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Toptal: Salesforce Platform Lead for Global Industrial Company
Source: weworkremotely
About the Role
We are looking for a Salesforce Platform Lead for a global company. Their goal is to own the Salesforce platform as a product, improving release health, security, engineering standards, reusable patterns, and AI-assisted delivery.
General Information
- Location: Remote (Talents from the USA or Canada).
- Language Preference: French/English bilingual candidates are preferred for the Montreal hub.
- Time Zone Overlap: 6 hours with East Coast time zone, USA.
- Commitment: Full-time.
- Length: 12+ months.
Required Skills
- 6–10 years of Salesforce administration and development experience with platform ownership responsibilities.
- Expert-level Salesforce Flow experience.
- Solid hands-on experience with Apex and Lightning Web Components (LWC).
- Experience with Salesforce Experience Cloud and Service Cloud.
- Strong Salesforce release management experience.
- Experience with CI/CD for Salesforce environments.
- Strong knowledge of Salesforce security, sharing, permissions, and platform governance.
- Experience defining and enforcing coding and configuration standards through hands-on pull request reviews.
- Experience managing production Salesforce environments, including releases, sandbox strategy, backup, and recovery.
- Experience designing reusable Flow, LWC, and integration patterns for development teams.
- Experience leading or supporting P1 production incident response.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding copilots and agents in Salesforce development workflows.
- Experience with Salesforce metadata automation, test generation, org discovery, and AI-assisted pull request review.
- Ability to validate AI-generated code and automation before production deployment.
Optional Skills
- French and English bilingual proficiency.
- Salesforce Administrator certification.
- Salesforce Platform App Builder certification.
- Salesforce Platform Developer certification.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Deliverables
- Own the Salesforce production environment, including releases, security, sandbox strategy, backup, and recovery.
- Define Salesforce coding and configuration standards and participate directly in pull request reviews.
- Build reusable reference patterns for Salesforce Flow, LWC, and integrations.
- Lead P1 incident response, including triage, remediation, and pairing with engineers on fixes.
- Drive a release cadence of two weeks or less in collaboration with QA and product stakeholders.
- Allocate and manage ongoing technical-debt capacity, targeting approximately 10–30% of engineering capacity.
- Own the AI-assisted Salesforce development toolchain, including coding copilots, test generation, org discovery agents, and pull request pre-review.
- Measure developer effective capacity when using AI-assisted workflows and identify friction caused by manual delivery processes.
- Automate operational runbooks and release-note generation while maintaining human approval for production-risk decisions.
- Use AI copilots and agents daily to accelerate discovery, development, testing, and documentation while remaining accountable for production decisions.