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Senior Salesforce Developer, Wharton Computing
Job Profile Title
Salesforce Developer Senior
Job Description Summary
Founded in 1881 as the world’s first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is shaping the future of business by incubating ideas, driving insights, and creating leaders who change the world. With campuses in Philadelphia and San Francisco, Wharton has over 850 staff, a faculty population of more than 235 renowned professors, and 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students. Each year, 13,000 professionals worldwide advance their careers through Wharton Executive Education’s individual, company-customized, and online programs. More than 104,000 Wharton alumni form a powerful global network of leaders who transform business every day. Wharton is home to a dynamic staff population representing a rich array of backgrounds, expertise, and cultures. To learn more, visit www.wharton.upenn.edu.
Wharton Computing seeks to fill the role of Senior Salesforce Developer for its growing and dynamic continuing education units. This position works closely with business units and academic departments and centers across all of Wharton.
Job Description
This position is responsible for identifying business requirements, requirements management, functional design, prototyping, process design, testing, training, defining support procedures, leading work streams and supporting Salesforce implementations that modernize and support solutions for key sales processes, opportunity management, quote-to-cash, and revenue management processes.
Lead the strategic planning and implementation of transformative technology projects, focusing on application-based tools within Salesforce and related technologies, such as AccountingSeed, Airtable, Docusign, and more.
Architect and configure cutting-edge technical solutions on the Salesforce platform, utilizing advanced components such as Flow, Lightning Web Components, and Apex code to capture and align data with stakeholders' overarching goals. Establish seamless integration with other information management systems to foster a unified technical landscape.
Lead meticulous security model design and user management practice, including overseeing the activation of new users, managing user profile, role, and permission set structure, and implementing sophisticated security measures like Salesforce Shield. Lead comprehensive system maintenance, upgrade, and documentation projects. Proactively identify strategic improvement opportunities through system…