Remote / Equipment provided
AU shift
Salesforce Development Lead
Role Summary
Responsible for leading the development, delivery, and continuous improvement of Salesforce platform solutions (CRM, CPQ, FinancialForce, Experience Cloud), ensuring high-quality engineering outcomes, alignment to architecture standards, and consistent delivery across squads
Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Salesforce solutions across squads, ensuring alignment with engineering standards and best practices
- Provide technical leadership across Salesforce CRM, Experience Cloud, Apex programming, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Aura, JavaScript
- Drive adoption of Salesforce DX, CI/CD, DevOps practices, and Git-based version control across teams
- Strong understanding of integration patterns including REST/SOAP APIs, middleware (e.g. MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services), and microservices architecture
- Knowledge in Conga CPQ, Certinia (FinancialForce), and Experience Cloud enhancements is highly desirable
- Contribute to and validate solution architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Conduct technical design reviews and enforce development standards and best practices
- Lead and mentor developers and senior developers, supporting capability uplift and consistent engineering practices
- Collaborate with technical leads, architects, product owners, and stakeholders to align technical delivery with business outcomes
- Support estimation, planning, risk management, and delivery forecasting across squads
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including automation and AI-assisted development (e.g. Salesforce Einstein, Agentforce)
Core Skills
- Advanced Salesforce platform development and architecture (Apex, LWC, Aura)
- Integration design (REST/SOAP APIs, event-driven and synchronous patterns)
- DevOps practices (CI/CD, SFDX, release and environment management)
- Security and access control (roles, profiles, permission sets, governance)
- Debugging, performance optimisation, and production support
- Stakeholder management, mentoring, and technical leadership
Experience
- Minimum 8 years in agile delivery environments
- Minimum 6 years in Salesforce ecosystem
- Lead / People Management experience
- Proven experience leading delivery of complex enterprise Salesforce solutions
- Demonstrated experience mentoring teams and managing technical delivery outcomes
- Experience working across multiple squads or delivery streams
Qualification
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Salesforce Platform Developer I certification
- Salesforce Platform Developer II (highly desirable)
