Lead/Senior Salesforce Developer

Location: Reston, VA
Hyrid - 3 days a week Onsite

Description:
The client is seeking specialized Senior and Lead Developers to design, develop, and implement applications using Salesforce to support business requirements.

They perform high complexity (i.e. system level applications) analysis, design, development and unit testing of software applications from user requirements and design documents. Thes candidates also resolve defects encountered during various testing cycles.

Requirements:
10+ years of hands-on Salesforce development experience.
Proficiency in Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components (LWC), and SOQL/SOSL.
Experience with Salesforce APIs (REST/SOAP), OAuth, and integration patterns.
Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture, including governor limits and security.
Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Salesforce DX).
Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Certifications (Highly Preferred)
Salesforce Platform Developer I & II
Salesforce Application Architect or System Architect
Salesforce Certified Integration Architecture Designer
Salesforce Certified JavaScript Developer I (for LWC-heavy roles)

Soft Skills
Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Ability to lead projects and work independently.

Additional Job Responsibilities:

Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications.

Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts.

Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution.

Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area.

Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment.

Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required.

10+ years experience required.

Development experience in needed language or technology (e.g. - WebSphere, Informatica etc.).

Hands on experience in designing, developing and successful deployment of large scale projects from end-to-end.

Hands on experience in following the iterative and agile SDLC.

2+ experience in the Salesforce platform (development experience must exceed 5 years)

Knowledge in SOAP API, REST API, and Bulk API

Experience integration Salesforce with 3rd party APIs

Strong skills with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and UI frameworks within Visualforce pages or Lightning components

Experience with development tools such as Visual Force, Git

Deep understanding of the limitations on the Salesforce platform, specifically with governor limits and best practices in delivering solutions.

Familiar with Salesforce Administration: configuration, standard data model, security, and automation such as validation rules, workflows, and process flows.

Proficient with at least a one other backend language or environment (e.g. Java, Python, Node, etc..)

Experience in working with complex Salesforce environments

Experience working on multiple projects, ability to QA your own work and others, and follow best practices

You pride yourself in writing clean code, test thoroughly, strong documentation, and high test coverage

Conducts code review in accordance with recommendations.

Some experience with LWC (Lightning Web Components)

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