Senior Salesforce Developer (remote)

DePaul University - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Chicago, IL

Educational Services

About the position

The Senior Salesforce Developer at DePaul University is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing customized solutions within the Salesforce platform. This role involves leading a team, ensuring effective platform maintenance and optimization, streamlining business processes, enhancing customer engagement, and driving data-driven decision-making. The developer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions aligned with the university's business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maintenance of custom Apex classes, triggers, and Visualforce pages.
• Design and implement complex Salesforce Flows to automate business processes, ensuring seamless integration with other Salesforce features and third-party applications.
• Develop and configure Experience Cloud sites to enhance user engagement, customizing the user interface to meet the specific needs of the organization.
• Collaborate with educational stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications, supporting the implementation of Salesforce for student information systems, alumni management, and other education-related functions.
• Provide training and support to end-users on the use of Salesforce Flows, optimizing existing Flows for efficiency and scalability.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to the professional development of the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proficient in Apex coding with significant experience in developing and maintaining custom Apex classes, triggers, and Visualforce pages.
• Experienced with Salesforce Flows, capable of designing and implementing complex Flows to automate business processes.
• Skilled in developing and configuring Experience Cloud sites to enhance user engagement.
• Familiar with higher education processes and requirements is a plus.
• Salesforce certified (e.g., Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II, Salesforce Certified Administrator) with additional advanced certifications preferred.
• Knowledge of Lightning Web Components (LWC).
• Experience with Salesforce integration tools such as MuleSoft.
• Familiarity with other Salesforce products and features like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Data Cloud and/or Marketing Cloud.
• Proven leadership experience in technical projects or teams.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with higher education processes and requirements.

Benefits

• Top choice medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Retirement plan matching contribution of 10%.
• Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.
• Generous paid time off, sick time, holidays, floating holidays, and more!