Senior Salesforce Developer

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

As a Salesforce Senior Developer you will work as a part of an agile team to deliver top-class applications on the Salesforce platform and contribute to the development of the Publicis Sapient Salesforce practice.

Your Impact

Your impact will be threefold:

Providing technical leadership and guidance in a development team

• Be responsible for the robustness, scalability and reusability of the code developed by the team
• Run technical workshops and ensure technical requirements are properly identified and gathered
• Estimate, design and oversee large development stories, complex integrations and epics
• Oversee the assignment of stories and tasks within the team
• Ensure stories, epics, estimates and development activities are properly tracked by the team
• Proactively identify, address and mitigate technical risks and impediments
• Enforce technical standards, training and coaching developers and other team members
• Discuss technical solutions and complex integrations with key project stakeholders
• Provide technical and design guidance for more complex solutions
• Review and evaluate the code quality amongst all developers

Guaranteeing technical health, robust software development lifecycle and overall technical success of a solution

• Assess and monitor the overall health of an implementation
• Monitor progress, velocity, regressions and other quality metrics for the development team
• Identify technical and resource risks factors and alert the Technical Lead and the Project Manager
• Ensure code review take place regularly as part of the development lifecycle
• Make sure code and configuration items are tracked in the Version Control System
• Plan and oversee releases to production environments anticipating, identifying and mitigating deployment risks
• Orchestrate deployment activities across all the parties involved (client, other vendors, etc)
• Ensure effective Continuous Integration is in place and monitor build automation on a daily basis
• Take responsibility for clear, concise and comprehensive technical documentation for code, architecture and integrations
• Discuss and document lessons learnt, taking the relevant actions to drive continuous improvement within the team

Contributing to the development practice

• Document lessons learnt to drive continuous improvement within the practice
• Participate in the hiring process for selecting the best developers to join the company
• Contribute to Sapient i7 Technical Standards
• Participate in the internal training and onboarding program by contributing and delivering technical training

Your skills & experience

• Salesforce Certified Platform Developer 1 and 2
• Extensive consultancy and professional software development experience
• Experienced with both agile and waterfall development projects

Behavioural Skills

• Attention to detail
• Coaching/mentoring
• Client focus and a Team player
• Drive and passion
• Self-challenging and leadership mindset

Technical Skills

• Apex, Visualforce, SOQL, SOSL
• HTML, Javascript, jQuery, AngularJS or other Javascript MVC frameworks
• XML, JSON, Web Services, REST
• Familiar with middleware and enterprise integration patterns
• Data modelling and relational databases
• Good knowledge of git or mercurial
• Good knowledge of object-oriented design and design patterns
• Familiar with branching strategies and general source control effectiveness
• Good knowledge of software development lifecycle and continuous integration
• Comprehensive knowledge of UML
• Familiar with Atlassian suite (Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Confluence)

Benefits of Working Here:

•Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued

•16paid holidays throughout the year

•Generous parental leave and new parent transition program

•Tuition reimbursement

•Corporate gift matching program

•Training on Salesforce platform

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.