Salesforce Technical Lead

Salesforce Technical Lead

Position Summary

The Technical Lead will be responsible for the overall technical architecture, solution design, development leadership, integration strategy, and successful delivery of Salesforce-based solutions within an assigned Salesforce Org. The individual will provide technical oversight for enterprise-scale implementations, ensure alignment with business and project objectives, lead development teams, and support highly available, integrated IT environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise Salesforce solutions.
• Define and manage solution architecture for large-scale integrated IT systems.
• Provide technical leadership for Salesforce application development teams and oversee code quality, security, performance, and scalability.
• Design and implement multi-tier (n-tier) architectures supporting enterprise applications.
• Develop integration strategies and implement REST-based integrations between Salesforce and external systems.
• Ensure solutions meet high-availability, performance, reliability, and security requirements.
• Lead technical teams, conduct code reviews, mentor developers, and enforce best practices.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, project managers, solution architects, and vendors to ensure successful project delivery.
• Support data migration, data governance, and large-volume data processing initiatives.
• Participate in technical planning, estimation, risk management, and solution documentation activities.

Mandatory Qualifications

Technical Leadership Experience

• Minimum 4 years of experience serving as a Technical Lead or Solution Architect with direct responsibility for the design, development, and implementation of integrated IT solutions.
• Experience must include solutions supporting:
• At least 5,000 combined internal and external users.
• At least 5 million data records.
• Multi-tier (n-tier) architecture environments.
• High-availability architectures, including clustering, load balancing, or similar resiliency mechanisms.

Team Leadership

• Minimum 3 years of experience leading and managing teams of five (5) or more full-time technical resources.

Salesforce Development Experience

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on Salesforce application development experience implementing solutions using at least three of the following technologies:
• Apex
• Lightning Web Components (LWC)
• SOQL
• SOSL
• RESTful API Development and Integration
• Salesforce Service Cloud
• Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, candidates may possess an additional 4 years of qualifying Salesforce development experience beyond the minimum required experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• ITIL Certification.
• One or more active Salesforce certifications, including:
• Salesforce Certified Administrator
• Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant
• Salesforce Marketing Cloud Administrator
• Salesforce Platform App Builder
• Salesforce Platform Developer II
• Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect
• Salesforce Certified System Architect
• Salesforce Certified Application Architect
• Salesforce Certified Business Analyst
• Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect

Required Skills

• Enterprise Salesforce Architecture
• Salesforce CRM Platform
• Apex Development
• Lightning Web Components (LWC)
• SOQL and SOSL
• REST API Development and Integration
• Service Cloud
• Marketing Cloud
• Integration Architecture
• High Availability Design
• Data Modeling and Data Migration
• Agile Delivery Methodologies
• Technical Team Leadership
• Stakeholder Management
• Solution Governance and Documentation

Success Profile

The ideal candidate is a senior Salesforce technical leader with proven experience delivering large-scale, highly available enterprise solutions, leading development teams, and driving end-to-end Salesforce architecture and implementation across complex business environments.

Owns technical solution design, development leadership, integration strategy and alignment with deliverables at the Salesforce Org level.

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Mandatory requirement

Duration

1

Technical lead or architect role, directly responsible for design, development and implementation of integrated IT solutions. All four conditions below must be met on the cited project

4 yrs FTE

1a

At least 5,000 users (internal and external combined) — state the actual number

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1b

At least 5 million data records — state the actual number

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1c

Multi-tier (n-tier) architecture — describe it

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1d

High availability environment, e.g. clustering or load balancing — describe it

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1e

Of which, leading a team of at least 5 FTE

3 of the 4 yrs

2

Salesforce application developer implementing solutions, covering at least three of: Apex, Lightning Web Components, SOQL, SOSL, RESTful API development and integration, Service Cloud & Marketing Cloud

3 yrs FTE

3

Bachelor's degree (copy required).

Without one

4 extra years of requirement 2, 7 yrs total

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Desirable requirement

Points

Substitution

Master's degree (copy required)

5

+2 yrs of req. 2 with Bachelor's; +4 yrs without

ITIL certified (copy required)

5

None

Salesforce technical certifications — 1 point each, maximum 5

5

None. Cheapest points in the bid

Total available per Technical Lead

15

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Eligible certifications for the 1-point-each desirable

Eligible Salesforce certification

Eligible Salesforce certification

Salesforce Certified Administrator

Salesforce Platform Developer II

Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant

Salesforce Certified System Architect

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Administrator

Salesforce Certified Application Architect

Salesforce Certified Platform Data Architect

Salesforce Certified Business Analyst

Salesforce Platform App Builder

Salesforce Certified Platform Integration Architect