Senior Salesforce Developer

Title: Senior Salesforce Developer

Location: Indianapolis, IN (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 Months

Interview type: Webcam only

NOTE:

• Candidate Must Be Local

Job Description:

1. Application Support & Maintenance

• Provide expert-level troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of platform issues across Salesforce core, Experience Cloud, integrations, and custom components.
• Maintain platform stability by monitoring jobs, logs, APIs, errors, governor limits, and overall system performance.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, SOPs, data dictionaries, workflow inventories, and system configurations.
• Conduct proactive maintenance, including refactoring, technical debt reduction, performance tuning, and remediation of security findings.

2. Development, Enhancements & Modernization

• Architect, design, and implement new features using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, permission models, and data structures.
• Lead code reviews, enforce secure coding standards, and ensure high test coverage and adherence to best practices.
• Own and manage multi environment release cycles (Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, Prod) using CI/CD pipelines and version control.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, maintainable, and compliant technical solutions.

3. Integration & Interoperability

• Design, support, and optimize API-based integrations, including MuleSoft or similar middleware frameworks.
• Ensure reliable and secure data exchange between Salesforce and external systems involved in reporting, surveillance, analytics, and operational workflows.
• Monitor API health, throughput, rate limits, and error handling; implement resilience patterns such as retries, queueing, and payload optimization.
• Maintain integration mapping documentation, interface specifications, and versioning strategies.

4. Security, Compliance & Governance

• Ensure all work adheres to cybersecurity, identity governance, and secure SDLC requirements.
• Implement and maintain platform-level security controls including Field Audit Trail, Event Monitoring, Platform Encryption, MFA, least privilege access, and audits.
• Support vulnerability remediation, conduct impact assessments, and participate in architectural reviews.
• Maintain compliance in all aspects of environment management, data access, logging, encryption, and change control.

5. Enterprise Scale Operations

• Manage sandbox strategy, refresh cadence, and environment alignment across the development lifecycle.
• Implement advanced monitoring, alerting, observability dashboards, and performance analytics.
• Support platform continuity through backup/restore strategies, DR planning, and failover procedure validation.
• Conduct periodic platform health reviews and provide recommendations for stability, scalability, and long term optimization.

6. Training, Knowledge Transfer & Internal Capacity Building

• Develop structured training programs for internal teams covering administration, configuration, development, and troubleshooting.
• Create durable documentation including architecture diagrams, workflow maps, deployment guides, operational procedures, and technical standards.
• Mentor internal staff to ensure sustainable long-term support and enhance overall organizational Salesforce capability.
• Facilitate post implementation ownership transition and ensure internal teams can independently manage ongoing enhancements.

7. Licensing & Platform Strategy

• Maintain expert-level understanding of Salesforce license structures, including core licenses, Experience Cloud, API usage entitlements, feature tiers, and cost impacts.
• Map license assignments to required roles and propose adjustments to optimize cost and functionality.
• Forecast license needs for user growth, newmodules, and future integrations.

Required/Desired Skills:

• Professional experience in enterprise application development
• Dedicated Salesforce experience
• Deep expertise in Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, SOQL/SOSL, and advanced configuration.
• Senior-level experience supporting large, complex Salesforce environments with strict SLAs and high security requirements
• Strong technical background in API design, integration patterns, middleware, and enterprise data exchange.
• Knowledge of security hardening, identity governance, encryption strategies, and auditability in compliance-driven environments.
• Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, environment promotion, and DevOps practices.
• Ability to create architecture diagrams, technical design documents, process flows, and well structured operational documentation.
• Strong proficiency with Salesforce license models and platform optimization strategies.
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to train and mentor technical staff.
• Advanced Salesforce certifications (Platform Developer II, Experience Cloud Consultant, Integration Architect, Identity & Access Management).
• Background in public-sector technology, regulated environments, or statewide system modernizations.
• Experience with observability tools, error monitoring platforms, and secure cloud integration patterns.
• Familiarity with SRE practices, resilience engineering, and performance benchmarking.