Sr. Engineer - Salesforce

Description:

This Sr. Engineer position will sit on our Advisor Marketing Practice & Promotion product team (AMPP). We build, enhance and support many features and platforms that support our field advisors in their marketing to their book of business. The team and this team member has opportunities to work with Salesforce, marketing cloud, Java apps, and other enterprise apps that are widely used by thousands of our field advisors. For development skills, I am looking for highly experienced candidates with a toolkit including Salesforce development (apex, LWCs, REST APIs), marketing cloud development, Java-based development, and OpenShift knowledge.

Advisor Marketing Value Statement:

Purpose of Advisor Marketing Practice & Promotion is to empower advisors to promote their practice and grow their business in their unique markets. We do this by equipping advisors with tools, content templates, and marketing support to build their brand, reduce friction in campaign execution, tailor promotions to local audiences, and optimize growing their practice using insights and metrics as feedback loops.

Advisor Marketing Product Outcomes:

• Key Business Outcome: Drive Advisor success with client consideration and conversion outcomes that grow their business

• Reduced level of effort for advisors to find, create, and personalize content to market their practice

• Measurable content & template effectiveness (optimized based on metrics and campaign goals)

• Enhance the advisor experience (satisfaction) w/ their ability to grow their business

Description:

As a Sr. Engineer you will be considered a technical expert in one or more phases of application and/or systems engineering (Salesforce). This includes providing design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy and expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business. You will determine specifications, plan, design, and develop business critical software solutions, utilizing appropriate software engineering processes - either individually or in concert with product team.

Key Responsibilities:

Designing Solutions:

- Apply deep Salesforce technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers

- Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy

Implementing Solutions:

- Member of team that can work independently, as well as collaboratively with team, in developing core software for the product that delivers outcomes.

- Consistent and dependable in delivering core software that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, etc.

Learning and Applying New Techniques:

- Shares new Salesforce features, ideas and techniques with team; encourages junior engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job.

Collaborating within the Team:

- Participate in team’s collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team

- Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work

Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns:

- Contribute to develop Salesforce engineering practices , templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team.

DevOps:

- Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software; Use data to measure progress

- Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.

- Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems.

- Knowledge of Github, Github actions, feature branching, branch merging

- Sound knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors:

- Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors

- Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor

Coaching Engineers:

- Provide guidance to junior engineers to help them learn foundational software engineering skills

- Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues

- Provide trainings to the junior developers (trailhead modules, custom development plans, etc.)

- Provide Salesforce domain expertise to junior engineers to help them learn/grow their skills and contribute as part of the team

Recruiting/Building Talent:

- Engage in the local Salesforce tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market

- Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team

- Contribute to the recruitment to define the structure of the interview process to hire the right talent to the team.

Education Required:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience

Required Work Experience / Skills:

- 5+ years of salesforce development apex experience, lightning web components (LWCs), apex triggers, apex frameworks, REST APIs, third-party integrations with Salesforce, flows, SOQL, SOSL

- Sound knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices

- Proficiency in managing large-scale Salesforce projects

- Ability to articulate and communicate complex Salesforce concepts to a wide audience (technical and non-technical)

Preferred Qualifications:

- Salesforce Certifications – Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I & II, Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Engagement Developer

- Partnered with engineering teams to modernize application delivery through Java-based development, OpenShift containerization, and Terraform-driven cloud infrastructure automation, enabling faster and more reliable software releases

- Experience with implementing Distributed Marketing product within Salesforce Core CRM.

Skills

Salesforce.com, Salesforce marketing cloud, Lightning, Apex, api, java, openshift, Distributed markeiting, salesforce certified

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

- Salesforce Certifications – Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I & II, Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud Engagement Developer

- Partnered with engineering teams to modernize application delivery through Java-based development, OpenShift containerization, and Terraform-driven cloud infrastructure automation, enabling faster and more reliable software releases

- Experience with implementing Distributed Marketing product within Salesforce Core CRM

Experience Level

Intermediate Level

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Minneapolis, MN.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $73.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 7, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.