Salesforce Developer & Administrator - Fully Remote

at  Allstate

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Salesforce Technical developer will be responsible for leading technical initiatives and aligning technical solutions to business needs. Ideal candidate should be passionate and self-directed with a strong working knowledge of Salesforce cloud platforms and integrations.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• 4-year bachelor’s degree (Preferred)
• 5+ years of hands-on development experience with Salesforce including but not limited to
• Sales, Service, Data cloud application configuration
• Force.com coding like Apex Classes and Triggers and experience in Lightning framework like Aura, LWC and LDS.
• Salesforce integration with external application using SOAP and REST API integration.
• Deployments using change sets and Salesforce tooling.
• Data migration solutions using salesforce web services, Data loader and DataLoader.io, configuring Data Cloud / Data Lake integration.
• Performance profiling, NFR documentation, Automated Regression suite maintenance

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS:

• Entrepreneurial and consultative mindset with a strong inclination towards action
• Experience operating in an environment driven by KPIs where you had the accountability to determine the best course of action to meet your goals.
• Ability to contribute towards data-driven decision making on complex and innovative concepts.
• Ability to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced at breaking down work for iterative and incremental delivery.
• Proficient at stakeholder management and transparent communication.
• Stays current with skills by continually seeking opportunities for learning and development within their respective discipline (s)
• Leverages awareness of upcoming Salesforce major release features to impact decisions and indicate requirements.
• Serves as a subject matter expert and can consult on issues.
• Technical understanding of business processes, integrating software applications, data analytics and AI
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, time management and organizational skills.

SKILLS

Apex Programming Language, Client Consulting, Client Counseling, Consulting Services, Data Migrations, Information Technology Consulting, RESTful APIs, Salesforce (Software), Salesforce API, Salesforce Health Cloud, Salesforce IoT Cloud, Salesforce Lightning, Salesforce Lightning Aura Components, Salesforce Lightning Web Components, Salesforce Platform, Salesforce Service Cloud, Salesforce System, SOAP APIs, SOAP Services, SOAP Web Services

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Must work in Eastern or Central time zones
• Strong hands-on development in application configuration, process automation like Flows and Lightning framework using Apex, Aura, LWC, Rest APIs
• Contribute to strategic vision, technical roadmap for Salesforce by working with Technical Architect and Product owners.
• Serve as technical bridge between business and technical stakeholders to develop a solution and architecture approach that supports business initiatives.
• Translate complex functional, technical, and business requirements into maintainable Salesforce solutions.
• Collaborate with neighboring value stream Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Technical Leads, developers for end-end solutions involving other customized solutions and shared enterprise systems.
• Actively lookout for and engage peers through issue resolution
• Establish and promote Salesforce best practices and tooling.
• Mentor junior team members to expand their knowledge salesforce best practices and new features.
• Develop high-performance, reusable, and reliable solutions.
• Own the end-to-end development lifecycle including structured code management, environment management, continuous integration & testing, production deployments and post-production business support.
• Support Delivery Managers via technical team member hiring recommendations and other reporting needs.
• Sustain collaboration and high-performance in the geographically distributed team (onsite/offshore)