Senior Salesforce Developer

Overview

Knowledge Services is seeking a Senior Salesforce Developer for a full-time/direct-hire position with the State of Indiana in Indianapolis.  This is a hybrid work schedule of 3 days onsite in downtown Indianapolis and 2 days a week working from home after initial onsite training.  Full State benefits!

 

Salary range of $86,000 - $120,000/yr.

 

Comprehensive Benefits Package:

• Competitive compensation • Flexible Work Arrangement (3 days in-person & 2 days remote)• Healthcare coverage (medical / dental / vision)• Health savings account with employer contribution• Prescription coverage• Employer funded retirement plan (pension plan)• Deferred compensation plan (employer and/or employee contribution plan)• Flexible spending account• Work/life balance (37.5 hours weekly)• 12 paid holidays; 14 during election year• Paid leave (personal, sick, vacation)• Tuition reimbursement, after 6 months of employment• Professional credential reimbursement, day 1• Group life insurance• Employer-paid downtown parking  

Responsibilities

Senior Salesforce Developer Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and upgrading existing systems as required • Troubleshooting technical issues • Collaborates with Business Analysts, Project Leads and IT Developers to resolve issues and ensuring solutions are viable and consistent • Creates system guidelines and manuals for the organization • Conducts training sessions and workshops on system processes • Work with Business and IT teams to establish agreed-upon timelines for projects • Effectively manage multiple tasks and timelines and prioritizing workloads • Modify and upgrade existing systems and functions in Salesforce • Develop new features from the ground up in Salesforce • Design and implement cloud solutions for various environments (Service, Financial, Marketing, Community) • Develop and upgrade functions in Lightning Design System and Lightning Components Development • Complete maintenance activities and prepare new releases in Salesforce system • Develop and coordinate data transfers between Salesforce and outside databases • Stay up to speed on the newest Salesforce technologies and advancements • Research and determine usefulness of new and emerging technologies • Utilize Salesforce best practices and leverage available platform functionalities where possible. • Communicate the pros and cons of a technical solution to business leaders • Easily communicate your ideas through code, writing, presentations, demos, whiteboard sessions. Acts as the subject matter expert to participate in business discussions relating to new functionality, system solutions and other needs as identified by the business. • Configures Salesforce, including custom objects and fields, page layouts, reports, dashboards, profiles, rules, triggers, workflows and approval processes. • Maintains reports and dashboards. • Evaluates, recommends and assists in implementation of third party solutions and app exchange packages based on business request or project needs. • Troubleshoots and solves issues related to the Salesforce environment and applications in use from the app exchange. • Manages the testing process for new functionality: creates test cases ,establishes protocols and testing environments and coordinates testing with business and IT to ensure functionality is met with releases • Research and stays up to date with Salesforce releases. Analyzes new functionality impact to environment and plans for release. • Assists in the development of project cost and time estimates. • Tests and debugs new and existing application software. • Executes tasks in conformance of development techniques, standards, policies and procedures. • Provides complete documentation for new or modified information systems and/or application software programs. • Monitors completed application software systems to ensure proper execution and performance. • Promotes the goals and objectives of the IT Department. • Performs related duties as required.

Qualifications

Senior Salesforce Developer Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience with Salesforce development 

• 5+ years SME in Salesforce Lightning preferred; extensive experience developing Lightning components, both within the Salesforce Lightning Design System and by writing custom Lightning Components in Java Script within the Aura framework.

• Expertise in Apex; extensive experience developing custom Apex Classes and Apex Triggers • Expertise in Salesforce Query and Search Language (SoQL and SoSL), also must be able to speak to limitations of languages and differences between SoQL and SQL.• Experience developing Visualforce pages, Visualforce components, Customer Controllers, Custom Report Types and developing custom Reports and Dashboards.• Experience with interacting with e