Senior Software Engineer (Salesforce)
Position Summary: The Illumina Digital Services (IDS) team is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Salesforce Engineer to support our Commercial Sales and Revenue Operations organization for project implementations and ongoing support of Illumina’s global Salesforce Sales Cloud and Conga system. This role will provide challenging and continuous innovation opportunities with deep technical knowledge of the system. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Salesforce engineer who wants to apply their skill set, learn, and grow in a very customer-centric but global organization.
Responsibilities:
· Collaborate with Illumina and external consulting resources on design, estimation, and delivery of new features.
· Design, develop, unit test, document, and deploy high quality business solutions on the Force.com platform, including writing triggers, developing lightning web components, visualforce pages in addition to managing the development lifecycle to ensure the delivery of highly secure solutions that are optimized for performance and built to scale.
· Collaborate with all Illumina and partner engineers/developers in creating and maintaining scalable and performant customer solutions.
· Own, manage, and maintain Salesforce and technology best practices.
· Make tactical and strategic decisions based on data, process, and system dependencies.
· Run experiments through POCs independently and present the outcome concisely.
· Should be a knowledge seeker and continue to provide guidance on emerging technologies, especially in the salesforce domain.
· Will continuously work on improving developer productivity and implement ideas to benefit the customers.
· Lead Rapid Prototyping and POCs to evaluate the feasibility of emerging Salesforce features (e.g., Data Cloud, Einstein AI) against business needs.
All listed tasks and responsibilities are deemed essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodation for additional tasks and responsibilities.
Requirements:
· Must have 5+ years of hands-on experience building complex solutions on the Salesforce platform.
· Must have a solid understanding of Sales cloud. Marketing and Service cloud knowledge is an advantage.
· Must have experience with apex, platform events, triggers, LWC, VF security model and declarative tools (Salesforce Flows) within Salesforce.
· Must have experience working with RESTful interfaces, patterns, and frameworks.
· Must be able to review code and recommend best practices for both apex and client-side scripting.
· Must have Experience with SFDX, Git-based version control, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Auto Rabit, Copado etc).
· Should have experience with improving Salesforce application performance.
· Should have experience with any language such as java or python.
· Should have experience with front end languages and backend tools for web engineering such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
· Should have Certified Salesforce Platform Developer II.
· Position requires being on call for critical support issues.
Education: BE/BTech./BCA/BS or higher degrees or equivalent practical experience
We are a company deeply rooted in belonging, promoting an inclusive environment where employees feel valued and empowered to contribute to our mission. Built on a strong foundation, Illumina has always prioritized openness, collaboration, and seeking alternative perspectives to propel innovation in genomics. We are proud to confirm a zero-net gap in pay, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race. We also have several Employee Resource Groups (ERG) that deliver career development experiences, increase cultural awareness, and offer opportunities to engage in social responsibility. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information. Illumina conducts background checks on applicants for whom a conditional offer of employment has been made. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable local, state, and federal laws. Background check results may potentially result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment. The background check process and any decisions made as a result shall be made in accordance with all applicable local, state, and federal laws. Illumina prohibits the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the application and interview process. If you require accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact [email protected]. To learn more, visit: https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf. The position will be posted until a final candidate is selected or the requisition has a sufficient number of qualified applicants. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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