Design, develop, test, and maintain custom Salesforce solutions using Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning Web Components. Integrate Salesforce with external systems via APIs and ETL tools, resolve technical issues, collaborate with analysts and architects, and contribute to long-term platform roadmaps.
Demand Chain has built a company and culture that improves the lives of our team, clients, and the communities around us. We work hard to ensure our teammates feel engaged, motivated, challenged, with a sense of belonging, so they can thrive.
Defining traits of our culture include: passion, a sense of urgency, integrity, accountability, adaptability, ownership, joy, and optimism. We’re problem solvers, life-long learners, experts in our industry, slightly sarcastic, but always fun-loving.
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Demand Chain Salesforce Technical Consultant (Developer)
Who will be successful in this role?
- People with a high technical aptitude
- Natural Curiosity
- Problem solvers
- Analytical
- Innovative
- Continuous learner
- Motivated by excellence
What will I be doing?
Our Salesforce Senior Developers help drive implementation and maintenance of current and future systems for our clients.
- Ability to create custom developments that are highly functional, scalable, and easily maintained.
- Analyze, code, implement and test customized software applications built on Salesforce’s Force.com platform
- Strong in coding custom developed Salesforce functionality using Salesforce API, APEX, Visualforce, Lightning, and other tools that extend the product.
- The ability to promptly and complete resolution to issues, aligning both business and technical considerations, and participation in the execution of test plans, ensuring quality solutions are delivered.
- Work closely with our analysts and architects to help identify and plan long-term roadmaps based on these platforms.
- Be an expert in multiple pieces of these diverse platforms and effectively integrate the platforms with external systems through common integrations patterns using APIs, ETL tools and service technologies.
- We highly value Salesforce certifications and will support and encourage your continued development.
What technical skills/education do I need?
- 2 – 5+ years of software development experience, ideally in a consulting environment
- 2 – 5+ years of experience with Salesforce
- Strong technical design skills and an ability to deliver client driven solutions
- Motivated to learn new software as a service (SaaS) technologies
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal is required
- Development experience with JSP/ ASP, Java, HTML language is desired
- Development experience with Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning Web Components is required
- Salesforce Certifications (App Builder, Dev I, Dev II, Admin) preferred
- College degree preferred
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