Salesforce Developer

Job Description

Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system at UChicago Medicine as a Salesforce Developer. This is a hybrid opportunity, and you will be required to come on-site to our Burr Ridge and Darien locations as needed.     

  

The Salesforce Developer supports a work stream in a complex Academic Medical Center environment and will execute key deliverables to achieve the project and ongoing enterprise vision. The developer is a hands-on Salesforce engineer with deep technical expertise and strong interpersonal skills. The developer will work closely with the business to design, develop, and deploy. You will be part of a team that is driving digital transformation at a leading Academic Medical Center in a greenfield environment. This is a unique opportunity to join the UCM team and create unique solutions in the provider technology landscape that will significantly increase patient access to world class healthcare. 

  

Essential Job Functions 

• Lead technical design; architect and document technical solutions aligned with key business objectives; help identify gaps between current and desired states  

• Develop solutions within the Salesforce platform to support critical business functions and meet business objectives using both configuration and development 

• Leverage Salesforce's out-of-the box functionality and identify appropriate opportunities to customize. Collaborate with other product teams to integrate data and functionality to advance the organization's strategic direction 

• Participate in the full software development life cycle: technical design, development, testing, deployment, and production solution 

• Understand and use Salesforce APIs to integrate with external systems and data 

• Participate in new initiatives/projects discussions with business and develop technical solutions based on discussions 

• Actively engage with technical, product, and business teams. Collaborate with appropriate technology partners to implement enhancements and improvements that solve business problems 

• Manage the daily support and maintenance of an internal Salesforce instance and conduct long-term improvements to operations 

• Provide system administration support for the Salesforce environment, especially related to customized applications, user permissions, security settings, custom objects, and workflow 

• Assist business users as needed during UAT, troubleshooting and resolving implementation and integration issues 

• Own technical and functional specifications, maintain documentation  

• Establish and maintain best practice standards on documentation and code structures 

• Respond to application issues 

• Track and manage tickets 

• Engage with IT Leadership on managing any managed services agreements  

• Escalate when necessary 

 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree 

• 5-10 years of related software development experience 

• Strong practical deployment knowledge of Salesforce configurations 

• 5+ years’ experience working with an RDBMS such as MySQL, Oracle, or MS SQL Server  

• 5+ years’ experience with HTML, XML, CSS and JavaScript  

• 2+ years’ experience with SOAP APIs, REST APIs and integration techniques 

• 2+ years’ experience in Salesforce Lightning, APEX programming, LWC, APIs, and SOQL 

• Familiarity with security standards such as TLS, SSL, SSO and data encryption Hands-on experience with customization (Apex Triggers, Classes & Visual Force), configuration (Formulas, Workflows, Approval processes, Custom objects and fields, Sharing Rules, Page layouts, Record types, Permission Sets, Reports and Dashboards) 

• Experience in developing integrating solutions using MS Tools, Salesforce.com APIs, and 3rd party APIs 

• Proficient in working with MS SQL databases 

 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Platform Developer I or II, and/or Administrator certification  

• Health Cloud implementation & development experience is desirable 

 

Position Details 

• Job Type/FTE: Full-Time 

• Shift: Days  

• Job Location: Flexible (Darien and Burr Ridge)

• Unit/Department: IT Enterprise Architecture 

• CBA Code: Non-Union 

 

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