Lead Salesforce Developer, Mortgage

Company: Flagstar Bank
Location: Troy
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

Job Description Summary Our Lead Salesforce Developer is responsible for leading a team of IT professionals in understanding and supporting the business of Flagstar Bank through the design, development and implementation of applications, application enhancements and new capabilities on the Salesforce platform. They are expected to provide technical leadership in every stage of the development lifecycle, from analysis and design to development, configuration, testing, release and maintenance while adhering to current System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes. They will also work closely with various customers including their immediate project teams, business domain experts and other technical staff members. They are accountable for the mentoring, coaching, and development of their team.

• Technical Leadership - Leads and manages a technical team and acts as the primary point of contact for all technical deliverables
• Solution Design -Translates business and technical requirements into solution designs that satisfy the business needs and comply with approved standards. Reviews functional specifications, creates detailed technical design and technical specifications.
• Code Development - Ensures development activities are aligned with scope, schedule, priority and business objectives. Oversees code development and unit and performance testing activities. Develops and enhances application code.
• Testing - Leads validation efforts by performing and/or assisting others in validating the solution performs as expected. This includes and is not limited to system integration testing, performance testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing and defect remediation. Meets or exceeds all operational readiness requirements (e.g., operations engineering, performance, and risk management).
• Mentoring, coaching, and developing staff and reviews work products from team and vendor consultants.
• Ensures compliance with applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. Completes all required compliance training. Maintains knowledge of and adhere to Flagstar's internal compliance policies and procedures. Takes responsibility to keep up to date with changing regulations and policies. Job Requirements:
  • High School Diploma, GED, or foreign equivalent required.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, engineering, math or related field plus 10 years of IT development experience preferred, or 15 years of comparable work experience required.
  • 5+ years developing on the Salesforce platform required.
  • Salesforce Platform Developer I or II certification preferred.
  • 10 years of developer experience (Finance/Lending industry experience a plus) or 15 years of comparable work experience required.
  • 5 years of experience designing and building technical solutions on the Salesforce platform.
  • 5 years of experience with various Software Development Life Cycle methods such as Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, etc.
  • 5 years of experience with web services, executing calls and interpreting responses (SOAP or REST).
  • 7 years of experience leading others either formally or informally.
  • Experience working within large, cross-functional teams with ability to collaborate with customers, analysts, developers, and quality assurance staff.
  • Excellent communicator - Ability to communicate verbally and in technical writing to all levels of the organization in a proactive, contextually appropriate manner.
  • Proven ability to establish a high level of trust and confidence in both the business and IT communities.
  • Exceptional ability in interpreting customer business needs and translating them into application and operational requirements.
  • Exceptional problem solving and analytic skills with proven strength in applying root cause analysis.
  • Ability to prioritize work by dividing time, attention and effort between project workload and support tasks.
  • Experience building applications in a managed-service environment with engineering constraints.
  • Strong knowledge of Salesforce Objects and Data Model.
  • Hands on experience in object oriented language is preferred - Understanding of front end web development languages, database technologies and backend development languages.
  • Proven ability to design and build technical solutions on the Salesforce platform, following and teaching best practices for configuration and code.
  • Proven ability to quickly understand an existing Salesforce solution, improving the code you interact with, following and teaching clean code principles.
  • Proficiency in test-driven development; building, writing and executing unit Apex test methods with proper assertions.
  • Strong experience with web services, executing calls and interpreting responses (SOAP and REST).
  • Strong experience with source control management tools, GIT preferred.
  • Experience with incident management and ability to participate in off-hours support as required.
  • Adaptable to change in process, procedure and priorities.
  • Excellent organizational skills. For Internal use only: Job Band D

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