The Salesforce Dev Ops Lead/Architect is a senior, hands-on role responsible for defining and driving the DevOps strategy, environment management, and release management processes for large-scale Salesforce implementations. This role requires a strong combination of technical leadership, architectural design expertise, and in-depth knowledge of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines on the Salesforce platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Architecture: Define, document, and lead the technical design of scalable, high-performance solutions that leverage the Salesforce platform.

• DevOps and Release Management:

• Oversee and manage repository configurations and pipelines.

• Define and enforce a branching strategy (e.g., Centralized or Distributed Development Environments) for all tracks and workstreams.

• Control code merges from 'develop' to 'release' for UAT deployment and manage merges from 'release' to 'staging' (UAT to STG).

• Coordinate ad-hoc merges and orchestrate regular merges at sprint starts.

• Determine the necessity of off-cycle merges based on recommendations from the Operations team.

• Take on the responsibility of crafting the package.xml and rollback procedures, with the ability to automate this process using a Git pipeline.

• Implement delta deployment approaches for production releases to reduce regression risks, deployment time, and the number of manual pre/post-deployment steps.

• Leadership & Mentorship:

• Lead and mentor development and QA teams on projects.

• Mediate conflicts and foster collaboration among diverse teams (Development, QA, Operations, DevOps).

• Lead code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to appropriate design patterns.

• Provide Salesforce deployment support to the DevOps team.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Experience: Over 7 years of Salesforce technical consulting and solution implementation experience.

• Salesforce & Development:

• Expert-level understanding and hands-on implementation experience of the Salesforce product suite.

• Proficiency in programming with Salesforce (APEX, LWC, Omniscript, etc.) and object-oriented languages.

• Deep understanding of systems architecture, scalable solutions, key design patterns, and large data volume limitations.

• DevOps Expertise:

• Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.

• Practical deployment knowledge of process and automation configuration, code-level customization, and DevOps practices on Salesforce.

• Experience with SHIP-HATS and at least one dev ops tools such as Copado, GitLab is preferred.

• Experience with platform security capabilities (TLS, SSL) and authentication patterns (SAML, SSO, OAuth).

• Other Technical Skills:

• Experience in data analysis, database design, SOAP and REST APIs, and integration patterns.

• Familiarity with architecture and process flow visualization tools.

• Soft Skills: Independent worker, self-starter, strong presentation, communication, and facilitation skills.