Salesforce DevOps Engineer( Locals to CA)

Primary (Must have skills)* - To be Screened by TA Team

10 years of experience with Sales Cloud
8 years of experience with Service Cloud
8 years of experience with Marketing Cloud)

Job Description of Role* (RNR) - To be Evaluated by Technical Panel (Define it to give more clarity)

The ideal candidate will provide leadership across three major functional teams Medical Affairs, Market Access, and Marketing comprising approximately 10 12 Salesforce developers. Responsibilities include implementing and managing a robust CI/CD pipeline, ensuring secure and efficient configuration and permission controls, enforcing coding standards, and maintaining overall platform hygiene.
Key to this role is establishing the right frameworks for release governance, DevOps guidelines, and onboarding processes for new developers. The ideal candidate will ensure that architecture decisions adhere to best practices and balance configuration vs. custom code strategies. Additionally, retrospectives will be conducted to continuously optimize processes and delivery cycles.

The ideal candidate will be expected to:
Lead end-to-end DevOps lifecycle including build, deploy, release management, and monitoring.
Enforce access and security protocols, permission sets, and environment controls.
Define and enforce Salesforce development standards, architectural guidelines, and deployment workflows.
Collaborate closely with Product owner, architects, and App Team to manage branching strategies, quality gates, and deployment plans using Copado and GitHub.
Work with Architect and product owner and take inputs from App teams to drive the continuous maturity of the DevOps for the platform.
Onboard new developers with clear guidance on access provisioning, dev standards, and team workflows.
Maintain and enhance development hygiene by overseeing code reviews, maintaining test coverage, and ensuring documentation is current.
Govern and guide developers through retrospectives and continuous improvement cycles.
This role is critical in creating a scalable and secure Salesforce development ecosystem that supports enterprise-grade delivery for commercial life sciences applications.

Soft skills/other skills - To be Evaluated by Hiring Manager (To define how this will be evaluated)

Communication Skills:
Communicate effectively with internal and customer stakeholders
Communication approach: verbal, emails and instant messages
Interpersonal Skills:
Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain productive relationships with team members
Provide constructive feedback during code reviews and be open to receiving feedback on your own code.
Problem-Solving and Analytical Thinking:
Capability to troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently.
Analytical mindset
Task/ Work Updates
Prior experience in working on Agile/Scrum projects with exposure to tools like Jira
Provides regular updates, proactive and due diligent to carry out responsibilities

Expected Outcome

We are seeking a Lead SFDC DevOps Engineer, who will be responsible for driving and overseeing DevOps best practices across multiple Salesforce teams while ensuring streamlined deployment processes, secure environments, and consistent development standards. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends technical execution with governance and enablement. Establish DevOps pipelines, workflows, automation and Coding standard adherence automation. Perform Quarterly platform release management.

Secondary Skills to be planned Post Hiring - Training Plan

Salesforce Platform Developer I/II or Application Architect certifications
Knowledge of other DevOps tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bitbucket
Exposure to Salesforce Veeva CRM or life sciences domain-specific deployments
Basic understanding of test automation frameworks for Salesforce
Experience with Lightning Web Components (LWC) and Apex