Toptal: 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