Salesforce Team Lead

Role Overview

• Lead and manage a high-performing cross-functional development team, providing regular feedback and nurturing their technical and creative problem-solving skills.
• Work closely with our Product team to prioritize, assign, and deliver upcoming work, ensuring that implemented software meets long-term business objectives.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior team members.
• Supervise the delivery of other developers on the team by setting priority and guiding deliverables.
• Represent the Salesforce development team when engaged with cross-functional teams, including functional analysts, Project Management, Operations, Infrastructure, Compliance, and the business customer.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy custom Salesforce solutions, including Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Components, and integrations with other systems.
• Customize Salesforce to meet specific business needs by creating custom objects, fields, workflows, and validation rules.
• Integrate Salesforce with other systems using APIs and middleware tools, ensuring seamless data flow and interoperability.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure the quality, performance, and security of developed solutions.
• Develop software solutions to business problems, leveraging established design patterns and coding standards.
• Maintain code quality, organization, and automation, troubleshooting and resolving production issues as part of tier 3 support during office hours.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Prepare and maintain documentation for system configuration, release management, and operating procedures.
• Participate in planning, decomposing, estimating, scheduling, prioritization, and resource allocation exercises.
• Operate in both waterfall and Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes and methodologies.
• Create and maintain documentation supporting training, system administration, deployment, and operational processes and procedures.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and remediate incidents and problems to support the end-user community.
• Contribute to the vision, roadmap, and platform investments needed to take our business solutions to the next level.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, such as Infrastructure, Security, Compliance, QA, and key operational teams, to strengthen and elevate the platform from a technology perspective.

Requirements

• 7+ years as a Senior Salesforce Developer, with 3+ years leading a team.
• Salesforce Application and/or Systems Architect certification(s).
• Preferred experience with subscription or CPQ integrations, such as Zuora or Salesforce CPQ.
• Experience with Agile methodology and building a Salesforce DevOps pipeline process.
• Advanced proficiency with Force.com Platform (Apex, VisualForce, Salesforce APIs, SOQL, Unit Testing).
• Proficiency with Salesforce Lightning and configuring Lightning Web components.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with 3rd party tools using APIs and middleware.
• Strong understanding of data migration and ETL tools.
• Proficiency with code change control using BitBucket, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Knowledge of sophisticated business systems integration as well as object-oriented design patterns and development.
• Familiarity with Services Oriented Design Principles (SOA) and Web Services.
• Familiarity with other programming languages, including JavaScript required.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working in highly collaborative, cross-functional development teams.

Tech Stack

• ETL
• JavaScript
• SDLC
• Visualforce

Benefits

• Integrated mental health & wellbeing support
• Vacation – starting at 3 weeks
• Wellness Days & Annual Giving Day – an extra to give back to yourself or your community
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• End of the year, company-wide shut down for you to relax and recharge
• LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development