Senior Salesforce Developer (AURA/LWC) - 100% Remote - FEDERAL GOV PROGRAM

As a Sr. Salesforce Developer supporting CMS, the team member will be trusted to work on the Salesforce platform and provide IT development in support of Marketplace initiatives. This position is 100% remote with work schedules based on Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) activities on the Marketplace Assister Technical Support (MATS) program.

In 2018, we expanded MATS Salesforce to support CCIIO’s Marketplace Eligibility and Enrollment Group (MEEG); through the MEEG enrollment community, ASD provides centralized issuer management workflows that enable CMS staff, issuers, and contractors to distribute targeted information and reduce manual work in disparate systems. We also provide centralized access to issuer information and plan data in MATS Salesforce in support of the annual qualified health plan (QHP) certification process led by the CCIIO Marketplace Plan Management Group (MPMG).

In 2021, the MATS team began implementing an extended solution to facilitate substantial data collection and monitoring as CCIIO implements the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. Through MATS Salesforce, ASD will support the registration and certification of Independent Dispute Resolution Entities (IDREs), provide a community where CMS staff and IDREs can manage the federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process, and maintain a system of record as the Federal Government receives complaints of violations of surprise billing protections by private health plans and issuers.

In this role, a typical day will include: 

• 75% of this role involves programming, using Apex, Salesforce lightning component (AURA/LWC), JavaScript, and other development languages and tools.
• Developing Lightning components both by writing custom LWC in JavaScript with Aura framework and within the Salesforce Lightning Design System, maintaining fluency with Apex, Salesforce query, and Salesforce Search language (SOQL and SOSL).
• Supporting the Product Owner in gathering requirements by providing solution options and highlighting dependencies with the existing implementation.
• Overseeing the end-to-end architecture of the Salesforce Platform {Salesforce Service Cloud, Experience Cloud (Portals), and Tableau CRM} and integrations.
• Developing and configuring solutions using Salesforce functionality/Lightning Components (AURA and LWC), APEX, Visualforce Pages, SOQL, and SOSL etc.
• Leading the complete development process from requirement analysis to deployment
• Reviewing and providing feedback on technical implementations and documents and ensures that Salesforce best-practices and standards are followed
• Collaborating with junior developers to perform code reviews and provide feedback.
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation including process documentation, naming and commenting conventions and Salesforce policies/procedures.
• Mentoring and providing guidance to the development team members
• Participating in the full application life cycle - design, development, testing, and deployment
• Assisting in identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving defects encountered during various stages of project delivery, including during the deployment and implementation of the solution in production environments
• Collaborating with Solutions Architects, Development Manager, Development Team, Business Analysts, CMS, and other Agile team members to solve complex policy and system integration involving activities across several Salesforce Orgs. 

Education Requirement:

• Possess Valid Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification (please include certification # on resume or in submission notes)

Required Qualifications:  

• 8+ years of hands-on programming/custom coding experience with Salesforce platform, requiring LWC and/or Aura AND Apex.
  • Experience should also include: SLDS, Visualforce, Triggers, Batch classes, SOQL, SOSL and declarative platform tools (Flows, Process builder, Lightning App Builder, etc.) .
• 3+ years of hands-on experience leading implementation of custom solutions on the Salesforce platform in Lightning and have expert level working knowledge on major Salesforce.com technologies, data modeling, integration, and data migration.
• Extensive understanding of Salesforce.com best practices, Architecture, Design, Development, Administration, and security model.
• Working knowledge and experience with complex business systems integration as well as object-oriented design patterns and development. 
• Extensive understanding of Salesforce Service Cloud and Experience Cloud (Communities) development and customization.

Citizenship Requirement:

• Candidate must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years and must be able to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Position requires candidate must be US Citizenship or Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder).

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Salesforce Platform Developer II certification 
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD)/Copado
• Extensive understanding of HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, jQuery and Bootstrap.
• Experience in development of Web Services (SOAP and REST)
• Experience with SFDC specific IDE and version control configurations (Github, BitBucket) for Salesforce development (VS Code, IntelliJ, SFDX) 
• Provide technical assistance and end user troubleshooting for bug fixes, enhancements, and “how-to” assistance 
• Healthcare Service Industry or Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) experience  
• Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint 
• Experience with infrastructure in a cloud environment (AWS preferred) 
• Experience with Agile methodologies and frameworks such as, but not limited to: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban 
• Certified SAFe Agilist, SAFe Practitioner or other Agile certification(s)