Lead Salesforce Developer (Sales Cloud, Apex)

About the role

This is a unique opportunity for a systematic, creative, and experienced individual to make a big impact on Gartner’s client experience as part of the Gartner Business and Technology Insights team. You will play a key role for a newly chartered program working to modernize Gartner’s CRM technology.

What you will do

• Lead the design and development of complex Salesforce solutions supporting enterprise modernization initiatives
• Translate business needs into scalable, secure technical designs across multiple Salesforce clouds and integrated systems
• Direct solution development, enforce architectural standards, and ensure adherence to security and governance requirements
• Guide integration patterns using APIs, events, and data pipelines
• Perform and participate in code reviews, peer inspections and technical design/specifications
• Perform hands-on development to build Salesforce solutions

What you will need

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field required.
• 8+ years’ experience in software development experience with Salesforce Force.com platform/Sales Cloud/Service Cloud implementations.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in UI development using Aura, Lightning Web Components, and Visualforce and leading a team of software engineers.
• Experience in developing applications on the Salesforce platform using Apex, controllers, triggers, Flows, etc.
• Experience in integrating Salesforce with external systems/applications using REST/SOAP APIs, SOSL and SOQL, Batch & Asynchronous processes, Platform Events, Change data capture etc.
• Strong Team Player, Critical Thinker, Analytical, and excellent problem-solving skills, verbal & communication skills are required.
• Ability to anticipate and produce design applications that work with governor limits and scale appropriately.
• Excellent software development and object-oriented design fundamentals

Nice to Have

• Certified Salesforce System Architect
• Certified Salesforce Application Architect
• Experience working with Jira, Git/SVN, Jenkins, bitbucket etc.
• Experience with AWS services
• Scrum software development methodology experience is required
• Thorough understanding of the Salesforce ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) including Salesforce deployment effectively using VS Code and Metadata API
• Experience in participating in architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

What you’ll receive

• Competitive compensation.
• Limitless growth and learning opportunities.
• A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.
• A chance to make an impact – your work will contribute directly to our strategy.
• Enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.
• 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
• Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
• 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
• Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
• Parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Gartner Gives Charity Match.
• And much more!