About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

automotiveMastermind is seeking a detail-oriented, hands-on Salesforce Developer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will manage day-to-day Salesforce development and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable solutions, optimize business processes, and our customer-facing operations run seamlessly. This position is critical to maintaining system integrity while driving enhancements that improve efficiency and user experience.

Ideal Candidate:
Our Salesforce environment is central to the company’s mission-critical operations. The ideal candidate is a strategic problem solver who thrives on designing solutions for complex business challenges while enhancing overall user experience. This individual combines independence with collaboration – working closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, propose solutions, research best practices, create user-guide content, and conduct thorough testing. A passion for precision, adaptability, and teamwork is essential to succeed in this role.

What you will do:

• Design, architect and develop custom solutions and limitations within Salesforce (Apex/ Visualforce/ Lightning Framework front end web technologies, API, and Workflow) and integrations with back-office systems (often utilizing middleware tools) and complex data migrations

• Leverage integrations and middleware tools to solve complex requests/problems

• Manage project deployments including release and environment management

• Configure and maintain declarative Salesforce capabilities on various standard objects: objects: Leads, Accounts, Contacts, Opportunities, Case, Campaigns, Product, and Reports & Dashboards.

• Create Custom Objects, Custom fields, Standard fields, Formula fields, and Page layouts, Custom Tabs, Standard Tabs, Reports, Dashboard, Workflow, Process Builder and Email Templates.

• Replace Process Builders and Work-Flow-Rules with streamlined Apex code

• Design page layouts, contacts, leads account, business knowledge and customization experience with object page layouts and profile-based layout assignment.

• Create Work and Approval Flows and data models.

• Create Junction Objects to maintain one-to-many relationships

• Maintain Sales Cloud and Service Cloud such as Knowledge, Case Management, and Solution.

• Implement OWD, Profile, Role Hierarchy, Sharing rules, permission sets, Field level Security, and Record-level Security.

• Verify and regression test new and existing functionality before the release to users.

• Participate in daily scrum meetings to report progress and obstacles.

• Work with senior members of the team to identify system needs, gather requirements, assist with prioritization and delivery (training and documentation).

• Draft runbook and cookbook documentation to assist operations teams with maintaining and triaging newly-developed applications or integrations.

• Manage applicable phases of systems implementations (e.g. configuration, customization, integration, data migration).

• Participate in software specification, gap analysis, and requirements analysis.

• Follow and work within project work plans and timelines to meet changing needs and requirements.

• Develop and refine proofs-of-concept to confirm requirements.

• Testing, including defining/supporting user acceptance testing (UAT) and gathering feedback from pre-release testers.

• Log, track, and manage issues, bugs, and enhancement/ features requests logged in JIRA.

• Stay current with cutting edge tools/technologies that could enhance the platform and to collaborate with the Salesforce Admin team to ensure alignment in process, documentation and associated training

Who you are:

• Minimum of 4 years Salesforce administration experience

• Minimum of 6 years Salesforce development experience

• Salesforce Administrator Certification required

• Certified Platform Developer 1 required

• Extensive experience with Apex with experience developing custom Apex Classes and Apex Triggers.

• Extensive experience with Salesforce Query and Search Language (SoQL and SoSL).

• Firm understanding of Salesforce Governor limits, limit monitoring, and best-practices for limit-informed development.

• Experience developing Visualforce pages, Visualforce components and Customer Controllers.

• Understanding of UX and UI design principles. An eye for intuitive user interfaces.

• Experience with database models and querying languages (e.g., SQL, HQL).