About the position Responsibilities

• Contribute to developing, designing, and configuring the UNLV Salesforce organization to effectively support business processes leveraging Salesforce best practices and alignment with overall sales and service requirements.
• Build Salesforce applications using Apex and Lightning Component Framework and leverage the full capabilities of the Salesforce platform to support the university's programs.
• Apply best practices and design patterns of best-of-breed applications developed on the Salesforce.com platform.
• Develop proofs of concept (POC) as needed, integrating new components with back-office systems during the design and requirements phase to evaluate products and integration strategies.
• Assist in creating testing and implementation plans, including user training and documentation.
• Remain current with Salesforce technologies and best practices.
• Assist in identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving defects encountered during different stages of project delivery, including during the deployment and implementation of the solution in production environments.
• Interact directly with customer, project team, and other stakeholders to ensure customer success.
• Own support cases that require advanced problem solving for our diverse user base.
• Assign day-to-day work for assigned Graduate Assistants.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university.
• For Associate Salesforce Developer: Minimum of 1 year experience with Salesforce Ecosystem systems and best practices, 1 year experience with application and software development, and 1 year of experience with Apex and the Lightning Component Framework.
• For Journey Salesforce Developer: Minimum of 2+ years experience with Salesforce Ecosystem systems and best practices and a Salesforce App Builder Certification.
• Basic understanding of software engineering concepts.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Adequate troubleshooting skills.
• Entry-level knowledge of all levels of the SDLC and all testing phases.
• Working knowledge of using modern IDEs (VSCode, IntelliJ) and Source Control tools (Git, SVN).
• Basic understanding of relational databases. Nice-to-haves
• Salesforce Platform Developer 1 and Salesforce App Builder certifications.
• Experience in a higher education environment, particularly in a 4-year, large public R1 university.
• Some experience with the greater Force.com developer toolkit (Visualforce, Force.com IDE, Workbench, Force.com Migration Tool and Metadata APIs).
• Basic knowledge of Agile Accelerator, Jira, or Confluence to project manage.
• Entry-level experience developing Lightning Components (Aura) and/or Lightning Web Components.
• Basic knowledge of and experience with CI/CD methodologies and specifically, the Gitlab/Salesforce CI/CD pipeline setup and configuration.
• Experience with the Education Data Architecture (EDA) and Student Success Hub (SSH) managed Salesforce packages and/or Salesforce Education Cloud.

Benefits

• Comprehensive retirement plan with 100% match.
• Flexible work schedule (subject to approval).
• Competitive total rewards package including paid time off, sick leave, and holidays.
• Excellent health insurance including medical, dental and vision.
• Comprehensive retirement plans and voluntary benefits programs.
• No state income tax for Nevada Residents.
• Tuition discounts at Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) schools.
• Tuition discounts for spouses, domestic partners, and dependents.
• Employee recognition and appreciation programs.
• Connect with colleagues with shared interests.
• Personal and professional development opportunities.
• UNLV athletics ticket discounts.
• Statewide employee purchase program discounts.
• RebelCard discounts on and off campus.
• Wellness programming for all UNLV faculty and staff at no cost.
• A comprehensive onboarding program, Rebels: Onboard.
• Opportunity for career advancements to leadership roles.

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