Salesforce Developer

Job Description

Company Overview

AllianceBernstein (AB) is a global investment-management firm providing industry-leading research and investment solutions through a combination of innovation, intellectual curiosity and relentless ingenuity. We offer high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional and individual investors worldwide. Our clients include some of the world's top institutions as well as private-wealth clients and retail investors. Through close partnerships with our clients, we collaborate on investment strategies across regions and sectors to inspire innovative thinking and deliver superior outcomes.We invest in our people and in the communities in which we operate, and we celebrate our diversity to showcase what makes us unique. We offer our talent the opportunity to grow professionally while working on cutting-edge ideas and outcomes in a global culture that operates as a tight-knit community.If you're ready to innovate and grow your career, join us.

IT Group Description:

Client Group Technology creates and supports business innovating technology for the Client Group. The team is responsible for business innovation, project and relationship management, data and business intelligence, vendor management, and software development as it relates to the tools used by the over 500 Client Group staff globally.

The Client Group has a presence in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia, and is composed of five main areas:

• Sales & Client Services works with financial intermediaries and institutions to offer diversified investment solutions that help clients build and preserve their wealth
• Business Development is a conduit to the firm’s investment teams and supports our clients and internal business partners through investment-platform and product content, messaging, competitive analysis and education
• Product Strategy & Development designs, develops and manages the firm’s global lineup of investment services and considers clients’ evolving needs to identify new opportunities
• Marketing promotes the firm and its services by creating, packaging and distributing content and messaging to engage diverse audiences through digital platforms and initiatives, strategic campaigns, and events
• Business Transformation looks to evolve and scale our business, leveraging digital and data, to drive topline growth and improve profitability

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Nashville based Salesforce Developer to join our CRM Team in Client Group Technology.

Describe the role:

Develop and configure our CRM platform providing strategic enhancements as well as production support.

Describe the applications and business or enterprise functions the role supports:

This role will be in support of a broad revamping of our data and toolsets for the Client Group that needs to take place to fuel our future growth globally across channels. This includes the improving the data structures, bringing together client interactions, sales, content, readership, and third-party data sets, to enable more nimble, effective, and predictive business intelligence, a re-organization and simplification of our CRM, and the build out of new front-end tools for our global Sales teams. This role will be key for continuing to deliver changes for our Salesforce.com instance and associated applications.

The key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Key job responsibilities include leading full development lifecycle and production support for CRM platform.

• Collaborate with our internal and external technology and business partners to implement product changes.
• Hands-on design and development (front-end and server-side development), hands-on database development including schema design and business logic implementation, working closely with other developers to ensure all code is consistent with architectural standards and design.
• Produce technical specification and design documents as required.

What makes this role unique or interesting?

The role will provide a wide variety of experiences and exposures, across different business units, processes, and technology.

Qualifications

Qualifications, Experience, Education:

• At least 5+ years of rigorous design and programming experience
• 3+ years of solid hands-on Salesforce CRM experience (Apex, Visual Force, Lightening)
• Hands-on experience in Web technologies (HTML, CSS, Java, JavaScript, C#, AJAX, etc.)
• Experience with Forcce.com custom development, SOAP and REST APIs
• Experience integrating Salesforce.com with enterprise-level applications though all available integration channels as well as Salesforce-to-Salesforce integrations
• Strong relational database design/development skills
• Experience with ETL tools, Informatica
• Track record of working on complex projects under aggressive deadlines
• Experience developing and delivering enterprise class solutions to real customer problems, preferably with an emphasis on Sales, Client Service, and/or Marketing issues
• Excellent problem solving, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics

Skills:

• Salesforce Administration and Development
• Data analysis and reconciliations
• Strong Excel capabilities
• Familiarity with SQL, databases
• Web technologies and Scripting

Special Knowledge:

• Salesforce CRM Experience is a must
• Certified Salesforce Developer or equivalent experience