Salesforce Technical Lead

What We Need

Corpay is currently looking to hire a Salesforce Technical Lead within our Corporate Payments division. This position falls under our Account Payables line of  this role, you will provide technical leadership for our Salesforce platform and development team. This role combines hands-on development with solution architecture, technical mentoring, and delivery leadership. The ideal candidate is passionate about building enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions, driving engineering excellence, and leveraging AI-enabled development practices to accelerate innovation while maintaining high quality standards.

The Salesforce Technical Lead / Solution Architect leads a Salesforce delivery pod responsible for designing and delivering business solutions across Corpay’s Salesforce platform. This role combines people leadership, solution design, delivery oversight, and close partnership with Product Owners, Technical Architects, Administrators, and Developers.

The Solution Architect translates business needs into clear, cohesive solution approaches; guides the pod through delivery; and ensures solutions are aligned with business outcomes, platform standards, security requirements, and long-term maintainability.

The ideal candidate is a strong Salesforce leader with solution-design experience and a preference for practical AI-assisted development practices that improve delivery speed, quality, documentation, and team effectiveness.

How We Work

As a Salesforce Technical Lead, you will be expected to work in a virtual environment.

Corpay will set you up for success by providing:

• Company-issued equipment

• Formal, hands-on training

Role Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the role will include:

Leadership

• Leading, coaching, and developing a Salesforce delivery pod, including direct people-management responsibilities.
• Setting clear expectations, providing regular feedback, supporting career development, and helping team members grow their Salesforce and delivery capabilities.
• Assigning work across the pod based on priorities, skills, capacity, and development opportunities.
• Fostering a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing team culture.
• Partnering with leadership on staffing, hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning.
• Removing delivery blockers and ensuring the pod has the information, decisions, and support needed to deliver effectively.

Solution Delivery

• Leading solution-design discussions translating business requirements into clear, scalable Salesforce solution approaches.
• Partnering with Product Owners and business stakeholders to understand objectives, define scope, identify dependencies, and validate proposed solutions.
• Guiding the pod in evaluating declarative configuration, Salesforce automation, custom development, integrations, and process changes as part of the overall solution.
• Ensuring proposed solutions are aligning with established Salesforce platform standards, security requirements, enterprise architecture guidance, and business priorities.
• Working with Technical Architects and senior developers to review detailed technical designs, identify risks, and confirm implementation plans are supporting desired business outcomes.
• Leading technical and functional decision-making for the pod, escalating cross-platform architecture decisions when appropriate.
• Balancing delivery timelines, business value, team capacity, technical debt, and long-term solution sustainability.
• Supporting estimation, sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and production-readiness activities.
• Ensuring the pod is delivering solutions meeting agreed functional, quality, security, and supportability expectations.

Hands-on Development

• Developing enterprise-grade Apex solutions using modern object-oriented programming principles.
• Building scalable Lightning Web Components (LWC) and advanced Salesforce Flows.
• Designing asynchronous solutions using Queueable Apex, Platform Events, Change Data Capture, and Batch Apex where appropriate.
• Developing and maintaining REST APIs and enterprise integrations.
• Optimizing applications for Salesforce governor limits, platform performance, and maintainability.
• Participating in complex development efforts and proof-of-concept initiatives.

Team Leadership

• Mentoring and coaching Salesforce engineers through technical guidance, pair programming, and code reviews.
• Contributing to coding standards, documentation practices, and testing expectations.
• Fostering a collaborative engineering culture…