Senior Principal Salesforce Developer (Remote)

Magellan Federal; United States; Remote; USD 127,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Magellan Health, Inc. seeks a Senior Principal Salesforce Developer (Remote) to deliver advanced Salesforce platforms. You will provide technical leadership, hands-on coding, and guidance across teams, ensuring scalable, high-quality software in an Agile environment.

The role requires strong experience with Apex, LWC, APIs, data modeling, and AWS cloud design principles. Remote work is available with national scope, and the company emphasizes security and compliance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years IT experience including health care/insurance domain beneficial.
• Salesforce Platform Developer I or II preferred; additional Salesforce certifications are a plus.
• Hands-on Salesforce development experience with Apex, LWC, APIs and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the portfolio of applications under IT Service Owner.
• Drive usability and quality of software across the portfolio.
• Maintain technical currency of applications within the portfolio.
• Hands-on software engineer writing quality code and solving problems.

Skills

Salesforce development

Apex

Lightning Web Components

APIs

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Computer & Information Science

Job description

• Salesforce Platform Developer I or II preferred. Additional Salesforce certifications are a plus.
• At least five (5) years of experience in Salesforce development, including hands‑on experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), APIs, and data modeling.

Required

• 7+ years IT experience.

Preferred

• Salesforce Platform Developer I or II preferred. Additional Salesforce certifications are a plus.
• At least five (5) years of experience in Salesforce development, including hands‑on experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), APIs, and data modeling.

This position services as an expert technical and industry resource to management, clients and development staff in new uses of information technology in all phases of major system and subsystem development. Provides consultation on internal and industry IT technical and business domain process capabilities including leadership in the identification and recommendation of new IT opportunities and business operations as it relates to application development. Formulates, contributes to, and directs task identification, work effort estimates, and work schedules for research, prototype, and proof‑of‑concept IT activities. Directs and participates in all aspects of development tasks including data management, application architecture and business architecture. Provides guidance to staff on complex assignments and mentors on new technologies.

• Provides technical leadership for the portfolio of applications managed by an IT Service Owner.
• Drives the usability and quality of the software developed within the area.
• Ensures technical currency is maintained within the applications within the portfolio.
• Acts as a hands‑on software engineer who can write quality code, assist with problem solving, root cause analysis, trouble shooting and coaching.
• Writes technical blogs and be active in Open Source Community.
• Agile, DevOPS and Cloud:
• Applies Design Thinking techniques on application design.
• Leads agile software development efforts as a senior Technical Leader.
• Coaches and mentors other software engineers across teams on practices such as TDD, ATDD and pair programming.
• Designs highly scalable applications in AWS cloud using tools like Cloud Formation Templates, EC2, SWF, ELB, Lambda, S3, RDS/Dynamo DB and others.
• Creates load and performance testing strategy and perform advanced performance tuning.
• Reviews and implement corrective and preventive measures based on metrics across portfolio of applications including but not limited to code quality, business metrics and performance metrics.

The job duties listed above are representative and not intended to be all-inclusive of what may be expected of an employee assigned to this job. A leader may assign additional or other duties which would align with the intent of this job, without revision to the job description.

Other Job Requirements

• 8+ years of related experience including experience working with Agile Methods and modern programming environments.
• Experience in health care, insurance or related field.
• Critical thinker.
• Demonstrated problem solving techniques.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

General Job Information

Title

Senior Principal Salesforce Developer (Remote)

Grade

32

Work Experience - Required

IT

Education - Required

A Combination of Education and Work Experience May Be Considered., Bachelor's, Bachelor's - Computer and Information Science

Salary Range

• Salary Minimum: $127,295
• Salary Maximum: $229,105

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

This position may be eligible for short-term incentives as well as a comprehensive benefits package. Magellan offers a broad range of health, life, voluntary and other benefits and perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing.

Magellan Health, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Tobacco-free workplace. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled.

Every employee must understand, comply with and attest to the security responsibilities and security controls unique to their position; and comply with all applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and internal policies and procedures.