Associate - Salesforce Developer Engineer

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

As a Salesforce Developer Engineer, you will be in charge of developing, configuring, customizing, and deploying applications on the Salesforce platform to meet complex business requirements. You’ll collaborate with cross-tech teams and business teams to drive the successful delivery of business solutions on the Salesforce platform.  This role demands strong technical expertise, programming, and problem-solving skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Build solutions on the Salesforce Sales Cloud and Experience Cloud platforms as part of a larger Salesforce development team
• Work with team engineer leads, architects, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into technology solutions.
• Ensure applications and components are optimized for performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Develop reusable components on the Salesforce Platform.
• Perform rigorous unit testing and debugging to deliver robust and defect-free solutions.
• Develop into an internal NYL SME for the applications you support in your value stream: acting as technical point SME for capabilities that your technology has enabled.
• Develop integrations between the Salesforce platform and all the necessary data, solutions, and services endpoints needed.
• Partner with the Scrum Master and Product Owner to refine and analyze the backlog and drive the technical delivery of features and user stories into working software (and specifications).
• Stay current with the latest technology including but not limited to Salesforce technologies.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Actively participate in daily standup calls, sprint planning and Production Increment (PI) planning sessions.
• Actively collaborate with and align to information, data, security and infrastructure strategies.
• Partners with Business stakeholders and to review and understand business requirements.
• Conducts complete assessments of complex business problems, including those involving multiple systems, customers, platforms, and technologies.
• Proposes technology solutions within areas of the team’s development.
• Stays current on NYL architectural standards.
• Identifies and suggests technical and architectural improvements in current systems.
• Supports the project through the entire software development lifecycle from initial kickoff to production deployment.
   

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
• 0-3 years professional experience as a software engineer, programmer, or similar role.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; Can work independently to solve complex technical issues, unit test, and debug.
• Hunger for continuous learning of new technologies, methodologies, and ways to solve problems.
• Strong SQL skills, including query optimization, performance tuning, and report development.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills