Toptal: Salesforce Platform Lead for Global Industrial Company full-time Remote

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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