tailkHeadquarters:
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.
French/English bilingual candidates are preferred for the Montreal hub.
Overlap: 6hs with East Coast time zone, USA
Commitment: full-time
Length: 12+ month
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 (not mandatory):
- 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
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/toptal-salesforce-platform-lead-for-global-industrial-company