Job Description:
The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) is seeking a Salesforce developer on a
contingent contractual hourly basis for an initial six-month basis with renewal options. This
position is assisting with the full development life-cycle from technical design to development,
testing, and deployment. The Salesforce Developer will be expected to work with the UMD
Salesforce project team and UMD clients to gather requirements and configure the Salesforce
application based on business needs with robust documentation. The best candidates will be a
highly technical professional experienced in web application development. Candidates should
have extensive development experience with the Salesforce platform. He/she will be comfortable
communicating and presenting to technical and non-technical audiences.
Salary commensurate with experience.

Essential Duties Summary:
● Build custom applications on the Force.com platform
● Leverage the Salesforce provided Application Programming Interface
● Understand business requirements and create functional prototypes to address the
business needs
● Follow established Salesforce development standards and best practices
● Create, manage, and document complex workflow rules, data validation, and system
triggers
● Maintain existing applications with an eye to continuous automation and improvement
● Assist in troubleshooting difficult technical issues as needed
● Participate in project team meetings and communicate effectively with business and
technical team members and stakeholders, including across team and organizational
boundaries – 10%
● Reporting project status as required – 5%
● Other duties as assigned – 5%

Minimum Qualifications:
● Bachelor’s degree
● Active Salesforce.com Developer Certification/s (Developer, Advanced Developer,
Admin)
● 3+ years of software development experience, ideally in a consulting environment
● 2+ years of experience developing on the Force.com platform
● Proficiency in programming using Salesforce SFDC, Force.com, Java, JavaScript, and
XML and their use in the development of CRM solutions
● Strong experience with configuration, customization, programming with APEX APIs,
APEX Triggers, and implementing new instances of SalesForce.com from scratch
● Ability to gather and translate business requirements into well-architected solutions that
best leverage the Salesforce.com platform
● Strong technical design skills and an ability to deliver customer driven solutions
● Deliver results on time and produce high quality deliverables
● Proficient on programming best practices, design patterns and design trade-offs on
internet and cloud based platform
● Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without limitation

 Preferences: 
● Master Degree in an IT-related discipline
● Experience working in higher education
● Project management experience
● Previous custom development experience in implementing other technologies

Interested candidates should please submit a cover letter, resume, and a list of three
references to umdsalesforce@gmail.com no later than April 20, 2017.

 

Job Description:

The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) is seeking a Salesforce Solution Architect on a contingent contractual hourly basis for an initial six-month basis with renewal options.  This position is assisting with developing the full application architecture and developing solutions that translates business requirements into functioning software systems, services and solutions. The Salesforce Solution Architect will be expected to work with the UMD Salesforce project team and UMD clients to gather requirements and develop the Salesforce solutions based on business needs with robust documentation. The Salesforce Solution Architect will require a strong knowledge of application development, database design, systems implementation and crafting technical solutions to complex business needs.  The best candidates will be a highly technical professional experienced in data architecture/database programming and web application development. Candidates should have extensive development experience with the Salesforce platform.

The Salesforce Solution Architect will be expected to engage with clients and crucially understanding key client needs.  He/she will be comfortable in crafting, proposing and presenting Cloud solutions at senior levels.   

Salary commensurate with experience.

Essential Duties Summary:

·       Collaborating with the client to understand their business objectives and shepherding them through the intricacies of the Salesforce platform.  Analyze and review of business, functional, and technical requirements

·       Design and create application architecture and develop solutions that achieve the customer’s objectives that are secure, scalable and maintainable; translating business requirements into systems, services, and solutions.  Implementing automation to improve processes

·       Participate in project team meetings and communicate effectively with business and technical team members and stakeholders, include across team and organizational boundaries – 10%

·        Reporting project status as required – 5%

·       Other duties as assigned – 5%

 

Minimum Qualifications:

·       Bachelor’s degree

·       Certified on one or more of the following: Force.com – Architect or Developer; additional Salesforce certifications preferred

·       Technical/Solution Architect with 10+ years’ experience including 4+ years architecting solutions on SFDC; advanced experience with Salesforce configuration and custom development

·       Full understanding Agile principles of project life cycle and development methodologies

·       Knowledgeable on all Salesforce offerings, sales cloud, service cloud, force.com, etc.

·       Strong customer interfacing skills - consulting/advisory capability to understand the customer business paradigm and provide value added solutions

·       SFDC CRM application (Sales and Service Cloud) capabilities and constraints Force.com development best practices

·       SOSL and SOQL, Salesforce.com's Web Services and APIs, and the SalesForce Security model

·       Process Analysis, Workflows, Page Layouts, Roles, Profiles, Reports & Dashboards

·       Architecting and building solutions within the SalesForce Portal

·       Integrating SFDC using Web Methods, Web services, SSO, etc.

·       Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without limitation

 

 Preferences: 

·       Master Degree in an IT-related discipline

·       Experience in higher education

·       Experience with broad, higher education-wide community/open source initiatives (such as Sakai, Kuali, uAchieve, CollegeNET, etc.)  

 

Interested candidates should please submit a cover letter, resume, and a list of three references to umdsalesforce@gmail.com no later than April 19, 2017.