Senior Platform Engineer

Job Classification:Technology - Engineering & Cloud**Retirement Strategies Technology** is at the forefront of modernizing how we deliver retirement security. The team is driving multi-year investments in digital platforms, automation, and advanced data capabilities to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency. By blending human expertise with cutting-edge technology, Retirement Strategies Technology is shaping a future where retirement planning is more accessible, personalized, and secure. **Location: Newark, NJ hybrid (minimum 3 days/week in office)**As a **Senior Platform Engineer**, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers, and delivery professionals to improve the **Salesforce platform**. You will code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services, and experiences. In addition to applied experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.**Location: Newark, NJ hybrid - minimum 3 days/week in office.****Requirements:*** Liaise between the business analysts, internal systems team and external vendors, developing solutions to meet business requirements.* Conduct a full range of programming tasks including design, development, testing and documentation for complex projects leveraging the Salesforce platform.* Create and maintain technical documentation related to solutions developed.* Keep abreast of Salesforce initiatives and technological trends that impact the business to continue to improve efficiencies on the Salesforce platform.* Provide daily support to end users including managing issue resolution and performing root cause analysis.* Manages system issues appropriately and escalates to senior management where needed.* Facilitates system testing, working with business analysts to identify test cases, developing test scripts and conduct test execution.* Will act as subject matter expert in Salesforce, Marketing Cloud and related applications.* Assist in coordination of production releases, working towards an Agile delivery methodology.* Write unit, integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems.* Bring an applied understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide input to the team and coach others, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day* Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.**The Skills & Expertise You Bring:*** Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields* Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)* 5-7+ years of proven experience with design and development of custom solutions using Apex, Lightning, batch apex, Lightning Component frameworks and Salesforce API.* Advanced knowledge of Salesforce CRM platforms.* Financial Services Cloud/Service Cloud or Sales Cloud functional knowledge. Advanced flows, Platform Events, Large Data Volumes and performance optimization. Familiarity with security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0* Experience with leveraging services to integrate Salesforce with AWS and other external apps (REST, JSON, Event Streaming, Core Java, Spring Boot etc.)* Demonstrated ability to work well independently and as part of collaborative team.* Ability to solve problems with high-level software and application issues.* Knowledge of Salesforce development best practices.* Strong written and oral communication skills* Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)* Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills.* **Preferred qualifications:** + Knowledge of Vlocity/Omnistudio is huge plus + Collaboration skills to work with business partners and agile teams + Knowledge of Bitbucket, DevOps automation tools & practices + Experience with Test-driven Development (TDD) + Testing tools such as SOAPUI, Postman, Selenium + Financial/Insurance industry experience is a plus# **What we offer you:**# Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $107,700.00 to $160,500.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.* **Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.*** **Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.*** 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).* Company-funded pension plan.* **Wellness Programs**including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.* **Work/Life Resources** to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.* **Education Benefit** to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.* **Employee Stock Purchase Plan:** **Shares** can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week. Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email accommodations.hw@prudential.com.If you are experiencing a technical issue with your application or an assessment, please email careers.technicalsupport@prudential.com to request assistance.Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a global financial services leader and premier active global investment manager with approximately $1.4 trillion in assets under management as of Dec. 31, 2023, has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Prudential’s diverse and talented employees help make lives better and create financial opportunity for more people by expanding access to investing, insurance, and retirement security. Prudential’s iconic Rock symbol has stood for strength, stability, expertise and innovation for 150 years. For more information please visit news.prudential.com.**Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace**Prudential Financial, Inc. serves its customers in more than 40 countries and territories, and we seek talented, creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds, worldviews, and life circumstances to work with us. We are focused on creating a fully inclusive culture,
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