Salesforce Platform Engineer

Role: Programmer Analyst 6 (Salesforce)
Location: Lansing, MI
Duration: 12+ Month
Client: State of MI

As a Salesforce Developer, you'll be comfortable with the development, design, and implement customizable solutions within Salesforce based upon CRM needs for the Michigan Enterprise Contact Center team at the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget.

Responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to:

• Work with colleagues, customers, and end users to define technical requirements for new projects and future enhancements.
• Ensure technical requirements align with customer requirements and performance goals consistent with client's long-term strategy.
• Take ownership of release cycles to implement and deploy new/updated applications and code.
• Overall technical responsibility for the technical aspects of project environments.
• Compile and enforce internal development guidelines and standards.
• Collaborate with Developers from other systems for integration across the business.
• Ensure adherence to SOM security guidelines and standards throughout the application lifecycle.
• Provide strategic technical communication at executive level and act as trusted advisor.
• Develop training plans for smooth transition to Maintenance & Operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Salesforce Skills:

• Strong experience in Service Cloud and Experience Cloud.
• Participation in full lifecycle implementations.
• Hands-on writing Apex programming, Visualforce pages, Apex triggers, Aura Components, Lightning Web Components.
• Implementation using Flows, Process Builders, Workflow Rules.
• Gather requirements and guide team implementation.
• Integrate Salesforce with cloud-based and on-premises applications via REST APIs.
• Experience with HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, REST & SOAP, JSON, XML.
• Implement authentication protocols (OAuth) for third-party apps.
• Experience in Batch Apex and Schedule Apex development.
• Manage data migrations, data quality, systems integrations, AppExchange products.
• Manage technical change and release processes for Salesforce efforts.
• Assess Salesforce architecture and provide secure, high-performance solutions.
• Design technical architecture and system integration solutions.
• Support SFDX development, branch management, merging, and Azure DevOps CI/CD.
• Identify technical risks and issues.

Required Skills:

• Migrating Classic to Lightning.
• Bachelor's degree or higher.
• 5+ years with Salesforce Digital Experience Sites.
• Legacy Visualforce Portals to Digital Experience Sites migration.
• 5+ years GoMeddo Scheduling customization or equivalent.
• 5+ years Conga Composer scheduling product experience.
• Salesforce Development Lifecycle including SFDX.
• 6+ years Salesforce development experience.
• 4+ years Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Aura, HTML5, JavaScript.
• 5+ years Service Cloud experience.
• 3+ years Salesforce Lightning including LWC.

Preferred Skills:

• Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II.
• Salesforce experience cloud certification.

Other Desired Qualifications:

• Use of Microsoft Azure DevOps or similar for requirements tracking, CI/CD, release management.

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