Salesforce Technical Lead (7+ Years Experience)

Job Title

Salesforce Technical Lead

Location

Remote 

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Technical Lead with 7+ years of Salesforce development experience to provide technical leadership, architectural governance, and strategic direction across our Salesforce ecosystem.

This role combines deep hands-on Salesforce expertise with leadership responsibilities, ensuring the successful design, delivery, scalability, security, and long-term sustainability of enterprise Salesforce solutions. The successful candidate will lead development teams, define technical standards, guide architecture decisions, and act as the primary technical authority for Salesforce initiatives across the organization.

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Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Serve as the Salesforce technical lead across projects, programs, and platform initiatives.
• Establish and enforce development standards, coding best practices, and governance frameworks.
• Provide technical leadership to Salesforce Developers, Administrators, Business Analysts, and Architects.
• Lead solution design sessions and technical discovery workshops.
• Review and approve solution designs, development approaches, and deployment strategies.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across development, architecture, and delivery practices.

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Salesforce Architecture & Solution Design

• Provide architectural oversight for all Salesforce development activities.
• Design scalable, secure, and maintainable Salesforce solutions aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
• Define and implement enterprise design patterns and reusable frameworks.
• Ensure technical solutions align with business objectives and long-term platform strategy.
• Evaluate platform capabilities and recommend innovative Salesforce solutions.

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Salesforce Development

Maintain expert-level proficiency across:

Apex Development

• Apex Classes
• Apex Triggers
• Batch Apex
• Queueable Apex
• Future Methods
• Schedulable Apex
• Asynchronous Processing Frameworks

Responsibilities include:

• Establishing scalable Apex frameworks.
• Reviewing and approving complex code solutions.
• Driving code quality and governance standards.
• Ensuring compliance with Salesforce governor limits and best practices.

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Lightning Development

• Lead development of advanced Lightning Web Components (LWC).
• Oversee complex Aura and LWC integration strategies.
• Define reusable component standards and frameworks.
• Ensure scalable and maintainable front-end architectures.

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Data Architecture & Query Optimization

• Define enterprise-level data access and query strategies.
• Design solutions optimized for large data volumes (LDV).
• Oversee advanced SOQL and SOSL implementations.
• Establish standards for data performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Drive query optimization initiatives across the platform.

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Automation Strategy

• Define organization-wide automation standards and governance.
• Lead migration strategies from legacy Workflow Rules and Process Builder implementations.
• Design complex Flow orchestration solutions.
• Ensure automation frameworks remain scalable, maintainable, and aligned with Salesforce best practices.

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Enterprise Integrations

Design and oversee enterprise integration architectures including:

• REST APIs
• SOAP APIs
• Platform Events
• Event-Driven Architectures
• External Services
• Middleware Platforms

Advanced expertise required in:

• OAuth 2.0
• Named Credentials
• Integration Security
• Authentication and Authorization Frameworks

Responsibilities include:

• Defining integration standards.
• Reviewing integration designs.
• Ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across all integrations.

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Security & Governance

• Define Salesforce security architecture and governance frameworks.
• Establish enterprise-wide access control strategies.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security and audit requirements.
• Oversee implementation of:
  • Profiles
  • Permission Sets
  • Permission Set Groups
  • Sharing Rules
  • Role Hierarchies
  • Field-Level Security

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DevOps & Release Management

• Lead Salesforce DevOps strategy and implementation.
• Establish CI/CD standards and deployment governance.
• Drive adoption of:
  • Git
  • Salesforce DX (SFDX)
  • Automated Testing
  • Branching Strategies
  • Release Management Frameworks
• Oversee deployments across multiple Salesforce environments and business units.

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Platform Performance & Scalability

• Define strategic performance architecture standards.
• Lead system-wide optimization initiatives.
• Identify and resolve platform bottlenecks and scalability challenges.
• Ensure solutions are designed for growth, resilience, and long-term sustainability.

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Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead and mentor Salesforce development teams.
• Conduct technical reviews and performance coaching.
• Support career development and technical growth of team members.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Build a culture of technical excellence and accountability.

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Minimum Requirements

Experience

• 7+ years of Salesforce development experience.
• Extensive experience delivering enterprise Salesforce implementations.
• Proven experience leading Salesforce development teams.
• Experience defining architecture standards and governance frameworks.
• Demonstrated success delivering large-scale Salesforce transformation initiatives.

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Technical Skills

Expert Salesforce Development

• Apex Development
• Lightning Web Components (LWC)
• Aura Components
• SOQL/SOSL
• Salesforce Automation
• Platform Events
• Data Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

• Enterprise Design Patterns
• Solution Architecture
• Architectural Governance
• Scalability Planning
• Platform Optimization

Integrations

• REST APIs
• SOAP APIs
• OAuth
• Named Credentials
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Enterprise Integration Patterns

Security

• Enterprise Security Architecture
• Governance & Compliance
• Access Management Strategy

DevOps

• Git
• Salesforce DX (SFDX)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Branching Strategies
• Release Governance

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Certifications

Required

• Salesforce Platform Developer I
• Salesforce Platform Developer II

Highly Preferred

• Salesforce Application Architect
• Salesforce System Architect
• Salesforce Certified Administrator
• Salesforce Advanced Administrator

Advantageous

• Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) Track Exposure
• Additional Salesforce Cloud Certifications

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Personal Attributes

• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong strategic and analytical thinking abilities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence technical and business decision-making.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Passion for innovation, mentorship, and technical excellence.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical work with leadership responsibilities.

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Success in This Role

The Salesforce Technical Lead will act as the primary technical authority for the Salesforce platform, defining architecture standards, governing development practices, leading technical teams, and ensuring that Salesforce solutions are secure, scalable, high-performing, and aligned with the organization's long-term technology strategy.