Senior Salesforce Developer

Location: Denver, CO

Duration: 03+ Months

Client: CDE

Job Id: CDE-SFDev-UIP03142022

Job Description:

· The Colorado Department of Education (CDE or Department) is seeking a remote, qualified Salesforce Developer for the Accountability and Continuous Improvement unit. This is a staff augmentation to support modifications within the unit’s Salesforce applications, including alterations to existing VisualForce, Apex Classes, Apex Controllers, Meta Data, and Objects.

· This engagement includes designing, implementing, conversion and validating code as a component of the TLU, UIP, and SRP applications.

· In addition, this work may involve additional work associated with Tableau and Oracle, via Talend.

· This initiative is critical for CDE support school and district improvement planning, internal district relationship management, and internal data infrastructure. We need a Salesforce development expert who can can quickly ramp up on the CDE Salesforce environment, understand the scope of the identified work needed, ask questions when necessary for clarity, communicate progress and challenges, and implement innovative or creative technical solutions to alleviate current user challenges.

· We need explanations and documentation throughout, including configurations using best practices in all areas.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

· The Department’s Contract Project Manager for this project is Lisa Steffen, CDE Accountability Reporting and Special Projects Manager,

· The Contractor shall work closely and collaboratively with Department’s Project Manager to, discuss suggestions or issues as they occur and incorporate suggestions or guidance from the Department while performing the work described within this Statement of Work and the purchase order.

· The Contractor shall be required to be available for meetings with CDE staff between 7am – 5pm MT.

· The Contractor shall coordinate and prioritize all work to ensure that all deliverables and deadlines are met.

· The Contractor shall employ an internal quality control process to ensure that all deliverables are complete, accurate, easy to understand, and of high quality.

· The Contractor shall provide deliverables that, at a minimum, are responsive to the specific requirements, organized into a logical order, contain no spelling or grammatical errors, formatted uniformly, and contain accurate information and correct calculations.

· Contractor shall submit each Deliverable to the Department’s Project Manager for review and approval.

· The Contractor shall retain all work papers generated for reference through the duration of the project and project acceptance.

· The Contractor shall participate in the review and revision process, until the Department provides written acceptance of the deliverable.

· The Contractor shall provide copies of any supporting documentation to the Department upon request of the Department and without charge.

· The Contractor shall respond to all telephone calls, voicemails and e-mail inquiries from the Department within one (1) business day.

· The Contractor shall enable all Contractor staff to exchange documents and electronic files with the Department staff in formats compatible with the Department’s systems. The Department currently uses Microsoft Office 2010 for PC.

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

· The Contractor shall assist CDE in reviewing UIP and related custom objects within the Salesforce instance in order to determine opportunities for modification, code clean up, and inform the structural design.

· Design and implement modifications to the UIP and associated custom objects, ZPIF UIP and associated custom objects, CDE Feedback object, Technical Assistance and associated custom objects, Accreditation and Request to Reconsider objects as directed by and team.

· Create, based on design discussions with the Project Manager, new custom objects related to tracking and storing State Board actions.

· Design and implement modifications to existing VisualForce pages and Apex components related to the UIP and associated custom objects.

· Validate and promote custom code into the production environment, including code coverage.

· Submit detailed status reports or participate in weekly status meetings as required by the Department during the engagement.

· Attend required meetings with the required project stakeholders as directed by the Department. These meetings will be scheduled by a Department employee. All questions and communication should go through the Project Manager, Lisa Steffen. If Lisa Steffen is not available she will recommend a Department employee for the communication.

· Alert the Project Manager, when issues or potential risks are encountered that will affect the project.

· Provide documentation to the Project Manager. This documentation must provide details on the work provided and at a level a Department employee can use the information in order to support the work at the end of the contract.