Senior Salesforce Developer Higher Education Systems

POSITION SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for analysis, design, development, and implementation of enterprise system integrations and development work. An ideal candidate will be a software developer who is capable of performing a wide range of software lifecycle tasks including design, coding, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and user support within the organization s existing Salesforce environment.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and develop applications, Flows, APIs, reports, dashboards, screen layout, and integrations in the existing Salesforce environment.
• • Perform analysis to ensure business functionality, data security, application design, and optimal performance requirements are satisfied.
  • Collaborate with project teams to estimate work effort and/or time requirements to complete development of specific requirements
  • Develop and execute software testing plans to support migrations and implementation of changes to existing applications and infrastructure systems
  • Create and maintain documentation as appropriate for code, applications, and processes
  • Work with project teams to create estimates of work effort and/or time required to complete development of specific requirements
  • Prepare required software installation instructions and documentation
  • Manage migration of data and applications to new systems and platforms, verifying all data is migrated properly and applications are properly initialized prior to implementation
  • Creating complex reports, interfaces, enhancing applications and performing quality control of new applications / processes

  REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor s degree in Information Systems or related field or equivalent work experience.
  • 10 years of development experience.
  • Specific Salesforce development experience
    • 3+ years with Apex development
    • 3+ years with Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
    • Visualforce framework experience
    • Salesforce CLI experience
  • 2+ years of Git experience for code management
  • Knowledge of systems analysis, technical documentation techniques, monitoring tools/techniques, and reporting/analytics techniques.
  • Knowledge of design, development and implementation tools and techniques for integrating enterprise applications, including web services and other integration architectures.

  PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 1+ year of experience with the Educational Data Architecture within Salesforce.
  • 1+ year of experience with Jira or other ticketing systems for project and workload management.
  • Demonstrated knowledge or certification in SQL development such as Oracle DBMS environment.
  • Extensive experience working in enterprise systems in the higher education environment.
  • Experience with Agile processes

  • Top Skills & Years of Experience:

    Salesforce development experience.

    • 3+ years with APEX
    • 3+ years with Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL)
    • 3+ years Visualforce framework experience
    • 3+ years Salesforce CLI experience
    • 3+ years Design experience within Salesforce to develop/build Flows, APIs, reporting, dashboards, screen layouts, and integrations.
    • 3+ years Analytical experience to build solutions that integrate proper data security design, performance optimization, and common standards.
    • 2+ years Git experience in managing code - branch/merging code bases
    • Strong written and verbal skills to communicate with team, stakeholders, and users as needed.

    Nice to have skills:

    • Experience with Salesforce Educational Data Architecture (EDA)
    • Experience working in Jira or an equivalent system to track work assignments and manage workload.
    • SQL development experience in Oracle DBMS, SQL Lite, or general SQL knowledge.
    • Salesforce Marketing Cloud experience.