Lead Salesforce Developer

Allegis Group - Hanover, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Hanover, MD

11-50 employees

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

As a Lead Salesforce Developer at Allegis Group, you will play a pivotal role in a globally diverse team within an industry-leading organization that prioritizes its employees. Allegis Group is a global leader in talent solutions, dedicated to creating significant opportunities that shape the world. The Connected program is a multi-year strategic initiative aimed at digitally transforming Sales, Recruiting, and Marketing capabilities across Allegis Group and its operating companies. In this role, you will be a core member of the Connected team, responsible for researching, designing, developing, and optimizing innovative solutions on the Salesforce platform. Your work will enable critical business functions and enhance user experience. You will interact with various stakeholders, including Product Owners, Analysts, Developers, QA, Architects, UX, Scrum Masters, Vendors, and IS Leadership. The ideal candidate will possess a blend of customer service, leadership, and analytical skills, along with a strong technical background in Salesforce technologies. As a Lead Developer, you will be tasked with developing new solutions and enhancing existing ones, ensuring that implementations are optimized and technical debt is minimized. You will also create proof-of-concepts and user interface prototypes, define team design and development standards, and provide technical leadership throughout the development process to deliver high-quality products. Coaching and mentoring team members will be a key aspect of your role, as will engaging with other teams to provide thought leadership and technical expertise across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Leads design and architecture of complex Salesforce solutions with the architecture, design, and product teams, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.
• Codes, configures, unit tests (coverage 80%+), supports, and continually refactors to improve the code base to enhance existing and new products within an Agile environment.
• Oversees the development process of a team of 10+ people following SDLC practices, ensuring timely delivery of features.
• Solves complex technical challenges, triages and resolves defects, optimizes application performance, and supports functional/automation testing in and outside of the team.
• Sets coding standards and best practices for the development team, including code quality, providing thorough mentoring, feedback, and enforcement via PRs and other avenues.
• Leads the adoption of new technologies, innovative solutions, and design patterns that facilitate scalability and maintainability, such as Service Layer, Domain-Driven Design, and Dependency Injection.
• Communicates status, issues, risks, escalations, and resolutions to team members and stakeholders, including complex concepts to technical, business, and leadership audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 5+ years of experience with Salesforce Declarative development using Process Builder, Workflows, Flows, Lightning App Builder.
• 5+ years of experience with Salesforce platform programming including Visualforce, LWC, APEX, SOQL, and SOSL.
• 3+ years of experience in Web Application Development using JavaScript, Responsive CSS, and HTML following Object Oriented development patterns like SOLID.
• Knowledge and experience with Salesforce architecture and APIs, Salesforce security configuration, sharing rules, and user management.
• Experience developing integration solutions using MuleSoft, REST APIs, SOAP APIs, oAuth, Messaging, and Single Sign-On.
• Thorough understanding of Salesforce development and deployment processes and tools, including git, GitHub actions, Salesforce DX, and other DevOps and automation practices.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing in Salesforce's Sales, Service, and Experience (Community) Clouds.
• Salesforce certifications such as Certified Platform Developer I and II, Advanced Administrator, Service Cloud Consultant, Platform App Builder, and Einstein Analytics and Discovery Consultant.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from $108,000 to $162,000 USD.
• Full-time employment with flexible work options including remote, on-site, and hybrid arrangements.