Senior Salesforce Platform Engineer

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative Business technology team! As a Senior Salesforce Platform Engineer in AbbVie Business Technology Solutions (BTS), you’ll have opportunities to contribute to the digital transformation of a leading biopharma company, helping to create solutions that impact patients and their communities for the better.

***This is a hybrid role based in Lake County, IL***

Work collaboratively with technology and business groups to conceive, design, engineer, and implement data, software, and technology solutions that solve significant scientific or business problems. Investigate, identify, and implement state-of-the-art technology platforms that drive productivity and efficiency gains in own function and throughout multiple business areas. Contribute to advancement of technology in area of expertise. Develop productive collaborations and communications with other groups across multiple disciplines. . Technology Engineers will be aligned to a specific area: Information, Software, Data, or Infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Understand, design, implement, demonstrate and deploy Salesforce Technology solutions using Point and click OOO features, Apex, Triggers, LWC, REST/SOAP integrations by studying Business needs, futuristic use cases, system data flows, work processes, investigating the production problems.
• Serve as the Technical expert to lead projects and technical staff to implement new solutions, new products or operational improvements.
• Analyzes and resolves technical problems using analytical problem-solving techniques/methods.
• Conducting the design and code reviews, identifying the system or process or solution gaps, and constructing or providing recommendation for corrective actions, planning and executing the preventive measures.
• Creating design patterns/models, coding best practices for vendors and other staff members to follow.
• Studying the Salesforce Release Notes and bringing the PoV on new features that can be incorporated into system and business processes.
• Conducting POC for the new features, documenting and demonstrating the observations and learnings, constructing the Business Use Case, cost estimation and execution plan for them.
• Highly autonomous and productive in performing activities, requiring minimal direction from the Supervisor. Accountable for total project scope, budget, completion within budget constraints and scheduled completion date. Accountable for successful and timely completion of all tasks/projects under direct and matrix control.
• Constructing the Technical specifications and technical design documents.
• Provides Technical leadership and mentors and consults vendors or less experienced staff in planning, procedures and best practices.
• Identify the ambiguities, risks for the Projects and identifying the mitigation plans.
• Working with Product Owners, Program Managers, Business analysts, Solution Architects, Application Architects for new projects and maintaining good relationships with cross functional teams.
• Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle.

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 6 years of experience; Master’s Degree with 5 years of experience; PhD with 0 years of experience.
• Possess thorough theoretical and practical understanding of own discipline
• Proven implementation of creative technology solutions that advanced the business.
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills.
• Must have 6 years of each of the following:
  • Salesforce administration and development experience.
  • Designing & implementing new processes & facilitating user adoption;
  • Identifying & analyzing upstream & downstream impact analysis through applications, systems, & processes.
  • Building custom applications with triggers/Apex code/Aura/LWC/SOAP/REST Integration, Flows and Platform Events.
  • Writing SOQL/SOSL & SQL with any RDBMS (e.g. SQL Server/Oracle/DB2)

Exp may be gained concurrently.

• Salesforce.com Administrator certification.
• Salesforce.com Platform Developer I
• Salesforce.com Platform Developer II

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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