American Equity Investment Life Holding-posted 8 months ago
Full-time • Senior
West Des Moines, IA
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

The Senior Application Developer - Salesforce Platform Developer for the Salesforce technology team is responsible for partnering with team members and stakeholders to drive delivery of innovative solutions on the Salesforce platform and associated technologies. In this highly collaborative role, the incumbent will be involved in nearly every stage of the project development lifecycle to facilitate prototyping, research, planning and development. Functional responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to, coding, testing and debugging programs, maintaining and documenting program code and procedures as well as assisting in the review and analysis of defined system specifications under moderate supervision. Position sits in West Des Moines and will work an onsite hybrid schedule.

  • Ensures adherence to leading practices for configuration and custom development of Salesforce.
  • Leads the design of technical architecture solutions that may span multiple platforms and include integration and authentication across systems.
  • Collaborate with team and stakeholders to enable and facilitate any stage of the development process.
  • Works with management and executives to understand strategic alignment and goals.
  • Interfaces with team members and stakeholders to standardize and improve development and team processes.
  • Interfaces with management and business areas to plan project deliverables.
  • Advocates for and uses best practices and standards to prepare, code, debug, and test programs.
  • Seeks to understand and improve system interfaces while evaluating, creating and modifying new or existing programs.
  • Documents code changes and assists users in the development of procedures.
  • Researches and analyzes system solutions.
  • Effectively communicates and presents highly technical concepts in clear, concise manner to a variety of audiences.
  • Performs on-call responsibilities.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent from four-year college or technical school.
  • Four (4) or more years of related experience in a coding, testing and debugging environment.
  • A minimum of four (4) years in an application development role required.
  • Salesforce Platform Developer 1 certification.
  • Salesforce Platform Developer 2 certification (recommended).
  • Extensive knowledge and skills in the use of specific computer software and programming languages (Lightning App Development, Lightning Web Components, Data Modeling, Apex Triggers, Apex Rest API, Asynchronous Apex, SOQL, Lightning Flow, Data Management, Platform Events, Data Integration, Large Data Volumes, Informatica or ETL tool skills).
  • Experience with Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Data Cloud would be a plus.
  • Experience with Salesforce Devops Center (preferred), Code Builder, source control via git.
  • Knowledge of insurance industry practices, policies, and procedures.
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to interpret business implication of work.
  • Effective verbal and written communication, ability to effectively present information and interact in group situations.
  • Demonstrate a high level of accountability setting personal goals and working to align these with business activities.
  • Initiative and innovation for improving work processes.
  • Results driven with a sense of urgency that motivates others to achieve goals and improve performance.
  • Adaptable to change, delays and unexpected events.
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