Salesforce Platform Lead for Global Industrial Company

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 To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/toptal-salesforce-platform-lead-for-global-industrial-company