Salesforce Developer

Company: University of Chicago Medical Center
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 22, 2025

Job Description:

Job DescriptionBe a part of a world-class academic healthcare system at UChicago Medicine as a Salesforce Developer. This position will be primarily a work from home opportunity with the requirement to come onsite as needed. You will need to be based in the greater Chicagoland area.The Salesforce Developer supports a work stream in a complex Academic Medical Center environment and will execute key deliverables to achieve the project and ongoing enterprise vision. The developer is a hands-on Salesforce engineer with deep technical expertise and strong interpersonal skills. The developer will work closely with the business to design, develop, and deploy. You will be part of a team that is driving digital transformation at a leading Academic Medical Center in a greenfield environment. This is a unique opportunity to join the UCM team and create unique solutions in the provider technology landscape that will significantly increase patient access to world class healthcare.Essential Job Functions

• Lead technical design; architect and document technical solutions aligned with key business objectives; help identify gaps between current and desired states.
• Develop solutions within the Salesforce platform to support critical business functions and meet business objectives using both configuration and development.
• Leverage Salesforce's out-of-the box functionality and identify appropriate opportunities to customize. Collaborate with other product teams to integrate data and functionality to advance the organization's strategic direction.
• Participate in the full software development life cycle: technical design, development, testing, deployment, and production solution.
• Understand and use Salesforce APIs to integrate with external systems and data.
• Participate in new initiatives/projects discussions with business and develop technical solutions based on discussions.
• Actively engage with technical, product, and business teams. Collaborate with appropriate technology partners to implement enhancements and improvements that solve business problems.
• Manage the daily support and maintenance of an internal Salesforce instance and conduct long-term improvements to operations.
• Provide system administration support for the Salesforce environment, especially related to customized applications, user permissions, security settings, custom objects, and workflow.
• Assist business users as needed during UAT, troubleshooting and resolving implementation and integration issues.
• Own technical and functional specifications, maintain documentation.
• Establish and maintain best practice standards on documentation and code structures.
• Respond to application issues.
• Track and manage tickets.
• Engage with IT Leadership on managing any managed services agreements.
• Escalate when necessary.Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree.
• 5-10 years of related software development experience.
• Strong practical deployment knowledge of Salesforce configurations.
• 5+ years' experience working with an RDBMS such as MySQL, Oracle, or MS SQL Server.
• 5+ years' experience with HTML, XML, CSS and JavaScript.
• 2+ years' experience with SOAP APIs, REST APIs and integration techniques.
• 2+ years' experience in Salesforce Lightning, APEX programming, LWC, APIs, and SOQL.
• Familiarity with security standards such as TLS, SSL, SSO and data encryption. Hands-on experience with customization (Apex Triggers, Classes & Visual Force), configuration (Formulas, Workflows, Approval processes, Custom objects and fields, Sharing Rules, Page layouts, Record types, Permission Sets, Reports and Dashboards).
• Experience in developing integrating solutions using MS Tools, Salesforce.com APIs, and 3rd party APIs.
• Proficient in working with MS SQL databases.Preferred Qualifications
• Platform Developer I or II, and/or Administrator certification.
• Health Cloud implementation & development experience is desirable.Position Details
• Job Type/FTE: Full-Time.
• Shift: Days.
• Job Location: Flexible (Darien and Burr Ridge).
• Unit/Department: IT Enterprise Architecture.
• CBA Code: Non-Union.
  #J-18808-Ljbffr

Keywords: University of Chicago Medical Center, Crystal Lake , Salesforce Developer, IT / Software / Systems , Chicago, Illinois