Senior Salesforce Developer

Company Description:

AB is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional clients, individuals, and private clients in major markets around the world. AB employs more than 500 investment professionals with expertise in growth equities, value equities, fixed income securities, blend strategies, and alternative investments, and, through its subsidiaries and joint ventures, operates in more than 20 countries. AB's research disciplines include fundamental research, quantitative research, economic research, and currency forecasting capabilities. Through its integrated global platform, AB is well-positioned to tailor investment solutions for its clients. AB also offers independent research, portfolio strategy and brokerage-related services to institutional investors.

IT Group Description:

Client Group Technology provides development, configuration, testing, project management, and business analyst support for the Client Group's applications and externally facing websites. The Client Group is comprised of Retail and Institutional Sales, Client Services, Business Development Groups, Marketing, with over 500 staff globally, concentrated in the US, Europe, Asia-ex Japan, Australia, and Japan.

IT Job Description:

We are seeking a Nashville or London based Senior Salesforce Developer to join our CRM Team in Client Group Technology.

Describe the role:

Develop and configure our CRM platform providing strategic enhancements.

Describe the applications and business or enterprise functions the role supports:

This role will be in support of a broad revamping of our data and toolsets for the Client Group that needs to take place to fuel our future growth globally across channels. This includes the improving the data structures, bringing together client interactions, sales, content, readership, and third-party data sets, to enable more nimble, effective, and predictive business intelligence, a re-organization and simplification of our CRM, and the build out of new front-end tools for our global Sales teams. This role will be key for continuing to deliver changes for our Salesforce.com instance and associated applications.

The key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Key job responsibilities include leading full development lifecycle and production support for CRM platform.

• Collaborate with our internal and external technology and business partners to implement product changes.
• Hands-on design and development (front-end and server-side development), hands-on database development including schema design and business logic implementation, working closely with other developers to ensure all code is consistent with architectural standards and design.
• Produce technical specification and design documents as required.
• Develop end to end Salesforce solutions
• Automate business processes using Salesforce automation tools
• Build integrations between Salesforce and external applications
• Migrate changes from development to test to production environment using CI/CD
• Perform data updates / migration using Data Loader and other similar tools
• Participate in daily scrum meetings
• Analyze assign user stories and translate to technical solutions
• Adhere to defined coding standards
• Perform independent code reviews and write unit/integration test cases
• Ability to effectively debug and resolve issues
• Assist in writing technical approach and design
• Able to perform at leadership role on smaller projects

What makes this role unique or interesting (if applicable)?

The role will provide a wide variety of experiences and exposures, across different business units, processes, and technology.

Job Qualifications (The ideal candidate should have the following):

Qualifications, Experience, Education:

• 6 - 9 years of total IT experience
• 5+ years of Salesforce project development experience
• Experience with Force.com custom development, SOAP and REST APIs
• Experience with Process builders and flow builder.
• Experience integrating Salesforce.com with enterprise-level applications though all available integration channels as well as Salesforce-to-Salesforce integrations
• Experience with CI/CD and managing deployments.
• Experience with DevOps Tools like GIT, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, JIRA etc.
• Experience in working with business partners and understand requirements.
• Experience with leading small teams/projects independently.
• Experience with ETL tools a plus
• Knowledge of Product Development Lifecycle
• Ability to work collaboratively in a creative
• Strong relational database design/development skills
• Hands-on experience in Web technologies (HTML, CSS, Java, Javascript, C#, AJAX, etc.) is a plus
• Track record of working on complex projects under aggressive deadlines
• Experience developing and delivering enterprise class solutions to real customer problems, preferably with an emphasis on Sales, Client Service, and/or Marketing issues
• Excellent problem solving, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics

Skills:

• Salesforce Administration and Development
• Data analysis and reconciliations
• Strong Excel capabilities
• Familiarity with SQL, databases
• Web technologies and Scripting

Special Knowledge (if applicable):

• Salesforce CRM Experience is a must
• Certified Platform Developer I, Certified Platform Developer II Preferred

People of color, women, and those who identify as LGBTQ people are encouraged to apply. AB does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status or any other basis that is prohibited by applicable law. AB's policies, as well as practices, seek to ensure that employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants, based solely on job-related criteria. #LI-SM1
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