Lead Engineer, Systems Engineering
On-sitePune, Maharashtra, India
Job Summary
Lead Salesforce platform releases, managing tri-annual readiness, impact assessments, and production sign-offs while defining quality gates and automated testing requirements. Own org health across all environments by monitoring performance, governor limits, and stability, then lead assessments to remediate technical debt and security vulnerabilities. Execute a multi-year modernization roadmap, migrating from Classic to Lightning and legacy configurations to modern paradigms, while championing Salesforce DX and modular architecture. Mentor a cross-functional team of developers and administrators, establish engineering standards, and serve as the primary technical spokesperson for platform strategy with executive stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Working knowledge of Salesforce administration, configuration, customization, and declarative platform capabilities
- 8+ years of Salesforce platform experience, including at least 3+ years in a platform lead, Salesforce release management, or architect role
- Deep expertise in Salesforce release management including CI/CD pipeline ownership, deployment tooling (Copado, SFDX, GitHub Actions), and change management governance
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Salesforce DevOps practices: source control, branching strategies, automated testing, environment management, and deployment automation
- Proven experience with Salesforce org health management: Health Check, Optimizer, Event Monitoring, governor limits, and performance tuning
- Solid understanding of Salesforce platform architecture: multi-org design, metadata management, data architecture, integration patterns, and security model
- Experience leading Salesforce modernization initiatives such as Classic-to-Lightning migration, Flow migration, or LWC adoption
- Familiarity with Salesforce tri-annual release management including sandbox preview testing, impact assessment, and production readiness processes
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and executive reporting skills
- Active Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I and at least one advanced or architect-level Salesforce certification
- Experience with Agile/Scrum or SAFe delivery frameworks at a program or portfolio level
- Lead Data Cloud adoption and integration into the broader Salesforce platform, enabling unified customer profiles and data-driven personalization across clouds
- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, application development, platform engineering, or a related field required
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals, RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator) certification, or equivalent preferred
Desired Qualifications
- Application Architect certification
- Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred
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