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Title: Senior Salesforce Developer
Location: Everett, MA ( Hybrid), 3 day/week onsite.
Interview: In-person only
Duration: 12 Months contract
Job Overview
We are seeking a Senior Salesforce Administrator / Developer to support critical enterprise Salesforce initiatives. The ideal candidate is a strategic Salesforce professional who can go beyond simply implementing requirements to understand the underlying business need and translate business objectives into scalable, maintainable Salesforce solutions.
- The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Salesforce Development, OmniStudio, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Apex, Experience Cloud, Salesforce integrations, and Lightning migration. Candidates must have at least 4 years of OmniStudio experience.
- The role requires someone who can evaluate and enhance vendor-delivered solutions, challenge assumptions constructively, collaborate with stakeholders, and contribute to the overall Salesforce application architecture.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary System Administrator for Salesforce environments.
- Handle Salesforce administrative functions, including:
- User account maintenance
- Reports and dashboards
- Workflows
- Routine Salesforce administration
- Respond to end-user issues, enhancement requests, and administrative needs.
- Coordinate the evaluation, scope, and completion of new Salesforce development requests.
- Manage integrations between Salesforce and external applications.
- Work independently with business users to define and document development requirements.
- Facilitate backlog grooming sessions.
- Serve as the liaison between business users and application development teams.
- Complete regular internal Salesforce system audits and prepare related documentation.
- Translate business objectives into scalable and maintainable Salesforce solutions.
- Favor configuration over customization whenever appropriate.
- Evaluate and enhance vendor-delivered Salesforce solutions.
- Contribute to scalable and intuitive Salesforce application architecture.
- Support Salesforce development, testing, deployment, and enhancement activities.
- Consider long-term maintainability, scalability, usability, and business objectives when designing solutions.
Required Qualifications
- 7 years of Salesforce Development experience.
- 4 years of Salesforce OmniStudio experience – REQUIRED.
- Strong experience developing complex Lightning Web Components (LWC).
- Strong Apex Development experience.
- Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with external applications using:
- REST APIs
- SOAP APIs
- Middleware
- Asynchronous technologies
- Experience with Salesforce Classic to Lightning migration.
- Experience with CI/CD, Salesforce CLI (SFDX), and Git-based version control.
- Strong Salesforce administration and development experience.
- Ability to work directly with stakeholders and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
Salesforce Certifications
Candidates should specify whether they hold:
- Salesforce Platform Developer II Certification
- OmniStudio Developer Certification
- Other Salesforce Architecture-Level Certifications
Accessibility
- Experience with WCAG 2.1 Accessibility is required to be identified during screening