The Role
The Lead Salesforce Developer serves as the
technical owner of Salesforce development delivery, responsible for guiding architecture decisions, mentoring developers, and ensuring scalable, high-quality implementations across the platform.
This role combines
hands-on development,
technical leadership, and
enterprise integration expertise. You will partner closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, performant Salesforce solutions supporting both ongoing operations and M&A integrations.
You will set development standards, lead complex implementations, and ensure Salesforce remains a stable and extensible enterprise platform.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Act as technical lead for Salesforce development initiatives across multiple projects and Pods.
- Define and enforce Salesforce development best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns.
- Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to scalability, security, and performance standards.
- Mentor and guide Salesforce developers and junior engineers.
Salesforce Platform Development- Design and develop advanced solutions using:
- Apex (Triggers, Classes, Batch, Queueable, Future)
- Lightning Web Components (LWC)
- Flows and Platform Events
- Implement complex business logic where declarative tools are insufficient.
- Optimize system performance, governor limit usage, and data processing efficiency.
Enterprise Integrations
- Architect and oversee integrations between Salesforce and enterprise platforms including NetSuite, AWS services, and middleware systems.
- Define API strategies, authentication models, and error-handling frameworks.
- Implement scalable, event-driven and asynchronous integration patterns.
M&A System Onboarding
- Lead technical integration efforts for acquired companies migrating into Salesforce.
- Define data migration strategies and transformation models.
- Evaluate legacy systems and recommend consolidation approaches.
Architecture & Solution Design
- Translate business requirements into technical designs and implementation strategies.
- Produce technical architecture diagrams and integration documentation.
- Partner with architects to balance declarative vs. custom development decisions.
- Provide technical estimates and risk assessments.
DevOps & Release Management
- Partner with CI/CD adoption and deployment best practices.
- Support source control, branching strategies, and release governance.
- Ensure automated testing and deployment quality standards are maintained.
Qualifications
Required Experience- 7+ years of Salesforce platform experience with strong hands-on development.
- Proven experience leading Salesforce technical implementations.
- Salesforce certifications preferred:
- Platform Developer I (required)
- Platform Developer II (strongly preferred)
- Application or System Architect certifications (preferred)
Technical Expertise- Expert-level proficiency in:
- Apex development and asynchronous processing
- Lightning Web Components (LWC)
- SOQL/SOSL optimization
- Salesforce security & sharing model
- Proficiency in configuring Salesforce Revenue Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Experience Cloud
- Deep experience designing Salesforce integrations using REST/SOAP APIs.
- Experience integrating Salesforce with ERP systems (NetSuite strongly preferred).
- Strong data modeling and migration experience.
Integration & Cloud Experience- Experience working with:
- OAuth and secure API integrations
- Middleware or event-based architectures
- AWS services (Lambda, S3, EventBridge preferred)
Leadership & Communication
- Strong English communication skills.
- Ability to lead technical discovery sessions and design discussions.
- Experience mentoring developers and guiding delivery teams.
- Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis capabilities.
Preferred Skills- Experience with Salesforce Revenue Cloud / CPQ implementations.
- Familiarity with NetSuite SuiteTalk or SuiteScript.
- Experience with DevOps tooling:
- Salesforce DevOps Center
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Experience working within enterprise-scale or multi-org Salesforce environments.
- Exposure to M&A technology integration programs.
Skills: devops,cloud,salesforce,enterprise,integration,architecture