Engineer Software - Salesforce

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Canada Life is an insurance and financial services company with its headquarters in Winnipeg, Manitoba. We provide a wide range of insurance and wealth management products for individuals, families, and business owners from coast to coast. Canada Life is focused on improving the financial, physical and mental well‑being of Canadians and believes in good corporate governance. Our Technology team is a strategic partner in our business – with an ambition to be a forward‑thinking, agile technology organization delivering secure, resilient, and leading solutions that support Canada Life and the well‑being of millions of Canadians.

The Salesforce Engineer is responsible for the best practice in salesforce application development that delivers against our stakeholder design and vision in a scalable and re‑usable way where possible. The Salesforce Engineer has a firm understanding of Salesforce coding languages including LWC, Apex, SFI. You have experience with collaboration tools like Jira/ Confluence / Bit Bucket / Git lab.

• Design and build experiences in Salesforce Communities, Clouds using LWC, Apex and or at time Salesforce Industries Vlocity cloud platform
• Ensure the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards
• Work closely with other developers to understand and properly use the platform components
• Write both unit and integration tests and develop automation tools for daily tasks
• Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions
• Help and mentor other members of the team
• Be a member of a high performing Agile team

• Education - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 3+ years of experience in Salesforce delivering software, integration or platform engineering solutions following a SDLC developer in Salesforce application development and administration.
• Demonstrated experience using engineering practices to meet and measure functional and non‑functional requirements as well as comply with security standards.
• Achievement of several Salesforce certifications.
• Experience in Apex Code, triggers, custom object development, SFDC APIs, Web services, , Lightning Web Component development.
• Solid understanding of at least one of the following:
• Integrations and an understanding of API’s.
• Deployment tools such as Jenkins, Git Lab, and other CICD tools.
• Demonstrated experience with delivery supply chain projects that drive automation, self‑serve and high re‑use across the enterprise.
• Strong understanding of the platform, with the ability to build custom apps and objects, formula fields, workflows, custom views, and other content of intermediate complexity.
• Demonstrated technical depth and experience with complex solution design and engineering.
• Ability to lead design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of software and systems through engineering.
• Strong understanding of industry best practices.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain collaborative business relationships.
• Able to pivot and quickly change direction in response to changing priorities.
• Experience coaching and mentoring technical practitioners.
• Ability to communicate, verbally and in writing, complex concepts to a non‑technical audience.
• Working knowledge of Jira and Confluence an asset.
• Experience working in financial services industry an asset.
• Knowledge of AI capabilities within the Salesforce platform.
• Experience working in Contact Center and with AWS connect and Sales/Service console as agent desktop an asset.
• Experience working in financial services industry an asset.

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.