Bluesky Internship - Developer - Johannesburg

We are BlueSky - Africa's largest Salesforce partner, a leading design-led digital transformation consultancy, and we're looking for great people to work with.

We're on a mission to be the biggest and best (in the eyes of our people, our competitors and our clients) Cloud Consulting company in Africa by 2027, and we need authentic, talented people to help us reach this goal.

With offices in South Africa and Mauritius, our teams are made up of diverse individuals with a variety of backgrounds and cultures, and we promote diversity and creativity in the way we deliver solutions for our clients.

We've got an opportunity for an enthusiastic and action-oriented person to join our team and play a critical role in the development and delivery of elegant and innovative Salesforce solutions in a variety of enterprise clients.

Job Summary: 

PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS ONLY OPEN TO SOUTH AFRICAN CITIZENS

As a Salesforce Systems Integrator and Consulting Summit partner, we help large enterprise clients with their digital transformation on the Salesforce platform. We are looking for a dynamic and tenacious Salesforce Developer to join our multi-talented and multi-national Salesforce team and deliver robust solutions for challenging problems.

Developers thrive on new challenges. And you own it, whether it’s dev, apps, systems or product innovation. It’s a pressurised role, but you’ll take ownership, show initiative, think strategically and juggle multiple projects like a talent show contestant.

This role is responsible for custom development, enhancing and maintaining application software, websites and application databases as well as driving efficiency throughout complex digital projects. It’s a fast and flexible dev team that requires a proactive and responsive approach.

As a part of the BlueSky internship, you will be required to engage with the training provided as well as to take responsibility for your own growth, so that you can develop the skills listed above and below.

The training you receive will help you fast-track your career in Digital Transformation, but the ultimate determination of success will be how quickly you can assimilate the information, become an expert in the tools and systems we use, and how you communicate and problem-solve. 

Job Responsibilities

• Engage with the training provided to upskill in a rapid and meaningful way

• Develop customized solutions within the Salesforce platform for customers to support critical business functions and meet project object requirements and company goals.

• Manage daily support and maintenance of customer Salesforce instances and conduct long-term improvement operations to ensure compatibility with evolving mission requirements.

• Communicate with project managers, clients and other developers to design cohesive project strategies and ensure effective collaboration throughout all phases of development, testing and deployment.

• Interact directly with clients, managers and end users as necessary to analyze project objectives and capability requirements, including specifications for user interfaces, customized applications and interactions with internal Salesforce instances.

• Provide system administration support of internal and customer Salesforce environments, especially related to customized applications, user permissions, security settings, custom objects and workflow.

• Collaborate with various internal teams

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other technology-related field
• Self-motivated and creative
• Optimistic problem-solving
• Ownership and accountability

Beneficial

• Salesforce Developer Certifications

• Experience developing customer-facing user interfaces

• Professional software development experience

Benefits

Market related Cost to Company remuneration. 

Training and upskilling opportunities. 

Our team inspires progress in each other and in our customers through our relentless pursuit of excellence; you will work with leaders who promote learning and personal development. We offer competitive salaries, bonus incentives, benefits, flexible hours, and mentoring.

Our Culture

We want to go far

And we want to go fast

so.....

Are you ready to shoot for the moon?

https //culture.bsky.co.za/