Salesforce Pardot Developer

Salesforce/Pardot Developer Opportunity (CONTRACT | Remote Available / Hybrid Preferred | Des Plaines / Northbrook, IL)

CONTRACT OVERVIEW

ROLE TITLE: Salesforce Developer - Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot)

o The client is currently based in Des Plaines, Illinois, and plans to move its office to Northbrook, Illinois, in August 2026. The expected hybrid frequency is to be confirmed.

CLIENT LOCATION: Des Plaines, IL (moving to Northbrook, IL in August 2026)

REQUIRED SKILLS: (Need All)

Strong hands-on development experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (formerly Pardot) in a production environment.

Demonstrated ability to create, maintain, and troubleshoot marketing workflows and automation using Engagement Studio, automation rules, completion actions, segmentation logic, lists, and related Account Engagement capabilities.

Experience supporting the Salesforce and Account Engagement integration, including prospects, leads, contacts, campaigns, field mappings, assignment/routing logic, data synchronization, and data-quality issues.

Working knowledge of Salesforce platform configuration and declarative automation, including Salesforce Flow and the underlying Salesforce data model.

Ability to provide day-to-day operational support, diagnose production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and safely modify business-critical automations.

Experience gathering requirements and translating them into tested, maintainable Salesforce or Account Engagement enhancements and net-new components.

Ability to understand and reverse-engineer a mature environment, preserve existing business logic, and improve documentation and supportability.

Strong communication and collaboration skills across Marketing, Sales, business stakeholders, Salesforce administrators/developers, and IT teams.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS:

Account Engagement forms and form handlers, landing pages, email templates, dynamic content, lead scoring/grading, and campaign attribution/reporting.

HTML and CSS for customization and troubleshooting of marketing forms, landing pages, and email assets; JavaScript experience is a plus.

Salesforce development experience with Apex, SOQL/SOSL, Lightning Web Components, or Visualforce.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS (continued):

Account Engagement API (including version 5), Salesforce REST/SOAP APIs, OAuth, or integrations through middleware and third-party marketing tools.

Experience with Connected Campaigns, Salesforce Campaigns, reports/dashboards, and lead-lifecycle or sales-handoff processes.

Release management, source control, regression testing, and deployment practices for Salesforce changes.

Salesforce certifications such as Marketing Cloud Account Engagement Specialist or Consultant, Salesforce Administrator, Platform App Builder, or Platform Developer I.

DESCRIPTION OF ROLE:

The client is seeking a hands-on Salesforce Developer whose primary focus will be Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, the product formerly known as Pardot. This contractor will backfill responsibilities previously handled by a long-tenured team member and will assume ownership of a mature, business-critical environment. The work will combine operational support and maintenance with the design and delivery of new workflows, automations, and related Salesforce components.

Learn the existing Salesforce and Account Engagement environment, including inherited workflows, integrations, dependencies, conventions, and business rules.

Maintain, enhance, and troubleshoot Engagement Studio programs, automation rules, completion actions, segmentation/list logic, lead-routing processes, and other marketing automation workflows.

Develop net-new automation and Salesforce components based on business requirements while protecting the stability of existing production processes.

Monitor and resolve connector, synchronization, field-mapping, validation, permissions, duplicate-record, and other data-quality or process-alignment issues.

Support marketing assets and lead-management processes, which may include forms, form handlers, landing pages, email templates, scoring/grading, campaigns, and sales handoffs.

Perform impact analysis, configuration/development, testing, regression validation, deployment, and post-release support for changes.

Partner with Marketing, Sales, business users, and technical teams to clarify requirements, recommend solutions, and prioritize support and enhancement work.

Create and maintain technical and operational documentation so the environment is supportable beyond the immediate transition.

OTHER NOTABLES:

This is an ASAP contractor need, and the budget is open based on the candidate's experience and fit.

Remote candidates can be considered, but local candidates able to work hybrid in the Chicago north/northwest suburbs are preferred.

The client office will transition from Des Plaines to Northbrook in August 2026.

Success will depend on both technical depth and the ability to take ownership of an inherited platform with substantial institutional knowledge embedded in the current solution.