Transamerica has been helping people feel better about the future for more than 100 years, and we’re proud of the trust we’ve earned. But we believe our responsibility goes beyond insurance, investments, and retirement accounts. We’re also in the business of helping people improve their financial and personal well-being, so they can add more years to their lives, and more life to their years. The Lead Salesforce Software Engineer is focused on the design and development of web and cloud technologies to support an agile digital business. Helps define web and cloud strategies, grow capabilities, and develops enterprise-wide solutions by providing technology leadership, insight on new developments within the application solution space, and guidance in design, framework, and platform decisions. The Specialist Software Engineer is focused on the design and development of web and cloud technologies to support an agile digital business. Helps define web and cloud strategies, grow capabilities, and develops enterprise-wide solutions by providing technology leadership, insight on new developments within the application solution space, and guidance in design, framework, and platform decisions.

Responsibilities 

  • Lead analysis and complex architectural design across platforms toward the development of end-to-end solutions; translate architectural guidance into detailed technical design.   
  •  Lead committees or projects to help define organization-wide standards, processes, and guidelines. 
  • Work collaboratively with other development staff, including contract and offshore Software Engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment. 
  • Code, test, identify, implement, and document solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies. 
  • Perform design and analysis for deliverables. Lead large team design sessions. 
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies; 
  • Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts. 
  • Utilize third-party software development frameworks, open-source libraries, and APIs to rapidly develop basic application solutions.   
  • Lead web development staff, including contract and off-shore developers; may have supervisory responsibility over employees. 
  • Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables. 
  • Prepare presentations and lead development meetings. 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent experience 
  • Six years of hands-on Salesforce coding and configuration experience developing Salesforce customizations (Apex/Visual Force), integrations, and data migrations 
  • Two years of experience creating technical architecture for complex Salesforce implementations 
  • Expertise in Salesforce Sales and/or Service Cloud.  
  • Expertise in integrating Salesforce with other systems (both on-premises as well as external) 
  • Expertise in Salesforce automations (flows, process builders etc) 
  • Experience with Lightning Web Components 
  • Expertise in build and deployment tools [including CI/CD tools] - (VS Code, Git/Bitbucket, Jenkins, Copado, AutoRabit etc) 
  • Advanced understanding of software development and research tools 
  • Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus 
  • Ability to work as part of a team and independently 
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills 
  • Technical communication skills and the ability to present information to all levels of the organization 
  • Problem-solving and technical communication skills 
  • Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree 
  • Five years of experience with integration and service frameworks (e.g. API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger API, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices) 
  • Expertise with Microservices and REST based API development (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework,  IIS, Swagger, Odata, .NET API 2, .NET API Core, AutoMapper) 
  • One or more Salesforce certifications (Salesforce Developer I and II preferred)
  • Knowledge of the financial services industry 
  • Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud 
  • Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud 
  • Experience with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud 

**Please note that the compensation information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to applicable pay transparency and compensation posting laws. It is estimated based on what a successful candidate might be paid in certain Company locations.**

Compensation:

The US salary for this position generally ranges between $100,000 - $140,000 annually. This range is an estimate, based on potential employee qualifications and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally in the US, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

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