Cloud. The Developer is a senior consultant with solid client facing experience working on complex software projects. In addition to relevant technology domain expertise, this individual must have the necessary writing skills to author complex specification documents, blueprints and proposals. The Developer is the lead for mostly custom engagements and will be responsible for engaging with the client on gathering their business requirements and designing a technical solution. The Developer instills confidence through maturity, expertise and impeccable communications (written and oral) with customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Your duties as a Developer will include, but will not be limited to the following:

Engage with internal team members, technology partners and clients on a wide range of Salesforce Marketing Cloud engagements:
Develop and deliver innovative custom solutions, including solution concepts to key decision makers to address their business issues and needs showing business value
Scripting and Query development
Data mapping and extract strategies
Relational Data / Data Schema
Web Services and API development
Custom Reporting
Custom application development projects
HTML creation for webpages and emails
Webpage builds using jQuery framework
Leverage the native SFMC scripting language (AMPScript) and other scripting languages to deliver highly dynamic and personalized content in both emails and landing pages (AMPScript and XSLT)
Technical lead on client engagements – from scoping the new engagement, to creating the solution and solution design documentation

REQUIREMENTS

Technology & Development

Marketing technology experience (such as marketing data, production, content management, planning, implementation, various channel use - e.g. email, web, mobile etc., CRM, Audience Management and Analytics) in preferably some of the popular technology stacks including Google, Adobe, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Salesforce Data Cloud, Salesforce Personalisation, AWS, Snowflake, etc.
Marketing Functional Experience – in order of importance
Customer data platforms
Personalization
Direct Digital (Mobile, Email, SMS, MMS & Push)
CMS & Content arbitration/automation
Web Analytics
CRM Experience:
Thorough understanding of CRM data models
Thorough understanding of data base marketing
Thorough understanding of Lifecycles (Customer and Product)
Deep experience with SQL and relational databases (MSSQL, MySQL)
Experience with programming languages (.NET, JAVA, PHP, JavaScript)
Web Development experience (HTML, PGP/GPG, CSS, XML, Web Services, etc.)
Ability to lead and effectively manage technical discussions
API Programming experience
HTML for email creation experience and email
Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop experience beneficial
Excellent English skills, both written and verbal
Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment