Senior Salesforce Developer

Hi Irfan,

We are hiring candidates for the Position: Senior Salesforce Developer

Location: 100% remote

Type: Contract to hire

Skills: Custom Application Development, Salesforce Apex, Salesforce Development, Salesforce Lightning

Candidates should have active Platform 1 and Platform 2 certification.

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Senior Salesforce Developer (LWC/Aura) supporting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Senior Salesforce Developer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Senior Salesforce Developer joining our team remotely to work on the Salesforce platform and provide IT development in support of Marketplace initiatives. This position is 100% remote with work schedules based on Eastern Standard Time (EST).

How a Senior/Lead Salesforce Developer Will Make an Impact:

• 75% of this role involves custom programming, using Apex, Salesforce lightning component (AURA/LWC), JavaScript, and other development languages and tools once fully onboarded.
• Develop Lightning components both by writing custom LWC in JavaScript with Aura framework and within the Salesforce Lightning Design System, maintaining fluency with Apex, Salesforce query, and Salesforce Search language (SOQL and SOSL).
• Support the Product Owner in gathering requirements by providing solution options and highlighting dependencies with the existing implementation.
• Oversee the end-to-end architecture of the Salesforce Platform {Salesforce Service Cloud, Experience Cloud (Portals), and Tableau CRM} and integrations.
• Develop and configure solutions using Salesforce functionality/Lightning Components (AURA and LWC), APEX, Visualforce Pages, SOQL, and SOSL etc.
• Review and provide feedback on technical implementations and documents and ensure that Salesforce best-practices and standards are followed
• Collaborate with junior developers to perform code reviews and provide feedback.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including process documentation, naming and commenting conventions and Salesforce policies/procedures.
• Mentor and provide guidance to development team members, sharing best practices and participating in code reviews as requested.
• Participate in the full application life cycle end to end, including design/requirements, development, testing, and deployment.
• Assist in identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving defects encountered during various stages of project delivery, including during the deployment and implementation of the solution in production environments.
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects, Development Manager, Development Team, Business Analysts, CMS, and other Agile team members to solve complex policy and system integration involving activities across several Salesforce Orgs.

Required Experience:

• 10+ years of hands-on programming/custom coding experience with Salesforce platform, requiring LWC AND Apex.
• Experience should also include: SLDS, Visualforce, Triggers, Batch classes, SOQL, SOSL and declarative platform tools (Flows, Process builder, Lightning App Builder, etc.).
• 3+ years of hands-on experience leading implementation of custom solutions on the Salesforce platform in Lightning and have expert level working knowledge on major Salesforce.com technologies, data modeling, integration, and data migration.

Required Technical Skills:

• Extensive understanding of Salesforce.com best practices, Architecture, Design, Development, Administration, and security model.
• Working knowledge and experience with complex business systems integration, such as with Copado, as well as object-oriented design patterns and development.
• Extensive understanding of Salesforce Service Cloud and Experience Cloud (Communities) development and customization.
• Experience with SFDC specific IDE and version control configurations (Github, BitBucket) for Salesforce development (VS Code, IntelliJ, SFDX)

Security Clearance Level: Candidate must be willing and able to obtain a CMS Public Trust clearance.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Strong communication skills with the ability to present ideas to various levels/skillsets, both internally and externally.
• Provide technical assistance and end user troubleshooting for bug fixes, enhancements, and how-to assistance.
• Ability to multitask between multiple projects and both business and technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills:

• Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD)/Copado
• Extensive understanding of HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, jQuery and Bootstrap.
• Experience in development of Web Services (SOAP and REST)
• Healthcare Service Industry or Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) experience
• Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint
• Experience with infrastructure in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)
• Experience with Agile methodologies and frameworks such as, but not limited to: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban
• Certified SAFe Agilist, SAFe Practitioner or other Agile certification(s)

Please Note:

• Candidate must be available to work M-F 9AM-5PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) and will be expected to actively attend and participate in DAILY meetings. If they cannot attend daily meetings, they cannot take this position.
• We cannot accept candidates who are working on side-projects or other part-time roles.
• This full-time position is 100% remote. Candidate may need to work off-hours for deployment support, but this will be pre-arranged.
• Candidates must have the willingness and ability to obtain a CMS Public Trust after starting.