Software Engineer - Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Ford - Springfield, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Springfield, IL

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

At Ford Motor Company, we are committed to building a better world through innovative technology and design. As a Software Engineer specializing in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, you will play a crucial role in transforming how our clients engage with their users. This position is part of the Ford Pro CRM Marketing Cloud and Data Cloud engineering team, where you will provide hands-on technical design and development, as well as team leadership. Your work will directly impact the quality of our solutions and the satisfaction of our functional partners and their customers. In this role, you will be part of a diverse, global team, working on multiple cloud platforms. You will have the opportunity to implement and learn in three clouds, contributing to a wide variety of projects that drive human progress through mobility. Your responsibilities will include delivering Salesforce solutions on Marketing Cloud and Data Cloud, acting as a technical subject matter expert, and providing guidance to junior team members. You will also be accountable for the technical delivery of Marketing Cloud projects, ensuring that best practices are followed throughout the development process. You will collaborate closely with Product Managers to review features and user stories, convert functional requirements into technical specifications, and manage technical risks and issues. Your ability to analyze gaps in requirements and communicate effectively with internal teams and clients will be essential for success. Additionally, you will leverage integrations between Salesforce, Marketing Cloud, and external applications, ensuring seamless functionality across platforms. This position offers a unique opportunity to innovate and operate with an agile, user-centric perspective, contributing to the future of mobility at Ford.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Salesforce solutions on Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, and other related technology platforms
• Play technical SME role on projects to design Marketing Cloud Solutions, provide technical walk-throughs to other developers and client feature owners
• Provide technical leadership on projects by providing necessary guidance to junior team members to follow Salesforce best practices
• Accountable for Marketing Cloud technical delivery - Build, System Testing handover/co-ordination, Tech. documentation and deployment activities
• Support Product Managers in reviewing features/user-stories, convert functional requirements to technical requirements, estimate user stories, plan team capacity and work closely with PM to finalize iteration scope
• Analyze/identify gaps in functional/business requirements, discuss with functional and business product owners on required changes that align with the Marketing Cloud and Salesforce product stack and architecture
• Leverage integrations between Salesforce, Marketing Cloud, and external applications using REST, SOAP APIs, oAuth and Single Sign-On
• Leverage Non-production environments, and migrate changes from lower environments to production environment(s)
• Define solution and configuration review methodology, perform independent reviews and certify metadata developed by self and other junior team members on the project
• Manage technical risks and issues as well as cross dependencies with other teams
• Communicate effectively with internal teams and client to address technical design and functional gaps
• Effectively debug and resolve technical issues and/or defects which may be reported as a result of faults in the production system
• Assist in writing technical approach and design documentation as required
• Work closely with the Product Managers to include continuous technical improvement in the Product Line roadmap
• Collaborate with other Product Anchors to reduce complexity across the portfolio, enhance interoperability between services, and make key design decisions across the portfolio
• Ensure engineering excellence (e.g. best practices and quality) is achieved within product group
• Clearly communicate technology strategy and vision to team members and internal and external stakeholders
• Innovate and operate with an iterative, agile and user-centric perspective

Requirements

• 6+ years of overall experience in Marketing Cloud implementation in Sales Cloud and Service
• Experience in a Data Management role, using Conceptual Data models, Logical Data models, High level Design & Low-Level Design
• Experience with Marketing Cloud solution design, development, and integrations with other Salesforce products
• Lead solution design, architecture, and delivery for enterprise-level projects
• Interact directly with client stakeholders and business end users to analyze their business
• Proven ability to effectively prioritize workload and meet deadlines
• Strong working knowledge of Salesforce relevant technologies: Marketing Cloud, Data Cloud, MuleSoft, and other Salesforce ecosystem products and solutions
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills with ability to present ideas in a clear manner to non-Salesforce teams
• Strong sense of ownership with the motivation to build and maintain operational excellence
• Salesforce Certifications

Nice-to-haves

• Experience of building in Agile Development Methodology
• Marketing Cloud and Data Cloud experience
• Technical team lead experience

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time