Base Salary Range USD $118,875.92 - USD $152,108.87 /Yr. Join Mariner Finance!
Since 1927, the Mariner Finance family of companies has provided customers with creative, flexible, and convenient lending options. Headquartered in Baltimore, Mariner Finance operates coast-to-coast with physical locations in over half the states. With a growing number of employees, superior customer service remains the cornerstone of our business, and we pride ourselves in delivering a variety of loans with an enhanced focus on exceptional service. We work with customers to find options that are beneficial to their specific needs, which is why we are recognized by our customers as one of the community’s consumer finance companies of choice.
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Job Details
In this role, you will...
Serve as an advanced Salesforce technical subject matter expert responsible for leading the design, development, and optimization of highly complex Salesforce solutions that support critical business applications and enterprise technology initiatives. Apply specialized expertise and independent technical judgment to address complex development challenges, improve application performance, and ensure solutions align with established architecture, security, and development standards.
Provide technical leadership across assigned Salesforce development initiatives, serving as an escalation resource for complex technical issues and influencing development practices, solution quality, and technical improvements. Partner with Architects, technology teams, and business stakeholders to evaluate solution approaches, guide technical implementation, and mentor developers while remaining actively involved in hands-on development and delivery.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Lead the development, implementation, and optimization of highly complex Salesforce applications and custom solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Flows, SOQL, and other Salesforce platform capabilities.
- Work in conjunction with the Salesforce Architect on the platform's technical design.
- Serve as an advanced technical subject matter expert for Salesforce development, providing guidance on complex application design, development patterns, performance optimization, platform constraints, and technical implementation decisions.
- Provide technical leadership for significant Salesforce development initiatives, coordinating complex development activities, identifying technical dependencies, and guiding implementation to meet business requirements and established quality standards.
- Partner with Salesforce Architects, Business Analysts, Product Owners, QA, and business stakeholders to evaluate solution alternatives, recommend technical approaches, and ensure development aligns with approved architecture and enterprise technology standards.
- Lead the technical implementation of complex integrations between Salesforce and enterprise systems, collaborating with MuleSoft and other integration teams to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable data exchanges and API-based solutions.
- Evaluate and improve Salesforce development practices, reusable components, coding standards, testing approaches, and technical documentation to promote consistency, efficiency, and maintainability across development activities.
- Lead technical code reviews and provide guidance on solution quality, application security, governor limits, system performance, scalability, and adherence to established Salesforce development standards.
- Serve as an escalation point for highly complex Salesforce application, integration, and production issues, leading technical troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and implementation of sustainable corrective solutions.
- Identify, assess, and prioritize technical debt, application performance concerns, and development improvement opportunities; recommend and lead implementation of technical remediation activities in partnership with Architects and technology leadership.
- Provide advanced technical guidance and mentoring to developers, sharing specialized knowledge, reviewing technical approaches, and supporting consistent application of development standards and best practices.
- Collaborate with development, QA, and release management teams to improve automated testing, source control, deployment reliability, and CI/CD practices using Jira, Copado, and related development tools.
- Evaluate emerging Salesforce development capabilities, tools, and technologies, recommending improvements that enhance application functionality, operational efficiency, security, and long-term platform sustainability.
- Support complex technical design reviews, solution demonstrations, and cross-functional planning activities, communicating technical considerations, implementation risks, and recommended solutions to technical and business stakeholders.
- Contribute technical expertise to Salesforce application planning and enhancement initiatives, identifying opportunities to improve scalability, maintainability, reliability, and alignment with business objectives.
- May perform additional functions depending on business needs.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; additional applicable experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
- Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive software development experience, including at least five (5) years of relevant hands-on Salesforce development experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading the technical development and delivery of highly complex Salesforce applications and custom solutions within an enterprise environment.
- Expert-level proficiency in Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL, Salesforce Flows, and advanced Salesforce development techniques.
- Advanced knowledge of Salesforce platform architecture and development considerations, including data modeling, security and sharing models, governor limits, performance optimization, automation, and scalable application design.
- Extensive experience designing, developing, and troubleshooting Salesforce integrations with enterprise applications using REST APIs, OAuth 2.0, asynchronous messaging, and Salesforce integration capabilities.
- Hands-on experience integrating Salesforce with MuleSoft, including collaborating on API design, implementing integrations, and troubleshooting cross-platform issues.
- Advanced experience with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud and related platform capabilities.
- Demonstrated experience evaluating technical design alternatives, addressing complex development challenges, and implementing solutions that align with established enterprise architecture and security standards.
- Advanced experience with the full software development lifecycle, including Agile/Scrum delivery, technical design reviews, automated testing, code quality practices, deployment, and production support.
- Advanced experience with source control, CI/CD processes, and Salesforce deployment tools, including Git and Copado or comparable technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, application performance optimization, and technical debt remediation.
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring developers, conducting code reviews, and contributing to development standards and best practices.
- Strong analytical, technical decision-making, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence technical approaches and collaborate across development, architecture, and business teams.
- Ability to independently manage competing technical priorities, evaluate implementation risks, and drive effective resolution of complex development challenges.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I.
- Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II.
- Salesforce Certified JavaScript Developer I.
- Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder.
- Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Developer.
- Experience developing or supporting Salesforce solutions in consumer lending, banking, financial services, or another regulated environment.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale Salesforce implementations involving multiple applications, business functions, or complex system integrations.
- Experience with additional Salesforce cloud products, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, or Experience Cloud.
Hours of Work:
Full-time. Work hours will depend on the business hours of the time zone serviced. To the extent permitted by law, the Company may, in its sole discretion, change the work schedule to address business needs.
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit for extended periods; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to move about. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to twenty (20) pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
EEO:
Mariner Finance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, familial or caregiver status, citizenship status, status as a victim of domestic violence, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran. Employee must be able to perform the essential duties/functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential duties/functions of their job, absent undue hardship. Drug/Alcohol/Smoke-free workplace.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time or without notice.
