Job Details : Lead Engineer - Platform

Job Summary : What You'll Do : Salesforce Release Analysis & enablement

- Lead the Release**process for Salesforce changes, ensuring all releases are properly reviewed, approved, risk-assessed, and communicated to stakeholders.
- Manage Salesforce tri-annual release readiness — coordinating impact assessments, sandbox preview testing, feature evaluation, stakeholder communications, and production readiness sign-offs for every Salesforce seasonal release (Spring, Summer, Winter).
- Define quality gates and automated testing requirements (Apex unit tests, Jest, Provar, static code analysis) that must be satisfied prior to any production deployment.

Platform Maintenance & Operational Excellence

- Own Salesforce org health across all environments — continuously monitoring platform performance, governor limit consumption, storage utilization, API usage, and system stability.
- Lead platform health assessments and technical audits , identifying risks related to technical debt, deprecated features, security vulnerabilities, and configuration drift.
- Manage sandbox strategy and workplace lifecycle including sandbox provisioning, refresh scheduling, data masking, and environment-specific configuration management.
- Oversee Salesforce license management and org optimization — tracking user license utilization, feature license consumption, storage management, and cost optimization opportunities.
- Establish and maintain platform monitoring and alerting frameworks using Salesforce Shield Event Monitoring, Health Check, Optimizer, and third-party observability tools.
- Drive incident management and root cause analysis (RCA) for platform outages, deployment failures,



and critical production defects — implementing preventive measures to reduce recurrence.
- Govern data management practices within the platform including data archival strategies, duplicate management, large data volume (LDV) handling, and data quality frameworks.
- Ensure security and compliance maintenance including regular reviews of profiles, permission sets, sharing rules, connected apps, and org-wide security settings in alignment with HIPAA, SOX, and Cencora IT security standards.
- Manage Salesforce Trust site monitoring and communication of planned maintenance windows and unplanned outages to internal stakeholders.
- Coordinate third-party ISV and AppExchange app management including version upgrades, compatibility testing, license renewals, and vendor relationship oversight.

Platform Modernization

- Define and execute a multi-year Salesforce platform modernization roadmap , prioritizing migration from legacy configurations, deprecated technologies, and outdated customizations to modern Salesforce platform paradigms.
- Lead the migration from Classic to Lightning Experience , Aura to Lightning Web Components (LWC) , and legacy Process Builder/Workflow Rules to Salesforce Flow — ensuring systematic, low-risk modernization at scale.
- Drive adoption of Salesforce DX (source-driven development) , unlocked packages , and 2nd Generation Packaging (2GP) to modernize the development and deployment model.




- Evaluate and implement Salesforce AI and Einstein capabilities (e.g., Einstein Copilot, Predictive AI, Agentforce) as part of the platform modernization strategy.
- Champion the transition to modular, package-based architecture to improve deployment independence, reduce org complexity, and enable team scalability.
- Partner with enterprise architecture and IT leadership to align Salesforce modernization initiatives with broader digital transformation and technology strategy.
- Build and maintain a platform modernization backlog , tracking technical debt remediation items, deprecated feature migrations, and innovation initiatives with clear prioritization and business value articulation.
- Drive developer experience modernization — improving tooling, local development environments, code quality standards, and developer productivity frameworks across the Salesforce engineering teams.

Team Leadership & Enablement

- Lead, mentor, and develop a cross-functional team of Salesforce Senior Developers, Release Engineers, and Administrators across multiple functional domains (Sales, DevOps, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, Sales Cycle).
- Establish team-wide engineering standards , coding guidelines, peer review processes, and knowledge-sharing practices.
- Foster a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation within the Salesforce platform team.
- Drive Salesforce release training and enablement programs to upskill development teams on new platform capabilities, release readiness, and modernization technologies.

Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement

- Serve as the primary escalation point and technical spokesperson for all Salesforce platform release, mainten

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