Associate/Journey Salesforce Developer, Information Technology (REMOTE AVAILABLE)

Associate/Journey Salesforce Developer

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for an Associate/Journey Salesforce Developer, Information Technology (REMOTE AVAILABLE).

Role of the Position

The Office of Information Technology will consider candidates for either Associate/Journey Developer based on relevant skills and required experience.

Associate Salesforce Developer

The Associate Salesforce Developer (ASFD) will play a key role within the applications development team, which is responsible for a highly customized Salesforce instance. The ASFD will work with the Digital Enablement (DE) leadership team to ensure ideas of the business leaders are brought to reality. The ASFD will recommend ways to improve processes and system efficiencies and will work with other key staff members to ensure that team goals are attained. The person in this position will collaborate with internal teams to develop custom solutions to fit business goals across the entire campus. The incumbent will work with clients to translate business rules and functional specifications into requirements, before acting on those requirements to build solutions. This position is an entry-level contributor to department brainstorming and design meetings.

The ASFD is expected to:

• Work with supervision on a small development team that designs, develops, tests, and deploys software/web applications.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of software engineering concepts and be a contributor working on full lifecycle engineering efforts using Agile methodologies, object-oriented design, and accepted best practices.
• Partner with business representatives to define requirements and develop technical specifications in support of UNLV student, faculty, and staff services.
• Communicate effectively to ensure that all business requirements are being assessed and addressed to ensure development projects meet or exceed performance targets.
• Identify and contribute to solutions to correct software defects through unit, integration, system, and customer acceptance testing.
• Be confident and push back, when necessary, on ideas that will compromise the integrity of the data and Salesforce instance.
• Help to produce project documentation, including functional and technical designs, and end-user guides.
• Contribute to support cases that require problem solving for our diverse user base.

Journey Salesforce Developer

The Journey Salesforce Developer (JSFD) will play a contributing role within the applications development team, which is responsible for a highly customized Salesforce instance. The JSFD will contribute to the Digital Enablement (DE) leadership team to ensure ideas of the business leaders are brought to reality. The JSFD will proactively seek out ways to improve processes and system efficiencies and will work with other key staff members to ensure that team goals are attained. The person in this position will collaborate with internal teams to develop custom solutions to fit business goals across the entire campus. The incumbent will work with clients to translate business rules and functional specifications into requirements, before acting on those requirements to build solutions. This position is a main contributor to department brainstorming and design meetings.

The JSFD is expected to:

• Work with minimal supervision on a small development team that designs, develops, tests, and deploys software/web applications.
• Demonstrate an understanding of software engineering concepts and be responsible for working on full lifecycle engineering efforts using Agile methodologies, object-oriented design, and accepted best practices.
• Partner with business representatives to define requirements and develop technical specifications in support of UNLV student, faculty, and staff services.
• Communicate effectively to ensure that all business requirements are being assessed and addressed to ensure development projects meet or exceed performance targets.
• Identify and correct software defects through unit, integration, system, and customer acceptance testing.
• Be confident and push back, when necessary, on ideas that will compromise the integrity of the data and Salesforce instance.
• Produce project documentation, including functional and technical designs, and end-user guides.
• Own support cases that require advanced problem-solving for our diverse user base.

Customer Service Expectations: This position is responsible for maintaining a customer-focused approach in all duties, ensuring professional, timely, and effective interactions with internal and external stakeholders. To provide excellent service the employee will: listen to customers and understand their needs; help customers solve problems; demonstrate an eagerness to help; exhibit a professional disposition; be approachable, respectful, and team-oriented; take ownership of inquiries and assignments; provide updates for customers; and be familiar with the basic operations of the university in order to understand customer needs better.

Flexible Work – Remote Eligible

This position has flexible work scheduling options available including hybrid and remote anywhere in the United States based on acceptable performance and organizational needs in alignment with the UNLV Flexible Work Policy for Flexible Work Arrangements at UNLV.

Profile of the Office of Information Technology

With a focus on excellent customer service, UNLV Information Technology (UNLV IT) provides a full range of IT services, from leadership and enterprise solutions to training and support, for our students, faculty, and staff.

As a partner in teaching, learning, research, and administration at a Top-Tier university, we are seeking team members who value innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We believe that every person brings unique experiences and perspectives that strengthen our team and help us serve UNLV's broad community with empathy, which is a key to our success. Applicants seeking a values-driven environment that celebrates individuality and that are committed to service are highly encouraged to apply.

Minimum Qualifications

This position requires an earned Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university as recognized by the United States Department of Education and/or the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) along with the following:

Associate Salesforce Developer

Required: This role requires a minimum of 1 year of experience with Salesforce Ecosystem systems and best practices, 1 year of experience with application and software development (within or outside Salesforce ecosystem), and 1 year of experience with Apex and the Lightning Component Framework.

Preferred: Experience in a higher education environment, particularly at a 4-year, large public R1 university, is preferred, along with Salesforce Platform Developer I and Salesforce App Builder certifications. Some experience with or exposure to Salesforce Data 360 (formerly Data Cloud) is also desirable, including familiarity with foundational concepts such as data ingestion, data modeling, identity resolution, segmentation, profile unification, and activation.

Journey Salesforce Developer

Required: This role requires a minimum of 2+ years' experience with Salesforce Ecosystem systems and best practices, as well as a Salesforce App Builder Certification.

Preferred: Experience in a higher education environment, particularly at a 4-year, large public R1 university, along with one year of supervisory experience, is preferred. Demonstrated experience implementing or supporting Salesforce Data 360 (formerly Data Cloud), including data ingestion, modeling, identity resolution, segmentation, profile unification, and activation or integration with Salesforce applications, is also desired, or demonstrated experience implementing or supporting Salesforce Agentforce (generative AI) capabilities, including configuration, testing, and evaluation, and collaboration on governance and security controls.

Credentials must be obtained prior to the start of employment.

Developer Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

The incumbent must have specific knowledge, skills, and abilities in the following areas:

Associate Salesforce Developer

Knowledge

Required

• 1 year of relevant experience with application and software development (within or outside Salesforce ecosystem)
• Elemental experience with Salesforce Ecosystem systems and best practices.
• 1 year of experience with Apex, and the Lightning Component Framework.
• Basic experience developing Lightning Web Components.
• Basic experience working with Salesforce APIs and Web Services (REST, SOAP) integrations.
• Basic experience with Process Automation, Flow and other declarative Salesforce customization and configuration tools.
• Basic experience working using Agile methodologies.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Adequate troubleshooting skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication 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.
• Entry-level experience working with and writing intermediate to advanced queries in relational databases (SOQL, SQL, Postgres, Oracle, etc)

Preferred

• 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 manage projects.
• Entry-level experience