Salesforce Platform Lead

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