Application Developer - Salesforce, Senior

Your Role

Blue Shield of California is looking for a Salesforce developer to join our IT Application Services team. The candidate will be the subject matter expert for the Salesforce Health Cloud platform. This individual will build/develop the Salesforce components and integrations.  and serve as the expert developer responsible for assuring real-time solutions built within the portfolio are highly secure and robust.  This includes effective communication & influence of IT, business, and vendor partners to provide solutions that optimize cost, quality, security, and fit for purpose.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Be a technical champion and advocate for the optimization of Salesforce solutions needed to support Blue Shield’s growth and financial goals
• Serve as technical consultant for major initiatives impacting the Operations portfolio - establishing trusted relationship with business partners, internal IT organization, other IT portfolio leaders, and key suppliers’ technical teams
• Provide technical leadership in establishing a competency center that educates other IT professionals on service & cloud-based design & development practices
• Effectively communicate approach, value, risk, alternatives, and status of goal progress with executive & senior management, business sponsors, and product managers
• Be experienced with relevant software development tools, industry protocols, troubleshooting & support procedures, monitoring & quality controls, and communication/documentation software
• Be self-directed, work with limited management direction and exercise considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment
• Apply significant knowledge of IT and healthcare industry trends

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires 5+ years of hands-on design, coding, integration, and deployment experience in SaaS applications, with high-level knowledge of Salesforce applications
• Strong technical acumen & deep working knowledge of Agile Methods, Service Architecture, and enterprise Cloud Integration
• Requires Salesforce or Similar Custom application development with Integrations
• Extensive experience in Salesforce configuration and development including Workflows, Process Builder, Apex (classes and triggers), Visual Force page, Lightning Components
• Salesforce Admin/Developer certification is preferred
• Experience in Application Integration, design and applying to the Vlocity techniques such as Integration Procedures, Apex
• Demonstrated ability to formulate strategies, communicate and build alignment on concepts from ideation to execution
• Strong ability to influence, collaborate, and build relationships with key stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams
• Ability to assess potential opportunities, risks, and issues, and make recommendations to resolve or course-correct as necessary
• Ability to effectively manage meetings and work regularly with a variety of stakeholders
• Effective verbal and written communication skills including the ability to create, translate, and execute technical deliverables
• Proven experience educating & influencing others and collaborating across all functions and levels in a highly matrixed organization
• Healthcare experience in Membership, Enrollment, Provider claims processing & payments is preferred (Facets, FHIR)
• Experience working with external vendors & distributed on/offshore teams