Global Digital Senior Salesforce Developer (Information Technology)

About Us

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A Brief Overview

The Global Digital Senior Salesforce Developer is a candidate with intensive experience in Salesforce technologies and a proven track record of designing and implementing scalable solutions. This role involves leading development projects, mentoring junior developers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance our Salesforce platform. The Certified Salesforce developer works closely with functional leaders, organizational units, and subject matter experts to identify/improve deployment process and be responsible for executing the day-to-day configuration, support, maintenance, and improvement tasks for our CRM platform.

What you will do

• Development:

• Design, develop, and implement custom applications using Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning Components.
• Lead the development and deployment of new features and functionality within the Salesforce platform.
• Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Integrate Salesforce with other systems using REST and SOAP APIs.• Manage and optimize Salesforce data models, workflows, and validation rules.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior developers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
• Stay up to date with the latest Salesforce features and updates.
• Serve as the advisor for Salesforce projects in review during COE meetings, provide training and guidance to other staff on development guidelines as well as best practices.
• Manage multiple Salesforce orgs for Global Digital team. Manage sandboxes and ensures best practices are followed by development teams while using Salesforce environments.
• Prioritize deliverables and deploy well-tested solutions across Production and Non-production environments.
• Stay up to date with the latest Salesforce releases, features, and industry trends, and provide recommendations on how to upgrade the environments to the latest release.
• Design, develop and maintain complex user roles, security model.
• Contribute to the creation of Salesforce development standards and guidelines.
• Perform mass data imports/exports using the Bulk API or various import tools.
• Design and implement data partitioning and multitenancy strategies to enhance performance as well as provide robust data security
• Actively participates in design and sprint planning sessions, offering relevant solutions and input.
• Supports the Salesforce development lifecycle – aiding developers to build and promote code to Production.
• Troubleshoot and complete complex data and application errors.
• High comfortability with the integration of standard and custom data sources.

• Communication:

• Provide clear and visible communication to all stakeholders.
• Present written recommendations, solutions, and insights to developers, senior leaders and stakeholders, facilitating prioritization and influencing the regional teams.
• High facilitation and collaboration skills

• Collaboration:

• Strong influential skills – must be able to work confidently and effectively with multiple departments and levels within the company.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to developers, ensuring adherence to Salesforce development and coding standards.
• Great team player, be able to work collaboratively with developers across multiple global regions.
• Vision and passion for continuous improvement

• Attitude and Outlook:

• Proactive nature, strong attention to detail, and decision-making skills
• Persistence, resilience, and creativity to overcome obstacles and persevere until projects are delivered.
• Detailed oriented, highly collaborative, and persistent in the face of obstacles or challenges.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) In business, IT or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a Salesforce developer, with a proven track record of managing Salesforce orgs for customers
• 1+ years of experience in Copado or equivalent DevOps tools for Salesforce deployments.
• The ability to code the front-end in line with the UI design
• Strong attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication and data presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and other technical teams
• Ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
• Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I
• Salesforce Certified Administrator
• Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator
• Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Consultant
• Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Jira, MuleSoft, Tableau, Confluence software
• Knowledge of integration with Heroku, AWS and other third-party SaaS platforms

Technical & Functional Skills:

• Must have experience with Salesforce CRM including Sales cloud, Experience cloud, Marketing cloud, Commerce cloud, Data cloud and related products
• Strong knowledge of the Salesforce platform and development tools including Apex, Visualforce, Flow and Lightning
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce object models and relationships
• Strong knowledge of various Salesforce governor limits and best practices
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce integration best practices
• Expert knowledge of Salesforce security best practices and management of roles, profiles, data sharing rules, shield etc.,
• Ability to automate deployment of Salesforce code/configuration changes to higher environments by using GIT and CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to review and understand the downstream impacts of a change request and anticipate opportunities to improve it
• Ability to proactively identify problems and prepare solutions for resolution

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Systems Software Development