Application Developer – Lead

Job Summary:

Become an integral part of a globally diverse team while working in an Industry leading organization where our employees come first. A global leader in talent solutions we are problem-solvers and servant leaders at our core. Through our network of specialized companies our mission is to create significant opportunities for people that shape our world.

Connected is a multi-year strategic program to digitally transform Sales Recruiting and Marketing capabilities for Allegis Group and its operating companies. The Salesforce Lead Application Developer role is a core member of the Connected team responsible for researching designing developing and optimizing innovative solutions on the Salesforce platform to enable critical business functions and deliver a great user experience.

The Lead Developer is responsible for:

• Developing new and enhancing existing solutions refactoring when needed to optimize implementation and reduce technical debt
• Creating proof-of-concepts and user interface prototypes.
• Defining team design and development standards and complying with platform standards to best leverage the Salesforce platform
• Provide technical leadership from development through execution to deliver high-quality products
• Coaching and mentoring development team members
• Engaging with other teams providing thought leadership and technical expertise within Connected and across the enterprise

Essential Functions:

• Leads design and architecture of complex salesforce solutions with the architecture design and product teams and ensuring they align with business goals and technical requirements
• Codes configures unit tests (coverage 80%) supports and continually refactors to improve the code base to enhance existing and new products within an Agile environment
• Oversees the development process of one 8 person team following SDLC practices ensuring timely delivery of features
• Solves complex technical challenges triages and resolves defects optimizes application performance supports functional/automation testing in and outside of team
• Sets coding standards and best practices for the development team including code quality providing thorough mentoring feedback and enforcement via PRs and other avenues
• Leads adoption of new technologies innovative solutions and design patterns that facilitate scalability and maintainability such as Service Layer Domain-Driven Design and Dependency Injection
• Communicates status issues risks escalations and resolutions to team members and stakeholders including complex concepts to technical business and leadership audiences

Minimum Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• 8 years of experience with (1) Salesforce Declarative development using Process Builder Workflows Flows Lightning App Builder (2) Salesforce platform programming Visualforce LWC APEX SOQL and SOSL
• 3 years of experience in Web Application Development using JavaScript Responsive CSS and HTML following Object-Oriented dev patterns like SOLID
• Knowledge and experience with Salesforce architecture and APIs Salesforce security configuration sharing rules and user management
• Experience developing integration solutions using MuleSoft REST APIs SOAP APIs oAuth Messaging Single Sign-On etc
• Thorough understanding of Salesforce development and deployment processes and tools git GitHub actions Salesforce DX and other DevOps and automation practices
• Nice to have: Experience developing in Salesforces Sales Service and Experience (Community) Clouds

Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to collaborate with User Experience (UX) Designers/Architects/Product to implement intuitive user interfaces and cross-functional teams to align development practices
• Experience prioritizing work and meeting deadlines including balancing multiple activities and responsibilities
• Anticipates and solves complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment identify and recommend solutions and build consensus within the development team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills tailoring material for technical business and leadership audiences
• Ability to demonstrate creative problem-solving taking initiative exhibiting flexibility good judgement and a solutions-oriented approach in a complex organizational ecosystem
• Understands issues related to enterprise scalability and reliability
• Ability to be professionally engaged present and on-camera using virtual face-to-face technologies (MS Teams Zoom chat etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates who are certified in the following areas:

• Certified Platform Developer I and II
• Advanced Administrator
• Service Cloud Consultant
• Platform App Builder
• Einstein Analytics and Discovery Consultant

Core Competencies:

• Building Relationships
• Develop People
• Lead Change
• Inspire Others
• Think Critically
• Communicate Clearly
• Create Accountability

Office Requirements:

• Required in office 2-3 days a week out of our headquarters in Hanover MD or offices in Jacksonville FL

Benefits Overview:

Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections plan or program terms. This role is eligible for the following:

• Medical dental & vision
• Hospital plans
• 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Company paid Basic Life and AD&D as well as voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Company paid Short and long-term disability
• Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Assistance
• Time Off/Leave (PTO Allegis Group Paid Family Leave Parental Leave)

Salary Range:

• $121582 - $182426
• The position is bonus-eligible

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors including qualifications skills relevant experience job knowledge geographic location internal equity and other pertinent job-related factors.