Salesforce Developer - Remote (USA)

About the role

ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference. Our Health Engineering Systems (HES) team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success, and then make it happen.

Responsibilities

• Participating in the full application life cycle: architecture, design, development, testing and deployment
• Writing, testing, and deploying high-performance, reusable, and reliable Apex code
• Creating and customizing Lightning Components to enhance the user interface
• Designing data models and implementing Salesforce objects, including custom objects, fields, and relationships
• Performance engineering Salesforce applications using code optimization techniques, modular development practices, lazy loading, query analysis and optimization, caching solutions, and asynchronous workflows
• Contributing to options analyses, proof-of-concept implementations, and validations for proposed solutions
• Identifying risks, managing change, and designing cloud solutions that are efficient and scalable
• Gathering technical requirements and understanding user stories to translate dependencies to the technical delivery team
• Working closely with designers and engineers to gather and implement product, front-end, and back-end requirements
• Assisting users with troubleshooting and resolving problems of the platform
• Participating in Agile processes including daily standups, demos, retrospectives, and sprint planning
• Documenting development processes, technical designs, and other relevant information to ensure team coverage and code maintainability
• Staying up-to-date on Salesforce trends, releases, new features, and product roadmaps, including reviewing and signing off on product compatibility with upcoming releases
• Setting and enforcing Salesforce best practices and coding standards that promote code reusability, maintainability, and performance
• Implementing mature unit and integration testing to ensure systems work as intended
• Leading cross-team collaborations and disseminating information through knowledge sharing sessions, communities of practice, etc.
• Leading and enforcing an automation-first approach to reduce manual configurations within the Salesforce platform using custom Apex scripts, Robotic Process Automation, etc.
• Demonstrating strong proven analytical ability and ability to solve problems independently
• Staying abreast of new features and updates of technology

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of Salesforce development experience
• Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• Candidate must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US, and work must be performed in the US
• Must have lived in the US 3 full years out of the last 5 years

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with web programming including HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Experience of custom solutions on Salesforce platform working with Lightning Web Components, Apex Triggers, Apex Classes, Visualforce, SOQL
• Experience working with Copado CI/CD pipelines and knowledgeable on Copado best practices
• Experience building REST APIs for external systems integrations
• Experience with object-oriented programming design patterns and Salesforce data modeling best practices
• Experience working on/with an Agile and SAFe team
• Awareness of critical concepts in Security, DevSecOps and Agile principles
• Experience developing reporting and dashboards in Salesforce
• Experience on a call center setup within Salesforce
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to collaborate with team members and business stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working in multi-team development environments
• Experience in multi-cloud architectures and AWS cloud development is a plus
• Experience in civic technology and with government contracting is a plus
• Active Trailblazer account required
• One or more Salesforce developer certifications: Developer I, Developer II, Platform App Builder
• Copado Fundamentals I is a plus
• Copado Fundamentals II is a plus
• Experience in Health Cloud implementation and development is a plus

Job Location: This position requires that the job be performed in the United States. ICF does monitor employee work locations and blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses, and also prohibits personal VPN connections.