Salesforce Developer/Admin

InnoSoul•Denver, CO

9h•Remote

About The Position

The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) is seeking a Salesforce Developer to support the Accountability and Continuous Improvement Unit. This role involves modifying existing Salesforce applications, including VisualForce, Apex Class, Apex Controllers, Meta Data, and Objects. The developer will provide recommendations, documentation, and knowledge transfer to CDE staff. The ideal candidate will quickly familiarize themselves with the CDE Salesforce environment, understand project scope, communicate progress and challenges, and implement innovative solutions to address user challenges. The work includes designing, implementing, converting, and validating code for applications such as the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU), Unified Improvement Plan (UIP), and State Review Panel (SRP). The developer may also work with associated systems like Tableau and Oracle via Talend.

Requirements

Salesforce development Proficient (4-6 Years)
Database Oracle Proficient (4-6 Years)
Experience with Tableau, Oracle Talend, Visual force, Apex Class/Controllers, Meta Data, and Objects.
Ability to quickly become familiar with the CDE Salesforce environment.
Ability to understand the scope of the work CDE needs completed.
Ability to ask questions when necessary for clarity.
Ability to communicate progress and challenges.
Ability to implement innovative and/or creative technical solutions.
Ability to work closely and collaboratively with Department's Project Manager.
Ability to work closely and collaboratively with the Department's Information Management Services division (IMS) about Department coding standards, configuration management controls, quality assurance processes and information security.
Ability to collaborate with IMS's business intelligence unit for any planned transition of data to, storing of data within, or reporting of data from the Department's Data Warehouse.
Availability for meetings with CDE staff between 7am – 5pm MT.
Ability to coordinate and prioritize all work to ensure that all deliverables and deadlines are met.
Ability to employ an internal quality control process to ensure that all deliverables are complete, accurate, easy to understand, and of high quality.
Ability to provide deliverables that, at a minimum, are responsive to the specific requirements, organized into a logical order, contain no spelling or grammatical errors, formatted uniformly, and contain accurate information and correct calculations.
Ability to submit each Deliverable to the Department's Project Manager for review and approval.
Ability to retain all work papers generated for reference through the duration of the project and project acceptance.
Ability to participate in the Deliverable review and revision process, until the Department provides written acceptance of the Deliverable.
Ability to provide copies of any supporting documentation to the Department upon request and without charge.
Ability to respond to all telephone calls, voicemails and e-mail inquiries from the Department within one (1) business day.
Ability to enable all Contractor staff to exchange documents and electronic files with the Department staff in formats compatible with the Department's systems (Microsoft Office 2010 for PC).

Responsibilities

Support the modification of the unit's Salesforce applications, including alterations to existing VisualForce, Apex Class, Apex Controllers, Meta Data, and Objects.
Provide recommendations, documentation, and knowledge transfer to CDE staff.
Design, implement, convert, and validate code as a component of the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU), Unified Improvement Plan (UIP), and State Review Panel (SRP) applications.
Work with associated systems and programs like Tableau and Oracle via Talend.
Assist CDE in reviewing UIP and related custom objects within the Salesforce instance to determine opportunities for modification, code clean up, and inform structural design.
Design and implement modifications to the Unified Improvement Plan (UIP) object and associated custom objects, CDE Feedback object, Technical Assistance and associated custom objects, Accreditation and Request to Reconsider objects, and any other custom objects as directed and/or requested by CDE.
Create new custom objects related to tracking and storing State Board actions, based on design discussions with the Project Manager.
Design and implement modifications to existing VisualForce pages and Apex components related to the UIP and associated custom objects.
Validate and promote custom code into the production environment, including code coverage.
Submit detailed status reports or participate in weekly status meetings as required by the Department.
Attend required meetings with the required project stakeholders as directed by the Department.
Alert the Project Manager when issues or potential risks are encountered that will affect the project.
Provide documentation detailing the work provided at a level a Department employee can interpret and understand to support the work after the contract ends.