Salesforce Sr Engineer - Marketing Technology

Thrivent•Minneapolis, MN

About The Position

As a Sr Engineer you will be considered a technical expert in one or more phases of application and/or systems engineering (Salesforce). This includes providing design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy and expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business. You will determine specifications, plan, design, and develop business critical software solutions, utilizing appropriate software engineering processes - either individually or in concert with product team.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
5+ years of salesforce development apex experience, lightning web components (LWCs), apex triggers, apex frameworks, REST APIs, third-party integrations with Salesforce, flows, SOQL, SOSL
Sound knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices
Proficiency in managing large-scale Salesforce projects
Ability to articulate and communicate complex Salesforce concepts to a wide audience (technical and non-technical)

Nice To Haves

Salesforce Certifications – Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I & II, Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Engagement Developer
Experience with implementing Distributed Marketing product within Salesforce Core CRM.

Responsibilities

Designing Solutions - Apply deep Salesforce technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy
Implementing Solutions - Member of team that can work independently, as well as collaboratively with team, in developing core software for the product that delivers outcomes.
Consistent and dependable in delivering core software that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, etc.
Learning and Applying New Techniques - Shares new Salesforce features, ideas and techniques with team; encourages junior engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job.
Collaborating within the Team - Participate in team’s collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work
Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns - Contribute to develop Salesforce engineering practices , templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team.
DevOps - Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software; Use data to measure progress
Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.
Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems.
Knowledge of Github, Github actions, feature branching, branch merging
Sound knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures
Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors - Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors
Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor
Coaching Engineers - Provide guidance to junior engineers to help them learn foundational software engineering skills
Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues
Provide trainings to the junior developers (trailhead modules, custom development plans, etc.)
Provide Salesforce domain expertise to junior engineers to help them learn/grow their skills and contribute as part of the team
Recruiting/Building Talent - Engage in the local Salesforce tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market
Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team
Contribute to the recruitment to define the structure of the interview process to hire the right talent to the team.