Salesforce Developer

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000 people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

This role can be located anywhere in Toronto, Calgary or the US!

As a Senior Salesforce Sr. Developer you will be charged with state of the art analysis, development, testing and documentation for projects. Additionally, this Senior Salesforce.com Developer position will also engage in support and enhancement requests.

This successful developer will be responsible for ensuring that the system accurately meets the defined expectations of the business, ensuring that proper testing is implemented, and performance and security requirements are closely monitored by working with the project teams. The candidate must also be able to identify and confirm technical design risks and develop mitigating approaches. You should also be comfortable in providing a level of effort estimates for the technical portion of solutions.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the analysis and review of business requirements and the design of solutions.
• Apply best practices and experience to Salesforce solutions.
• Develop work estimates for projects.
• Perform support and development activities for applications/projects assigned to the team.
• Document application specifications and solutions to satisfy project requirements.
• Identify and evaluate vendor/partner software and integration strategies.
• Develop and code solutions to specification.
• Ability to define the system landscape, to identify gaps between current and desired end-states and deliver a solution
• Ability to lead design sessions and communicate design options to clients
• Identify and implement appropriate testing strategies.
• Execute all steps required to deploy/implement the application solution.
• Participate in a self directed team environment. Collaborate with project team members and QA on development, customer issues, and security requirements.
• Off-hours work will be required as business demands dictate.
• Mentorship of junior colleagues a must

Your Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, MIS, technical area generally required. Will accept any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 6 years’ experience in Architecture role - SFDC or other CRM architecture experience a plus
• At least 4 years’ experience with Integration technologies
• 8 years Salesforce experience, in Visual Force/APEX development, integration and configuration REQUIRED.
• Experience with Salesforce Web Services APIs - Force.com SOAP and REST-based Web Service APIs, the Bulk API, and the Metadata API STRONGLY PREFERRED.
• Working knowledge of security concepts such as single sign on and data security
• At least 4 years’ experience in Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methods
• Ability to exercise good judgment, decision making and creativity.
• Ability to readily grasp complex architectural environments.
• Ability to work from general direction in the development of detailed solutions.
• Must enjoy assisting others in supporting project needs.
• Demonstrated analytical capabilities including complex technical problem solving
• Effective communication and organizational skills
• Experience in all phases of software development life cycle methodologies and processes
• Demonstrated work performance in a high-performance team work environment
• Ability to follow and adhere to programming standards and methodologies

Experience in any of the following areas is a plus:

• Salesforce Service Cloud and Sales Cloud implementations
• Performing business analysis for IT projects
• Agile development experience
• Java, J2EE, Struts, JSP, TIBCO, Javascript, Demandware/Commerce
• Mercury testing tools (i.e. TestDirector, Quicktest and LoadRunner).
• Must have Developer and App Builder certifications and at least 3-4 more certs (admin, sales, service, mulesoft etc).

Why PS?

• Competitive Salary
• An impactful position within a growing company
• Excellent Healthcare plans and overall benefits and employee perks
• 401k Match
• Training on Salesforce platform
• An incredible team full of passionate professionals!

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at 1-617-621-0200.