Senior Salesforce Apex Developer - Advanced Drainage Systems

Overview

At ADS, no idea is off limits, and we celebrate creativity and bold moves.  For more than 50 years ADS has been manufacturing a variety of innovative and environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional materials.  Headquartered in Hilliard, Ohio, we are a multi-billion dollar stormwater management company, manufacturing pipe and ancillary products. What does that mean? When it storms, we capture rain with our drain basins, convey it with pipe, store it using chambers and finally treat it with our water quality products, before safely returning water back to the environment. We handle, what we call, the entire lifecycle of a raindrop. Our products help prevent flooding, which increases quality of life for people living in large cities, suburbs, and rural towns. We also believe in creating a circular economy and are the largest plastic recycling company in North America. We use plastic shampoo and detergent bottles to create pipe, diverting over 500 million pounds of plastic from landfills every year. ADS operates a global network of over 60 manufacturing plants and 30 distribution centers. 

We have amazing stories to tell, and we need your help getting our story out there. To learn more about ADS, please visit our website at www.adspipe.com.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an Sr. APEX Salesforce Developer with 5+ years’ experience who will play a key role in maximizing the efficacy of the ADS Salesforce CRM Platform. This includes coding, unit testing, building applications, and creating and modifying existing applications. You will be responsible for the design, development, testing and implementation of customizations, applications, extensions and integrations. You will work with a team of engineers, salesforce administrators, architects and business analysts and collaborate with our Sales, Engineering and Marketing teams to translate business requirements into effective and scalable solutions within the CRM. Your contributions will directly impact the growth and future of Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS).

Areas of responsibility:

• Meet with IT and business leaders to determine business, functional and technical requirements and participate in application design, configuration, testing and deployment
• Manage new and existing APEX code changes, bug fixes and new development
• Perform configuration and customization of the Salesforce.com platform.
• Create and execute unit, integration and user acceptance test plans, including use cases and test data
• Gather, analyze and document functional and technical requirements for new projects, enhancements to existing solutions and production issues reported by end users
• Willing to be hands-on in producing tangible deliverables (requirements specifications, design deliverables, status reports, project plans)
• Utilize best practices to perform operational support, enhancements, bug fixes as needed to the Salesforce.com platform
• Proactively engage with salesforce architect(s) on continuous improvement efforts for application design, support, salesforce releases, and practice development efforts.
• Build Salesforce applications using Apex and Visualforce and leverage the full capabilities of the Salesforce platform to support the company’s programs.
• Create/modify existing controllers, controller extensions, and triggers across all platforms.
• Develop custom applications using Salesforce.com and integrating salesforce.com with other systems
• Lead customer-driven solutions utilizing strong technical design skills and strong working relationships with internal groups
• Guide users in formulating requirements, advise on alternatives and on the implications of new or revised processing analysis.
• Develop, document and enforce application standards and procedures

Requirements  

• 5+ years advanced experience with Apex, Visualforce and the Lightning Component Framework.
• 5+ years advanced knowledge of Salesforce permissions, roles, reports, dashboards, etc.
• Experience with APIs, AI, DPE and integrations.
• Ability to quickly identify root cause and recommend solutions and required next steps
• Experience working on an Agile development team
• Experience with Oracle, Mulesoft, and other tools that interface with Salesforce environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Willingness to travel as required

 Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or related technical field
• Force.com Certified Developer Certification required
• Apex and Visualforce development, design, configuration, testing and deployment of Salesforce.com solutions
• In-depth knowledge of APIs and experience building integrations with Salesforce.com.

• Working knowledge and experience with complex business systems integration as well as object-oriented design patterns and development
• Experience and expertise in core web technologies including HTML5, Javascript and jQuery
• Software engineering skills with Force.com Platform (Apex, VisualForce, SOQL, Unit Testing)
• A desire to work within a fast-paced, collaborative, and team-based support environment
• Must demonstrate a willingness to put in the extra effort (extended work hours, participate in events outside of standard working hours)
• Experience with ServiceNow (SNOW) application is a plus.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without limitation

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EEO Statement

ADS supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience, and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. ADS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.