Senior Salesforce Developer

Senior Salesforce Developer

Job ID: IN-IDOH Senior Salesforce Developer (812873)
Contract: 1 Year
Location: Indianapolis, IN – Hybrid for local candidates / Remote for non-local candidates
Worksite: 100 N Senate Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46204
Interview: Webcam Only

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Salesforce Developer to support the engineering, maintenance, optimization, and enhancement of a large-scale Salesforce platform supporting statewide public health programs.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on Salesforce development experience, architectural thinking, integration expertise, and experience supporting enterprise or mission-critical platforms.

Key ResponsibilitiesSalesforce Application Support & Maintenance

• Provide expert-level troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and resolution of Salesforce platform issues.
• Support Salesforce Core, Experience Cloud, integrations, and custom components.
• Monitor jobs, logs, APIs, errors, governor limits, and overall platform performance.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, SOPs, data dictionaries, workflow inventories, and system documentation.
• Perform proactive maintenance, refactoring, performance tuning, technical debt reduction, and security remediation.

Development & Modernization

• Design and develop scalable Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Salesforce Flows, permission models, and data structures.
• Lead code reviews and enforce secure coding standards.
• Maintain high test coverage and Salesforce development best practices.
• Manage releases across Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, and Production environments.
• Use CI/CD pipelines and version control.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, maintainable, and compliant technical solutions.

Integration & Interoperability

• Design, develop, support, and optimize API-based integrations.
• Work with MuleSoft or similar middleware technologies.
• Ensure secure and reliable data exchange between Salesforce and external systems.
• Monitor API health, throughput, rate limits, and integration errors.
• Implement resilience strategies such as retries, queueing, and payload optimization.
• Maintain integration mappings, interface specifications, and versioning documentation.

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Ensure development activities comply with cybersecurity and secure SDLC requirements.
• Implement and maintain Salesforce security controls, including Field Audit Trail, Event Monitoring, Platform Encryption, MFA, least-privilege access, and auditing.
• Support vulnerability remediation and impact assessments.
• Participate in architectural and security reviews.
• Maintain compliance across environment management, data access, logging, encryption, and change control.

Enterprise Salesforce Operations

• Manage Salesforce sandbox strategy and refresh schedules.
• Maintain alignment across development and deployment environments.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, observability dashboards, and performance analytics.
• Support backup and restore strategies.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning and failover validation.
• Conduct platform health reviews and recommend improvements for stability, scalability, and performance.

Training & Knowledge Transfer

• Develop training programs covering Salesforce administration, configuration, development, and troubleshooting.
• Create architecture diagrams, workflow maps, deployment guides, operational procedures, and technical standards.
• Mentor internal Salesforce staff.
• Support knowledge transfer and transition of ongoing platform ownership.
• Build sustainable internal Salesforce technical capabilities.

Salesforce Licensing & Platform Strategy

• Maintain strong knowledge of Salesforce licensing models and entitlements.
• Understand Salesforce Core licenses, Experience Cloud licenses, API usage, feature tiers, and associated costs.
• Review license assignments and recommend opportunities to optimize cost and functionality.
• Forecast licensing requirements based on user growth, new modules, and future integrations.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience as a Senior Salesforce Developer.
• Advanced Salesforce development and architecture experience.
• Strong Apex development experience.
• Strong Lightning Web Components (LWC) experience.
• Experience with Salesforce Flows.
• Experience with Salesforce security, permissions, and access models.
• Enterprise-scale Salesforce platform experience.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience with API-based integrations.
• Experience with MuleSoft or similar middleware.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control.
• Experience working across Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, and Production environments.
• Knowledge of Salesforce security, compliance, encryption, MFA, auditing, and governance.
• Experience with performance monitoring and platform optimization.
• Strong technical documentation and knowledge-transfer skills.
• Ability to mentor and train internal technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting public sector, healthcare, or public health Salesforce environments.
• Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud.
• Enterprise integration architecture experience.
• Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Salesforce licensing strategy and optimization experience.
• Experience supporting mission-critical enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture and platform modernization.

Work Location

Indianapolis, IN

• Local candidates: Hybrid schedule preferred
• Non-local candidates: Remote consideration
• Preference will be given to candidates who can work a hybrid schedule in Indianapolis.

Contract Duration

1 Year

Interview

Webcam Only

How to Apply

Qualified candidates with strong Salesforce development, architecture, integration, security, and enterprise platform experience are encouraged to apply.

Pay: $33.99 - $63.49 per hour

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Indianapolis, IN 46204