Salesforce Technical Lead

Location: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Experience: 5–8 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Mode: On-site / Hybrid

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Salesforce Technical Lead to join our Salesforce engineering team in Coimbatore .

The Technical Lead will be responsible for leading the technical implementation of Salesforce projects across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Experience Cloud and other Salesforce platforms .

The ideal candidate should have strong Salesforce development expertise along with experience in MuleSoft, CI/CD, DevOps, integrations and Salesforce release management . Strong communication and client-facing skills are essential.

Key ResponsibilitiesSalesforce Technical Leadership

- Lead the technical implementation of Salesforce projects from design through production.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to Salesforce developers.
- Review technical designs and development approaches.
- Conduct code reviews and enforce development standards.
- Troubleshoot complex Salesforce issues.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies and scalability concerns.
- Work closely with Solution Architects, BAs, PMs, QA and clients.

Salesforce Development Strong hands-on experience with:
- Apex
- Lightning Web Components (LWC)
- Salesforce Flow
- SOQL/SOSL
- Triggers
- Batch, Queueable and Scheduled Apex
- Platform Events
- REST/SOAP APIs
- Salesforce Security & Sharing
- Custom Metadata Types
- Salesforce DX / Salesforce CLI

Salesforce Clouds Strong experience in one or more of:
- Sales Cloud
- Service Cloud
- Marketing Cloud
- Experience Cloud
- Data Cloud
- Agentforce
- Revenue Cloud / CPQ
- Field Service

MuleSoft & Integration
- Hands-on experience with MuleSoft and Salesforce integrations.
- Good understanding of MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.
- Experience with REST and SOAP APIs.
- Understanding of API-led integration and integration patterns.
- Experience with authentication, error handling and retry mechanisms.
- Ability to troubleshoot issues across Salesforce and middleware.




- MuleSoft Anypoint Studio / API Manager experience is preferred.

CI/CD & DevOps

Strong experience with

- Git
- GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket
- Salesforce CLI / DX
- Branching strategies
- Pull Requests
- Code reviews
- CI/CD pipelines
- Automated validation and deployments
- Sandbox and environment management
- Release management

Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Copado, Gearset or Flosum is preferred. The candidate should be capable of designing and implementing CI/CD processes , not just executing deployments.

Release Management

- Own Salesforce deployment and release processes.
- Coordinate Development, QA, UAT and Production deployments.
- Manage deployment dependencies.
- Troubleshoot deployment failures.
- Maintain release and deployment processes.
- Implement appropriate rollback and recovery procedures.
- Ensure deployments are version controlled and traceable.

Client & Stakeholder Communication Strong communication skills are mandatory.

The candidate should be comfortable with:

- Client-facing technical discussions.
- Explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Presenting solution approaches and technical designs.
- Discussing technical risks, dependencies and trade-offs.
- Working with client architects and IT teams.
- Clarifying technical requirements.
- Providing clear technical status updates.
- Leading technical discussions and workshops.

Team Leadership
- Lead and mentor Salesforce developers.
- Conduct technical knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Establish coding and development standards.
- Review developer code and technical approaches.
- Support developers with complex technical issues.
- Participate in technical interviews and assessments.
- Build and improve Salesforce engineering practices.





Required Skills

Salesforce

- Apex
- LWC
- Flow
- SOQL/SOSL
- Salesforce APIs
- Security & Sharing
- Data Modelling
- Salesforce Architecture

Integration

- MuleSoft
- REST / SOAP APIs
- Integration patterns

DevOps

- Git
- Salesforce CLI / DX
- CI/CD
- Deployment automation
- Release management

Leadership

- Team mentoring
- Code reviews
- Technical design
- Technical estimation
- Problem solving

Communication

- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Strong client-facing skills
- Technical presentation skills
- Stakeholder management

Required Experience
- 5–8 years of Salesforce experience.
- Strong hands-on Apex and LWC development experience.
- Experience leading Salesforce developers.
- Strong experience in Sales Cloud and/or Service Cloud.
- Hands-on Salesforce integration experience.
- MuleSoft experience is required.
- Proven experience with Salesforce CI/CD and DevOps.
- Experience managing Salesforce deployments and releases.
- Experience participating in client-facing technical discussions.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

Certifications

Preferred

- Salesforce Platform Developer I
- Salesforce Platform Developer II
- Salesforce Administrator
- Sales Cloud Consultant
- Service Cloud Consultant
- Application Architect
- MuleSoft Developer certification

Ideal Candidate We are looking for someone who can:

Design → Develop → Review → Integrate → Automate → Deploy → Troubleshoot → Communicate → Mentor The candidate should be hands-on, technically strong, client-facing and capable of building engineering practices for a growing Salesforce development team.

Why Join Us?

- Work on multiple Salesforce implementation projects.
- Exposure to Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud and other Salesforce platforms .
- Work with MuleSoft and contemporary integration architectures .
- Build and improve Salesforce CI/CD and DevOps practices .
- Opportunity to lead and mentor a growing Salesforce engineering team.
- Based in Coimbatore .

📌 Salesforce Technical Lead - Coimbatore
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