Salesforce Technical Lead

📌Salesforce Technical Lead (Full-time Contract, Remote)

Lead Salesforce as part of an Azure-based cloud ecosystem (not a standalone CRM), building resilient integrations, event-driven workflows, and high-quality delivery practices.

🗓 Start date: ASAP📆 Contract type: Contractor, Full-time, indefinite🌐 Work hours: Monday to Friday, 7.30 to 16.30 PST - 100% Remote

🛠️ What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and coach a small team of Salesforce Developers and Administrators (2–5 direct reports), setting technical direction and raising engineering standards.

• Design and deliver Salesforce solutions that integrate deeply with an Azure cloud platform (multi-product environment).

• Define and implement enterprise integration patterns: API gateway design, event-driven architecture, microservices, and real-time synchronization.

• Partner with Solution Architects and Platform Engineering to define scalable integration patterns between Salesforce and Azure services.

• Build and maintain API integrations across systems (e.g., NetSuite, Coupa, DocuSign) using REST/SOAP, OAuth2, and related standards.

• Ensure Salesforce best practices, security protocols, and operational resilience across releases and environments.

• Improve delivery through estimation support, clear implementation approaches, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and intelligent monitoring.

• Drive innovation: identify AI-supported opportunities in Salesforce solutions and across the product lifecycle.

✅ What You Need to Succeed

Must-haves

• 7+ years of Salesforce technical experience, including integrations with external systems and cloud platforms (Azure strongly preferred).

• 5+ years leading technical teams in cloud-native environments (Azure/AWS/GCP), with ownership of technical decisions for a pod/workstream/product area.

• Strong hands-on knowledge of Apex, Lightning (Aura + LWC), Flows, and Visualforce.

• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, API management/gateway concepts, event-driven architecture, and microservices.

• Ability to make architectural trade-offs and clearly defend decisions to senior technical stakeholders.

• Experience working in agile/product operating models and collaborating cross-functionally (Product, UX/UI, QA, Engineers).

• Strong communication, problem-solving, and mentoring skills; able to create strong feedback loops and predictable delivery.

Nice-to-haves

• Salesforce Architecture certifications (preferred).

• Experience with SFDX and modern Salesforce delivery workflows.

• Experience with API Management, iPaaS tools, and messaging/queues for event-driven designs.

• Azure Solution Architect certification (or equivalent).

• Experience designing AI-driven/AI-supported Salesforce solutions (e.g., Agentforce or similar capabilities).

🧭 Our Recruitment Process

Here’s what to expect from our candidate-friendly interview process:

• Initial Interview – 60 minutes with our Talent Acquisition Specialist

• Culture Fit – 30 minutes with our Team Engagement Manager

• Technical Assessment – Online Challenge/Multiple Choice Questionnaire

• Final Stage – 60 minutes with the Hiring Manager

🌟 Why Join Launchpad?

We believe that great work starts with great people. At Launchpad, we offer:

• 💻 Fully remote work with hardware provided

• 🌎 Global team experience with clients in North America

• 💸 Competitive USD compensation

• 📚 Training and learning stipends

• 🌴 Paid Time Off (vacation, personal, study)

• 🧘‍♂️ A culture that values autonomy, purpose, and human connection

✨ Ready to make your mark? Apply now and be part of something exciting.