Manager Of Applications Development Jobs in Chicago, IL

Company Overview

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by providing an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.?

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

Paylocity acquired Airbase! Airbase Inc., a modern finance and spend management software solution that combines bill pay / accounts payable automation, expense management, corporate cards and procurement capabilities. The acquisition of Airbase represents an expansion of Paylocity’s suite and is expected to deliver incremental integrated value to HR and finance leaders in managing all of their spend on a single platform – expanding the Paylocity total addressable market beyond HCM and further into the Office of the CFO.

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer various benefits, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Airbase by Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.

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Position Overview

The Manager Applications Development leads a team of developers primarily focused on Salesforce. This role spans responsibilities from high-level architecture and design through hands on development, build & testing. They focus on ensuring all viable options are objectively considered and balance business goals with technical design and project constraints to meet requirements.

This role is a technical leader and people manager leading a technical team. This role requires deep technical knowledge of the Salesforce.com platform and familiarity with Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, CPQ, Billing, and integrations

Primary Responsibilities

The below represents the primary duties of the position, others may be assigned as needed. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work directly with developers, architects, and Salesforce admins to design and build solutions that solve the needs of our end-users in a scalable way.

• Plans, documents, and executes unit test plans to ensure completed code meets defined success criteria.

• Deploy, monitor, and support software releases during iterative development cycles

• Provides documentation to support code changes

• Instill, implement, and enforce Salesforce development standards about system architecture and scalability.

• Ability to keep up with current technology trends in Salesforce to access and make recommendations on processes, design, and operation

• Manage the day-to-day activities of the development team such as one-on-ones, collaboration with the Salesforce Admin team, and prioritization and scoping of work items.

• Communicate with senior management on the status of projects, timelines, challenges to implementation, and deployments in a non-technical manner.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• 2+ Years’ experience leading or managing a team of developers/engineers

• 5+ years experience with Apex, JavaScript, Visualforce, Lightning, Salesforce Admin, CPQ, DocuSign.

• Experience building and maintaining integrations between multiple enterprise systems

• One or more Salesforce Developer Certifications (required)

• Salesforce CPQ Specialist certification (preferred)

• Dell Boomi experience (preferred)

• Oracle Netsuite (preferred)

Physical requirements

• Ability to sit for extended periods: The role requires sitting at a desk or workstation for long periods, typically 7-8 hours a day.

• Use of computer and phone systems: The employee must be able to operate a computer, use phone systems, and type. This includes using multiple software programs and inquiries simultaneously.

Airbase by Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Airbase by Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, or any other status protected by state or local law for an individual who falls within the jurisdiction of such law. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

Applicants who require an accommodation throughout the application and interview process should request this in advance by contacting accessibility@paylocity.com.

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