Sr. Salesforce Developer

Founded in 2003, IT Concepts’ core values – customer-centricity, teamwork, driven to deliver, innovation, and integrity – ensure we work together to be the best, realize objectives, and make a positive impact in our communities. We intentionally created and sustain our ITC culture that embraces change, experimentation, continuous learning, and improvement. We bring our design thinking problem solving approach that challenges assumptions, prioritizes curiosity, and invites complexity to deliver innovative, efficient, and effective solutions. As we continue to grow in the support of our government customers, we are looking for driven and innovative individuals to join our team.

IT Concepts is seeking to hire a qualified Salesforce Developer to support our USDA customer. The Salesforce platform and application software development will support the Forest Service Human Resources Enterprise Solution (HRES) leadership with a unified tool that uses organizational management to plan and hire, using a structured approach based on key priority employee positions and needs. As a Salesforce Developer, you will be part of a team helping Forest Service achieve mission-driven success. Current organizational management data exist in disparate systems (Access, Excel, SharePoint, NFC, EmpowHR, AgLearn, Performance Management System, Budget Management System, etc.). The solution to be configured must consider data integration and consolidation to avoid multiple manual entries and/or data duplication.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Forest Service stakeholders to gather and comprehend business requirements, prioritize the requirements and determine the necessary functionalities and integrations within Salesforce platform.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including other developers, administrators, and business analysts, to align on project requirements, timelines, and deliverables.
• Work with the development team on analysis, design, configuration, coding, testing, and deployment while adhering to current System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes.
• Work closely with different project teams, business domain experts and other technical staff members.
• Translates business and technical requirements into solution designs that satisfy the business needs and comply with approved standards. Reviews functional specifications, creates detailed technical design and technical specifications.
• Ensure development activities are aligned with scope, schedule, priority, and business objectives. Oversees code development and unit and performance testing activities. Develops and enhances application code.
• Maximize the customers’ requirements by prioritizing use of out-of-the-box functionality of Salesforce and other tools, balancing between customization and configuration
• Troubleshooting and fixing bugs in the custom applications

Location: Employee should be within commuting distance to DC area for potential site visits. Majority of position is telework.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Technology or related field
• Experience supporting Salesforce platform and application development efforts for federal government

• 4+ years of experience designing and building applications using object-oriented languages at the federal level (Java application, Java Development)
• 4+ years of experience developing within a professional Software Development Life Cycle methodology - Specifically SAFe Agile Management and Development (or equivalent- Agile, SCRUM, and/or Waterfall, etc.)
• Experience supporting federal IT projects.
• Excellent at identifying and solving problems.
• Global Information Assurance Certification for Secured Software Programming or equivalent
• Must be a U.S Citizen 

• Required Salesforce Certifications

• Platform App Builder; or
• Platform Developer I

Preferred:

• Experience being part of Salesforce implementations

Clearance:

• Willing and able to complete Public Trust Suitability process.

Benefits

The Company

We believe in generating success collaboratively, enabling long-term mission success, and building trust for the next challenge. With you as our partner, let’s solve challenges, think innovatively, and maximize impact. As a valued member of our ITC community, you have the unique opportunity to work in a diverse range of technology and business career paths, all while supporting our nation and delivering innovative technology solutions. We are a close community of experts that pride ourselves on creating an environment defined by teamw