Salesforce Developer

Title: Salesforce Developer

Public Trust: Can take anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks

100% remote

Position Summary: our clientis seeking a Salesforce Developer to join our Salesforce Practice.  Successful candidates will be responsible for and aid in application development on the Salesforce platform. Since much of the work of this role is client-facing, the ability to communicate and collaborate with peers and clients while building consensus is critical for success. Candidate should be a driven individual with excellent communication skills who takes the ownership of their tasks to see them through completion. The candidate should be a team player willing to work in a high-paced environment.

Daily Responsibilities:

• Implement and manage Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environments and tools.  
• Solutioning, Designing and developing business application functionality.
• Perform fit-gap analysis mapping business requirements to Salesforce best practices, capabilities, features.
• Declarative solutioning using Salesforce cloud offering (Service, Sales, and Community)/ AppExchange.
• Utilize best practices to perform operational support, enhancements, and bug fixes as needed to the Salesforce.com platform.
• Support application solution by working with the Development Team.
• Provide technical assistance and end user troubleshooting for bug fixes, enhancements, and “how-to” assistance.
• Design and development of API integrations with external business systems.
• Assess all risks and offer mitigation strategies, communicating impacts to project across multiple channels.
• Being able to work independently with minimal supervision.

Required Skills and Experience:

• BS/BA in a related field (Business Administration/Management, Computer Science, or Software Engineering preferred).
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a developer on an enterprise-level Salesforce program.
• At least one active Salesforce certification (Certified Administrator or higher, including Advanced Administrator or Platform Developer I/II).
• Demonstrated experience resolving technical defects, triaging issues, using Agile development methodologies, and utilizing source control (e.g., Git or Bitbucket) on a Salesforce project.
• In-depth knowledge of Salesforce administration and development, including security, standard and custom objects, Flow, approval processes, email alerts, communication templates, reports/dashboards, Knowledge, Experience Cloud, data management, and sandbox environments.
• Demonstrated experience with advanced front-end and back-end Salesforce development, including Apex, Force.com custom development, triggers, controllers, JavaScript, SOAP and REST APIs, JSON, XML, sObjects, SOQL, SOSL, Chatter API, UI API, outbound messaging, Platform Events, Lightning Web Components, Aura, and Visualforce.
• Demonstrated experience with Salesforce development tooling, including Salesforce CLI/SFDX, Data Loader, and Visual Studio Code with the Salesforce Extension Pack.
• Demonstrated experience developing Section 508-conformant content and testing builds for Section 508 compliance.
• Demonstrated experience defining and driving implementation of release and cutover management concepts, processes, and tools.
• Demonstrated experience automating manual testing, environment setup, and deployment processes using Jenkins, Salesforce Metadata API, Python, Provar, or a similar Selenium-based tool.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience using JIRA or Agile Accelerator
• U.S. Federal Government experience