Senior Software Engineer, Senior Developer - Salesforce

Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.

The Senior Developer role provides technical guidance to the Enterprise Salesforce community in the context of Salesforce Planned Releases and provides guidance during solution planning within the Enterprise Salesforce service.  The successful candidate has a deep understanding of Salesforce technical architecture and associated capabilities, cloud data models and solution patterns.

This role performs platform related administrative activities, tracks and assists with Health Checks and is on point for the Salesforce Platform Release Update process and impact to BMS solutions.  This role provides guidance to all product teams from platform perspective and participates in design sessions whenever needed.

Desired Candidate Characteristics: 

• Have a strong commitment to a career in technology with a passion for healthcare. 
• Ability to understand the needs of the business and commitment to deliver the best user experience and adoption. 
• Able to collaborate across multiple teams.  
• Demonstrated leadership experience. 
• Excellent communication skills 
• Innovative and inquisitive nature to ask questions, offer bold ideas and challenge the status quo. 
• Agility to learn new tools and processes. 

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluating Release changes on the Salesforce Platform and impact to existing and planned applications
• Actively Assists with planning activities to address changes on the SF platform considering:
  • Security and compliance
  • Data Modeling & Migration needs
  • Multi-component solutions
  • Apex, Visualforce, Lighting Web Components
  • AppExchange Apps
  • API impact
  • Secure messaging
  • Managing large data volumes (LDVs)
  • Integration patterns
  • DevOps strategy
  • Leading a team of developers
  • CI/CD
  • Environment management
  • Deployments

Qualifications & Experience

• Strong technical skills in Salesforce development, including Salesforce Lightning, Apex, Visualforce, SOQL, and SOSL.
• Experience in Salesforce integrations with external systems.
• Experience in Agile methodologies and project management tools, such as JIRA.
• Knowledge of data migration and data management tools and techniques, such as Data Loader and Data Import Wizard.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce security features and best practices, including role hierarchy, profiles, permission sets, and sharing rules.
• Knowledge of Salesforce Clouds, such as Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Health, and Marketing Clouds.
• Experience in designing and implementing custom solutions using Salesforce Lightning Web Components, Aura Components, and Visualforce.
• Strong understanding of web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.

• Salesforce certifications, such as Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II.
• Requires thorough knowledge of the principles and concepts of a discipline and developed knowledge of other related disciplines, typically gained through a university degree and 5-8 years of experience. 
• Articulates and presents complex information clearly and concisely across all levels.
• Participates in decision making and brings experiences and ideas to achieve team objectives. ​
• Identifies short-term and long-term development goals aligned with current capabilities.
• Looks to improve processes, structures, and knowledge across teams. Leads in analyzing current states, delivers strong recommendations, and able to actively assist to bring complex solutions to completion.​
• Evaluates complex issues through analytical thinking and previous experience to consider short and long-term implications and interdependencies and guides others when enough analysis has been completed in giving recommendations/solutions.​

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/

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