Salesforce Developer

Position: Salesforce Developer

Duration: 6 Months with Extension

Location: Saint Paul Minnesota (Hybrid)

To fully leverage the Salesforce service the term Salesforce refers to many different aspects of a complex set of products. Depending on the business role and technical expertise Salesforce may be viewed as any of the following:

• Website building tool
• Customer relationship management system
• Business process re-engineering platform
• Software development toolkit

Some of the use cases and business applications that have been developed by the Salesforce CoE include the following:

• Professional & Occupational Licensing
• Customer Relationship Management
• Enforcements and Inspections
• Technical Certifications
• Inventory Management
• Case Management

Resource Categories and Skills:

The resource will not be evaluated as part of the vendor selection process but their qualifications will be reviewed prior to work starting on the project. The State reserves the right to reject any resource who does not meet qualifications and to require a different resource be brought in who does meet the qualifications.

Experience /Duties Required

• Collaborate with business analysts and developers to produce software designs
• Formulate program specifications and basic prototypes
• Transform software designs and specifications into high functioning code in the appropriate language
• Integrate individual software solutions to higher level systems
• Use web-based tools to create and advance applications
• Test code to ensure it produces the desirable results and perform debugging when necessary
• Perform upgrades to make software and systems more secure and efficient
• Provide application support and assistance on resolution of issues
• Collaborate with technical writers to create documentation for user support
• Attend and participate in meetings and working sessions
• Create Complex workflows
• Create triggers
• Apex development
• Development of visualforce pages and lightning components
• Provide new API development as defined by the project team and assigned by project leads
• Produce technical documentation
• Complete assigned duties according to project plans and schedules
• Document assessment of risks associated with the migration based on developed and configured elements
• Provide testing and implementing of Apex and Salesforce developed and configured elements
• Migration applications from development to QA to Production environments
• Support Quality Assurance goals through writing regression test scripts and/or programming as necessary
• Provide support of and participation in troubleshooting and resolving issues that arise
• Plan and execute mitigation strategies for project risks
• Adhere to MNIT time reporting and time management standards
• Adhere to documented project team rules and norms
• Provide knowledge transfer

Qualifications

• Five (5) years experience in Developer/Programmer role
• Two (2) engagements lasting more than six (6) months in Developer/Programmer role using Salesforce
• Four (4) years experience with Apex Visualforce development in Salesforce
• Four (4) years experience with the Salesforce Platform and performing configuration
• Three (3) years experience developing APIs
• Proven experience as a programmer or relevant role
• Delivery of projects using the Agile SCRUM methodology
• Detail-oriented and excellent concentration ability
• An analytical mindset and critical thinking
• Demonstrable ability to discover and fix errors in code
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work independently and in team settings