Salesforce Platform Engineer

About the Role:

As we continue to grow and add top talent to the Baird IT family, we are looking to add an experienced Salesforce Platform Engineer to our team. The team you work with manages an implementation for our Global Investment Banking group with 600+ users.  Our Baird Salesforce professionals are dedicated to working together to support our expanding Salesforce implementation in a highly collaborative environment.

Join us to design, build, continuously improve and maintain Salesforce solutions that solve real business problems. You’ll combine declarative configuration with programmatic development and apply Salesforce best practices to build, configure, automate, integrate and optimize Salesforce solutions to ensure users can maximize the platform’s value. Join an inclusive Salesforce team—engineers, developers, architects, analysts, and change leaders—who learn from each other, share ownership, and raise the bar together.

We're hiring two Salesforce Platform Engineers to support our growing Salesforce platform in our Capital Markets portfolio. These roles support our Capital Markets team in a hybrid work environment.

Platform Engineer, Financial Services Cloud:
This engineer will help develop and implement a new Salesforce org using Financial Services Cloud. Prior FSC experience is preferred, but not required.

Platform Engineer, Sales Cloud:
This engineer will build and enhance solutions in shared-org environment using Sales Cloud.

Baird is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status.​The Impact You'll Make:

Turn business requirements into functional Salesforce solutions using the appropriate declarative or programmatic tools based on a strong understanding of trade-offs between declarative and programmatic solutions and a declarative-first approach

Design, develop, test, document, and deploy Salesforce features with quality and reliability in adherence to the Salesforce Well-Architected framework Mapping Salesforce features to the problem we are solving and the associated business processes

Clarify MVP and scope, consider platform‑first options (including App Exchange), and compare alternatives before committing to code

Work closely with product owners, business analysts, and peers to help translate business needs into working solutions by engaging in discovery and gathering requirements

Assist in effort estimation and applying Salesforce capabilities to business requirements Clearly communicate trade-offs, risks, decision criteria to assist others in understanding the impact of changes to the Salesforce system

Collaborate closely with teammates and stakeholders, using agile feedback loops to refine decisions

Define and communicate a clear course of action, prioritize effectively, and summarize complex issues in simple terms for different audiences

Stay focused on the most important, prioritized work; communicate competing priorities; and give useful status updates with remaining‑work estimates

Manage user access and security, maintain data quality and integrity, automate business processes, create custom reports and dashboards

Manage installed managed packages and App Exchange solutions, including opening, managing and resolving application issues with external application vendors

Write/Maintain Apex classes, triggers, batch jobs, when necessary

Build Lightning Web Components (LWC) and Aura components, when necessary

Work with Visual Force and JavaScript, when necessary

Develop and manage Salesforce integrations (REST/SOAP APIs, Platform Events, External Services)
Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce deployments (Salesforce DX) and coordinate the rollout of enhancements to the production…