Position: Salesforce Technical Consulant
Datacom Location: Wellington
Security Requirements: Citizens and Residents of New Zealand only
Full Time, Permanent, Hybrid Position.
About Us
At Datacom, we combine technology, expertise, and talented people to help organisations thrive in a rapidly changing world. As one of Australasia's leading technology providers, we work with customers across industries to solve real-world problems and deliver meaningful outcomes.
Whether we're supporting governments, enterprise organisations, or growing businesses, we're committed to creating meaningful outcomes for our customers, communities, and each other.
About the Role
As a Technical Consultant - Salesforce, you will provide technical leadership across Salesforce platform delivery, solution design, integration, automation, and operational excellence. Working closely with customers, project teams, and business stakeholders, you will design, develop, and optimise Salesforce solutions that help organisations achieve their strategic objectives. This role combines hands-on Salesforce expertise with leadership, consulting, and solution architecture responsibilities, ensuring platforms remain secure, scalable, and aligned to business needs while supporting long-term digital transformation outcomes.
Our offices are based in Wellington. We like to bring people together in person when we can, but we are mindful of the benefits of working from home for work/life balance. We therefore leave it to you and the team you join to figure out what works best!
What You’ll Do
At the moment, as Technical Consultant - Salesforce you will be focused on:
- Leading the design, development, configuration, testing, and deployment of Salesforce solutions across complex customer environments.
- Providing technical leadership and guidance across Salesforce platform capabilities, custom development, integrations, and automation.
- Collaborating with customers, project managers, business analysts, and stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Producing technical designs, architecture recommendations, and implementation plans aligned with best practice.
- Designing and delivering integrations between Salesforce and enterprise applications using APIs and integration platforms.
- Supporting operational excellence through platform optimisation, performance tuning, and ongoing enhancements.
- Contributing to solution governance, technical standards, and future Salesforce platform roadmaps.
- Providing expert advice on Salesforce capabilities, emerging technologies, and innovation opportunities.
- Mentoring team members and supporting the resolution of complex technical challenges.
- Promoting security, compliance, data integrity, and platform governance best practices.
- Ensuring adherence to Datacom health and safety policies and procedures.
We are a pretty agile company, and are keen to respond to customer, technology and internal stakeholders’ changing requirements and this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs.
Requirements
What You’ll Bring
Required experience:
- 3+ years of Salesforce consulting, development, or technical delivery experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and platform capabilities.
- Proven experience delivering complex Salesforce implementations and enhancements.
- Experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows, and Salesforce integrations.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture, security models, and data management.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise applications and third-party platforms.
- Technical leadership experience within complex customer environments.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Strong customer relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, planning, and documentation skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
Nice to have:
- Salesforce Platform Developer I or II certification.
- Salesforce Administrator or Advanced Administrator certification.
- Salesforce Application Architect or System Architect certification.
- Experience with MuleSoft or other integration platforms.
- Experience delivering Salesforce solutions within enterprise or government environments.
- Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines within Salesforce ecosystems.
- Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies.
- Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, or Data Cloud.
- Strong mentoring and people leadership experience.
Benefits
Culture and Benefits
Join a team where you'll be supported to grow your career, prioritise your wellbeing, and make a genuine impact. From industry-leading learning and development opportunities to parental leave, wellbeing support, and employee benefits, we're committed to helping our people thrive both professionally and personally.
We're passionate about creating a workplace where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to do their best work. Whether you're developing new skills, tackling complex challenges, or collaborating with some of the best minds in the industry, you'll be part of a team that values curiosity, innovation, inclusion, and making a genuine difference.
Why you will love working here:
- Paid parental leave
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (DataCare)
- Ongoing learning, certifications, and career development opportunities
- Access to industry-leading learning platforms and future skills training
- Recognition programmes that celebrate great work
- Great employee discounts and financial wellbeing benefits
- Meaningful work that makes a real impact
Eligibility criteria and conditions may apply to some benefits.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of Salesforce consulting, development, or technical delivery experience
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and platform capabilities
- Experience delivering complex Salesforce implementations and enhancements
- Experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, and Salesforce integrations
- Understanding of Salesforce architecture, security models, and data management
- Experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise applications and third-party platforms
- Technical leadership experience within complex customer environments
- Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Customer relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills
- Communication, presentation, planning, and documentation skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience
- Salesforce Platform Developer I or II certification
- Salesforce Administrator or Advanced Administrator certification
- Salesforce Application Architect or System Architect certification
- Experience with MuleSoft or other integration platforms
- Experience delivering Salesforce solutions within enterprise or government environments
- Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines within Salesforce ecosystems
- Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies
- Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, or Data Cloud
- Mentoring and people leadership experience
Datacom Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Datacom and has not been reviewed or approved by Datacom.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare support includes complimentary health insurance packages in Australia and New Zealand alongside employee assistance programs. Wellbeing resources and on‑site meditation rooms are highlighted as part of the offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Flexible and remote work support, plus discounts on gyms, travel, and selected retailers, are prominently featured. The package emphasizes work–life balance and lifestyle support alongside core benefits.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible working is promoted across locations, with hybrid/remote arrangements positioned as standard practice where feasible. Benefits are framed as locally tailored by country and business unit, reflecting adaptability to context.
Datacom Insights
What We Do
Datacom is Australasia's largest home-grown tech company. Drawing on the experience of over 6500 staff in 24 locations around the globe, we work with a full range of clients, from small start-ups through to government agencies and multinational corporations, to explore and extract the hidden value in their systems. We bring together over half a century of know-how, the right technology and the knowledge and creativity of our people, to deliver sustainable solutions to our customers’ greatest challenges. With our team of dedicated professionals, we work with leading partners to deliver the solutions that are right for our customers – that solve their issues and enhances their businesses. We design, build and run IT systems and processes across operations, cybersecurity, cloud, digital platforms, payroll and enterprise applications. We deliver customer care services and operate mission-critical infrastructure with best-in-class data centre facilities – Datacom delivers on the promise: practical imagination.
