Salesforce Platform Lead for Global Industrial Company

Headquarters:

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

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