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The team you work with manages an implementation for our Global Investment Banking group with 600+ users.\nOur Baird Salesforce professionals are dedicated to working together to support our expanding Salesforce implementation in a highly collaborative environment. Join us to design, build, continuously improve and maintain Salesforce solutions that solve real business problems. You’ll combine declarative configuration with programmatic development and apply Salesforce best practices to build, configure, automate, integrate and optimize Salesforce solutions to ensure users can maximize the platform’s value. Join an inclusive Salesforce team-engineers, developers, architects, analysts, and change leaders-who learn from each other, share ownership, and raise the bar together.\nWe're hiring two Salesforce Platform Engineers to support our growing Salesforce platform in our Capital Markets portfolio. 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