Senior Salesforce Developer/Architect

Dansources Technical Services - Silver Spring, MD

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Silver Spring, MD

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Senior Salesforce Developer/Architect at Leidos is a remote position focused on enhancing the Salesforce platform, which includes CRM, Knowledge Management, and Public Portal functionalities. The role involves full development life cycle responsibilities, from technical design to deployment, and requires collaboration with internal and external teams to gather requirements and implement solutions that meet business needs. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience with Salesforce development and configuration, as well as a strong understanding of web application development.

Responsibilities

• Manage development activities across an agile team, driving customer stakeholder engagements, mentoring staff, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality projects.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand organizational goals and translate these into specific Salesforce initiatives.
• Drive the ongoing development and refinement of the Salesforce environment, adapting to meet evolving needs.
• Perform hands-on technical Salesforce development and implementations, focusing on delivering functional solutions on the Salesforce.com platform.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into customized solutions using the Salesforce platform.
• Configure and maintain Salesforce objects, fields, and relationships, customizing page layouts, flows, integration, automation, and validation rules.
• Implement Salesforce solutions that adhere to platform best practices and perform peer code reviews.
• Provide development support from design through testing and deployment, often working with other team members.
• Assist with quality testing, including creating test scripts and training artifacts, and troubleshooting as needed.
• Implement, deploy, and document projects that leverage the Salesforce.com toolset.
• Support the live application post-delivery and perform hand-off and knowledge transfer activities to clients.
• Stay up to date with the latest Salesforce releases, features, and industry trends, recommending improvements and identifying opportunities for optimization and automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in I.T. or related field with 8+ years of related experience; Master's degree with 6+ years of experience (additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree).
• Ability to successfully obtain a Public Trust Security clearance, which includes a credit check and background investigation.
• Strong understanding of the Salesforce data model and best practices.
• Experience with Salesforce platform programming languages: Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Component framework, and Managed Packages.
• Web application development experience including JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5.
• Lightning Component development experience.
• Experience with Lightning Design System framework.
• Familiarity with declarative Force.com development tools such as Process Builder, Visual Workflow, and Lightning App Builder.
• Ability to follow established Salesforce development standards and best practices.
• Comfortable communicating with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work east coast hours (9:00 am ET - 5:00 pm ET).

Nice-to-haves

• Certifications: Salesforce Platform Developer II, App Builder, Administration.