Sr. Salesforce Developer

Location Chicago, Illinois, United States This job is associated with 2 categories Job  Information Technology Job Type Full-Time Posted Date 09/25/2026

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The United IT team designs, develops, and maintains highly scalable technology solutions brought to life through innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Job Overview and Responsibilities

The Salesforce Tech Lead is a hands‑on technical lead responsible for designing, building, and supporting scalable Salesforce solutions across enterprise applications.

This role partners with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and distributed development teams to translate business needs into secure, maintainable technical solutions.

The ideal candidate can independently lead complex initiatives, guide other developers, balance multiple priorities, and ensure high‑quality delivery from requirements through production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Salesforce solution delivery, from technical design and development through testing, deployment, production validation, and support.
• Serve as a hands‑on technical lead, building complex Salesforce functionality while guiding other developers.
• Design and implement scalable solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce Flow, SOQL/SOSL, platform APIs, and related Salesforce capabilities.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, analysts, architects, and technology teams to clarify requirements and recommend practical Salesforce solutions.
• Translate business requirements into technical designs, estimates, integration approaches, and implementation plans.
• Coordinate onshore and offshore developers through design guidance, code reviews, dependency management, and technical issue resolution.
• Lead technical delivery across multiple Salesforce projects, enhancements, defects, technical debt, and production‑support priorities.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, architecture discussions, estimation, release planning, and production‑readiness activities.
• Promote Salesforce engineering best practices for reusable architecture, secure coding, performance, testing, logging, and maintainability.
• Develop enterprise‑grade Apex, including services, triggers, asynchronous processing, batch jobs, scheduled jobs, and reusable frameworks.
• Build responsive, reusable Lightning Web Components using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Lightning Data Service, and Salesforce Lightning Design System.
• Use Salesforce Flow and Apex appropriately to deliver automation that is scalable, supportable, and aligned to platform best practices.
• Design and implement integrations using Salesforce APIs, Platform Events, Change Data Capture, middleware, and appropriate integration patterns.
• Apply secure integration patterns using OAuth, Named Credentials, and appropriate authentication and authorization approaches.
• Design solutions with strong awareness of Salesforce limits, transaction boundaries, large data volumes, performance, scalability, and resiliency.
• Apply Salesforce security best practices for profiles, permission sets, sharing, CRUD/FLS, role hierarchy, record access, Apex, and LWC.
• Create and maintain automated tests, including Apex unit tests, test data, callout mocks, positive and negative scenarios, and LWC Jest tests where applicable.
• Support source‑driven development and release practices using…