United States onlyThe Senior Salesforce Developer will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing customized solutions within the Salesforce platform, leading a team with strong problem-solving and communication skills, ensuring effective platform maintenance and optimization, streamlining business processes, enhancing customer engagement, driving data-driven decision-making, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions aligned with business objectives.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the development and maintenance of custom Apex classes, triggers, and Visualforce pages
- Design and implement complex Salesforce Flows to automate business processes, ensuring seamless integration with other Salesforce features and third-party applications
- Develop and configure Experience Cloud sites to enhance user engagement, customizing the user interface to meet the specific needs of the organization
- Collaborate with educational stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications, supporting the implementation of Salesforce for student information systems, alumni management, and other education-related functions
- Provide training and support to end-users on the use of Salesforce Flows, optimizing existing Flows for efficiency and scalability
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to the professional development of the team
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or have equivalent experience
- Proficient in Apex coding with significant experience in developing and maintaining custom Apex classes, triggers, and Visualforce pages
- Experienced with Salesforce Flows, capable of designing and implementing complex Flows to automate business processes
- Skilled in developing and configuring Experience Cloud sites to enhance user engagement
- Familiar with higher education processes and requirements a plus
- Salesforce certified (e.g., Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II, Salesforce Certified Administrator) with additional advanced certifications preferred
- Knowledge of Lightning Web Components (LWC)
- Experience with Salesforce integration tools such as MuleSoft
- Familiarity with other Salesforce products and features like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Data Cloud and/or Marketing Cloud
- Proven leadership experience in technical projects or teams
- This is a remote position but may require travel to campus, if there is a business need.
Perks:
- Working for a stable and well-known University that values diversity and inclusion.
- Top choice medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Retirement plan matching contribution of 10%.
- Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.
- Generous paid time off, sick time, holidays, floating holidays, and more!
- Full-Time Benefits
Diversity and Inclusion Statement:
Guided by an ethic of Vincentian personalism and professionalism, DePaul compassionately upholds the dignity of all members of its diverse, multi-faith, and inclusive community. We seek to hire collaborative, open-minded, and dedicated professionals who are committed to advancing our university mission to making education accessible to all, with special attention to including underserved and underrepresented communities. Successful candidates thrive in an environment where ideas and perspectives representing a wide variety of cultures, backgrounds and experiences are welcome and supported.
Required Background Check:
Employment at DePaul University is contingent on passing a background check. Only final candidates who are extended an offer of employment will undergo a background check.Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse & Neglect:
Upon accepting an offer of employment with the university, you will also be required to sign an Acknowledgement of Mandated Reporter Status at the time of hire. A mandated reporter is required to make a report to the Illinois DCFS Hotline whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that a child known to them in their professional or official capacity may be abused or neglected. For more information, please visit the following pages:Illinois Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS)
Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act
DePaul University is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information or any other legally protected status, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local EEO laws.
