Sr. Web / Front-End Developer- SalesForce

Heartland Financial USA, Inc. is a growing dynamic organization with many locations offering uniquely different banking and financial solutions for businesses and personal clients. As a performance driven company, we strive to create a culture of excellence with high standards, and high values while providing outstanding growth and involvement opportunities for employees. Join a team that makes "Great Things Happen!"

The Senior Web/Front-End Developer is responsible for building a high quality, human-focused customer experience/portal that changes the way our customers and employees interact. The role translates designs into crisp code and configurations to build thoughtful experiences centered around our customers and employees. The position partners with functional teams to determine customer needs, brainstorm solutions, generate website mockups and prototypes, present these prototypes to stakeholders, and both develop and optimize live platforms.

Primary Responsibilities

• Creates and designs end user-focused experiences for our Digital Customer Portal as directed by Digital Technology Leadership.
• Analyzes product requirements and develops appropriate technical solutions to ensure successful implementation.
• Builds personalized and customized features for customers and internal users using modern technology, including HTTP, JavaScript, Angular, React, AJAX, HTML, CSS and/or Salesforce Lightning Components using Aura framework and Visualforce pages for use in Heartland public and private Communities, Service and Sales Clouds.
• Maintains and develops enterprise application integrations using middleware tools and/or custom-developed REST/SOAP endpoints.
• Implements workflow rules, validation rules, approval processes, reports and dashboards.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and advancements.
• Serves as subject matter expert for Web and/or Salesforce solution architecture including: configuration, development, integration and customization of complex environments.
• Develops code and configurations following Heartland and industry standard best practices that serve as the foundation of future projects.
• Deploys features up to team quality standards through automated testing, code reviews, QA and deployment best practices.
• Adheres to department standards for Change and Incident Management.
• Optimizes applications/sites to improve performance and efficiency.
• Authors technical documentation that provides reference when designing, building, deploying, supporting, maintaining applications.
• Provides feedback and suggests improvements to current and planned implementations based on experience and best practices.
• Participates with management in digital strategic planning to define the long-term technical direction of the Heartland digital platform.
• Mentors junior developers in best practices for design, development, deployment, maintenance and support.
• Completes annual E-Learning Plan and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) training as assigned and keeps up-to-date knowledge of BSA as it relates to the job function.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Management Responsibilities

• This job has no management responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Computer Science or
• related field; or equivalent experience required
• Web focus:
• 3-5 years working in front-end web development required
• Experience building functional and effective web-based platforms
• Fluency in JavaScript, HTML, frameworks such as Angular or React, APIs and CSS
• Experience with integrations with Web services and external systems using SOAP, WSDL, REST, SSL standards, security models and typical API client architecture
• SFDC focus:
• 3-5 years Salesforce Development experience in Communities, Service Cloud, Lightning, Visualforce, Apex, JavaScript and SOQL required
• Solid understanding of web technologies such as HTTP, JavaScript, Angular, React, AJAX, HTML and CSS
• Experience with integrations with Force.com Web services and external systems using SOAP, WSDL, REST, SSL standards, security models and typical API client architecture
• Basic understanding of admin activities like - user creation, role/profile set up, Security set up etc.
• Developer Certification (Platform Dev 1), Advanced Developer Certification (DEV 501 or Platform Dev 2) and/or Plus to have Advanced Admin (ADM301) or Consultant (Sales Cloud/Service Cloud) Certifications
• General:
• Strong understanding of agile software delivery
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Previous internal stakeholder and external client-facing application development experience
• User Experience design and implementation experience and training
• Experience building functional and effective Salesforce Lightning components leveraging Apex and Visualforce
• Experience with object-oriented programming languages, such as Java, C#, Python, or Ruby
• Strong technical portfolio that demonstrates a broad range of abilities, preferably in a Financial Services environment
• Working knowledge of SQL and understanding of relational databases

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