Summary: The Salesforce Engineering Lead will spearhead engineering excellence and hands-on development within the Salesforce ecosystem, focusing on multiple Salesforce clouds. This newly created role requires a strategic thinker with a strong background in Salesforce platform engineering, DevOps, and large-scale application support. The ideal candidate will lead development efforts, oversee environment management, and collaborate with teams to ensure technical excellence. Additionally, they will mentor junior engineers and translate business needs into scalable Salesforce solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the hands-on development and engineering efforts across multiple Salesforce clouds, including Health Cloud, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud (SFMC).
• Oversee environment management, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps workflows, using Azure DevOps (native pipelines).
• Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to ensure technical excellence, scalable architecture, and alignment with business goals.
• Support a large user base and multiple business-critical Salesforce applications.
• Address complex technical challenges and lead major implementations and integrations across business units.
• Act as a subject matter expert and mentor to junior engineers while maintaining ownership of development standards and best practices.
• Partner with product owners, architects, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable Salesforce solutions.

Key Skills:

• 7+ years of Salesforce development and engineering experience, with strong knowledge of Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), integrations (REST/SOAP), and Salesforce configuration.
• Proven experience supporting enterprise-scale Salesforce environments with thousands of users and multiple applications.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD, and environment strategy – experience with Azure DevOps pipelines is highly preferred.
• Experience with Salesforce Health Cloud and/or contact center solutions is a major plus.
• Familiarity with Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) and experience integrating across clouds.
• Pharma or Life Sciences industry experience is a strong advantage.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to operate as a technical leader, not just an implementer.
• Experience working in a hybrid on-site model (3 days/week in North Chicago required).

Salary (Rate): undetermined

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Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT