Salesforce Lightning Developer

804 days ago
  • Location

    Arlington, Virginia, United States

  • Role

    Developer

  • Contract

    Permanent

  • Salary

    $72,654 - $174,224

Ready to fast-track your Salesforce career?

Join the largest team of Salesforce certified professionals in the industry and champion innovation, leverage deep and innovative Salesforce expertise and pioneer solutions to help transform the world’s leading organizations and governments.

Ready to solve complex problems? Advance your skills? Deliver next-generation Salesforce solutions?

Now is the perfect time for you to join the Accenture Salesforce team, where you will:

  • Expand your experience with over 200 intelligent tools across all 12 Salesforce-recognized industries.

  • Join in the development and implementation of new Salesforce-based solutions.

  • Benefit from our long-standing partnership with Salesforce to access the coolest Salesforce technologies, like Lightning, Einstein, and Bolt, so you can put them to meaningful applications at scale.

  • Join more than 11,800 skilled Salesforce professionals, collaborating across multiple areas to drive enterprise-wide transformational projects on a global scale.

  • Build new skills and strengthen your expertise with unparalleled training and support—whether you are taking the more than 4,200 unique Salesforce certifications or working towards your Certified Technical Architect (CTA) certification.

Join Accenture and be empowered with innovative tools, continuous learning, and a global community.

Job Description:


The Salesforce Technical Consultant / Developer (Lightning) is a key member of our Delivery organization in the US. In addition to being responsible for developing high performing solutions on the Salesforce platform, the Technical Consultant will provide insight in advanced business analysis, conduct needs assessments, configure apps as required, and assist in key functions involving client and staff development, training, and on-going client support.


Our clients are world leading organizations that are or have selected Salesforce platform to advance their business and the Consultant is an essential team member inside the organization.

For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only. When/if travel resumes, travel for this role is expected to be 25%. or less.


Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from several infectious disease experts.

Typical Day Snapshot - Salesforce Technical Consultant / Developer (Lightning)

New challenges and opportunities arise every day for our Technical Consultants and their roles will vary based on the projects where they are engaged. The work is exciting and interesting and will require our Technical Consultants to:

  • Work with senior members of the team to analyze business requirements, translating those requirements into customized solutions using the Salesforce platform.

  • Implement Salesforce solutions that adhere to platform best practices and perform peer code reviews. Typical Salesforce implementations include custom platform development (Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Components), integrations with back-office systems (often using middleware tools) and complex data migrations. Experience in one or more of these aspects of a Salesforce project is necessary.

  • Participate in development workstreams, from design through testing and deployment.

  • With project leadership, assist in the estimation of work effort and set a realistic schedule for development.

  • Maintain effective client relations and rapport - delivering timely and relevant information with the ability to quickly identify and report project risks.

  • Post-delivery - assists client teams in supporting the live application and performs handoff and knowledge transfer activities, positioning our clients for long term success.


Basic Qualifications:


  • A minimum of 1-year experience with programming Languages – APEX, Visualforce.

  • Minimum of 6 months experience with customization on the Salesforce Lightning platform which should include: Lightning Components using the Lightning Design System framework, Apex, Apex data loader, and declarative platform tools. (Process Builder, Visual Workflow, Lightning App Builder, etc.)

  • A minimum of 6 months’ exposure to Salesforce.com APEX data loader.

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associates Degree, must have minimum 6 years’ work experience)


Preferred Skills:


  • Prototyping (InVision or similar)

  • Experience with common JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, etc.

  • Experience developing for Salesforce Communities and Lightning App Builder

  • Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment and be creative within a team

  • Knowledge of Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS) and Salesforce, either through work at industry participants or consulting to the industry


Preferred Credentials:


  • Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification

  • Salesforce Platform Developer I Certification

  • Salesforce Lightning Component Framework Specialist (Trailhead Super Badge)

  • Salesforce Lightning Experience Specialist (Trailhead Super Badge)


  • Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

As required by Colorado law under the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only, the range of starting pay for this role is 100,000 – 148,900 and information on benefits offered is here.


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Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.
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Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.


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Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.


Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.


Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.


The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Additionally, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company's legal duty to furnish information.

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