Salesforce Development Lead

A large retail company is seeking a Salesforce Development Lead to drive the technical direction, architecture, and development of our Salesforce platform. This role is central to transforming how we connect with customers across sales, service, and digital channels, with Salesforce at the heart of that evolution. You will oversee a team of Salesforce Developers, delivering scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions aligned with enterprise strategy-combining hands-on technical expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to translate complex business needs into elegant, maintainable solutions.

In this position, you will lead and mentor a team of developers while providing technical guidance, coaching, and code reviews; develop and deploy custom solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce, and Flows; and collaborate with technical architects to design scalable, user-focused solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Data Cloud that drive measurable business outcomes. You will integrate Salesforce with telephony systems to enhance customer service capabilities, partner with Product, Technical Architects, and DevOps teams to ensure delivery excellence, enforce development standards, version control, and CI/CD best practices while leading troubleshooting of technical issues, maintain architecture patterns, data models, and comprehensive documentation, manage workload and release quality, support the broader Salesforce transformation program, ensure compliance with data governance and security requirements, and stay ahead of platform updates to evaluate and adopt new features as appropriate.

Pay Rate: $70/hr

*Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or

equivalent experience)

• 7+ years of Salesforce experience, including 5+ years of hands-on development in an

enterprise environment (Apex, LWC, API integrations)

• 4+ years leading Salesforce development teams in an Agile/Scrum environment.

• Deep understanding of Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, and integrations with

enterprise systems

• Proven experience designing secure, scalable architectures and managing multiple

environments (sandbox strategy, CI/CD)

• Strong understanding of Salesforce data model, Governor Limits, and optimization

techniques

• Experience with DevOps pipelines (Gearset, Copado, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions)

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills - able to translate complex technical

concepts for non-technical audiences * Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I & II

Salesforce Application or System Architect

• Salesforce Sales Cloud or Service Cloud Consultant

• Experience with Data Cloud, Service Voice, Field Service and Agentforce a plus