What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Salesforce Developer position at Baldwin Group Colleague, Inc.?
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Core responsibilities
The responsibilities include, working with product owners, end user stakeholders, architects and help design the experience in Salesforce as well as lead the work output from the other developers on the team.
The Sr developer designs, codes, and tests Salesforce custom solutions comprising work in Apex, Lightning, Salesforce APIs, SOQL, and Visualforce. Developing proof of concepts based on the requirements, quickly showing results to elicit more detailed requirements is expected from this role.
The developer must have both Salesforce administration and coding expertise. The slated work in the current initiatives require a lot of front-end user experience design with Financial Services Cloud (FSC) as well as API integrations with various systems. FSC experience is strongly preferred.
Certifications are strongly preferred along with years of experience.
Working knowledge in the CI/CD platforms is essential. We use Copado for CI/CD at Baldwin.
Position Responsibilities
Strategy, Design and Planning
- Design solutions for the prioritized capabilities that come out of the product increment planning each quarter.
- Get the user stories detailed down to the technical steps, own the creation of the technical requirements for the work that is assigned.
- Plan the team’s iterative releases.
- Own and create the detailed design documentation for the prioritized capabilities.
- Plan the work for the development team and have detailed technical discussions towards solution design, in collaboration with the architect.
- Create documentation for the story cards that are owned.
- Provide accurate story point estimation towards the requirements in JIRA story cards and identify scenarios that help build the solution forward.
Development, Testing and Deployment
- Hands on design and development within the Salesforce Financial services cloud platform
- Implement, deploy and document projects that leverage the Salesforce.com toolset
- Facilitate the technical sessions with the rest of the developers on the team
- Thoroughly test each story card in the lower environments before turning the code to QA for testing.
- Create the deployment playbook for all releases, provide detailed tasks for the technical areas of the deployment, encompassing back-out plans and communication plan.
- Lead the release to ensure smooth deployment into production.
- Conduct POCs to experiment with latest features of Salesforce and products from the partner ecosystem.
Operational Management
- Align the team’s releases with the core platform release calendar.
- Ensure all development is in line with code coverage requirements, test class and health metrics.
- Track dependencies with other teams towards successful sprint completion as well as deployments.
- Validate that the product has been correctly packaged before deployment and ensure that all release controls have been satisfied.
- Participate in release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and business go/no-go reviews.
- Work with other sprint teams to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
- Lead and co-ordinate the go-live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists.
- Keep the developer sandbox up to date with back promotions where relevant to help accuracy in the environments.
Position Requirements
Formal Education & Certification
- College diploma or university degree in the field of computer science and/or 8 years of relevant work experience.
- Certifications in Salesforce technologies
- Certifications in Agile project management practices
Knowledge & Experience
- Bachelor's degree with 8-12 years of experience in the Salesforce technologies
- Experience with Salesforce platform programming languages - Apex, Visualforce, Lightning web components and javascript and aura components.
- Hands-on experience integrating Salesforce with third party applications using REST/SOAP APIs
- Extensive experience with APEX, Lightning Components, Data Loader, Sales CLI, Force.com Custom Development, Triggers, Controllers, Force.com REST/SOAP APIs, sObjects, SOQL, SOSL, Workbench, Outbound Messaging, and creating Visualforce Pages.
- Automating Business Processes with OmniScripts
- Declarative Force.com development tools such as Process Builder, Flows and Lightning app builder.
- Follow established Salesforce development standards and best practices
- Proven experience with release management and environment management, sandbox refreshes
- Excellent understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
- Ability to learn any other appropriate program or software system used by the firm as necessary
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Personal Attributes
- Hungry to learn, demonstrated continuous learning and upkeep of certifications
- Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to conduct research into release issues and tools as required.
- Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and business languages.
- Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
- Proven analytical and creative problem-solving abilities.
- Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Work Conditions
- Deployments happen during off hours, this role is expected to lead and support all deployment efforts from the agile team.
- Core working hours are in EST.
- The role is local to Tampa, FL and is expected to be in the office 3 days a week.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
- This position description is intended to describe the level of work required of the person performing in the role and is not a contract. The essential responsibilities are outlined; other duties may be assigned as needs arise or as required to support the organization. All requirements may be subject to reasonable accommodations to applicants and colleagues who need them for medical or religious reasons.
EEOC (STATEMENT):
- BRP is an equal employment opportunity firm and strives to comply with all laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), national origin or ancestry, disability, military status, marital status, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the firm are prohibited from engaging in this conduct.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES & PERCENTAGE OF TIME PER PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY:
Designs, codes, and tests Salesforce custom solutions comprising work in Apex, Lightning, Salesforce APIs, SOQL, and Visualforce (25%)
Lead Support Functions (25%):
- Serves as the primary contact and lead support engineer for all Salesforce based applications
- Supports mission critical applications in production and assist in the resolution of customer issues
- Maintains a stable, high performing Salesforce environment
Produces deliverables with clean, well-documented and easily maintainable code that adheres to best practice coding standards (20%)
Consults with process owners in reviewing, interpreting, and developing solutions in accordance with user requirements, as well as utilizing these requirements to develop new Salesforce modules (20%)
Actively participates and assists with company events such as hiring, training and internal initiatives (10%)
MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISORY SCOPE:
- This role has no direct/indirect reports. This role is an Individual Contributor (Tier 1).
FINANCIAL AND BUDGET ACCOUNTABILITY:
- No
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