Senior Salesforce Engineer - Hybrid

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Job Description

The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking a contract Salesforce Solution Engineer to design and deliver end-to-end solutions on Salesforce Government Cloud for Child welfare program applications. This role supports mission-critical public-sector programs across case management, licensing, service operations, and related workflows. The position ensures all solutions align with program objectives, technical standards, security requirements, and long-term platform strategy while leveraging both declarative and programmatic capabilities to build scalable, maintainable systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Discovery and requirements: Lead technical discovery sessions with product owners and program stakeholders to define requirements, evaluate solution options, and recommend best-fit approaches.
• Design and engineering: Lead integration designs, blueprinting and configuration strategies.
• Development: Develop Apex, Lightning Web Components, Flows, and system integrations following established engineering practices and platform governance.
• Release management readiness: Review Salesforce Spring, Summer, and Winter release notes to identify breaking changes, deprecations, new settings, and feature impacts. Assessing platform updates affect existing systems and integrations.
• AI-enablement: Apply AI-driven approaches to enhance Salesforce solutions, including identifying practical use cases, incorporating intelligent automation, and ensuring responsible and compliant use of emerging technologies.

Skills/Requirements

• Hands-on Salesforce experience across configuration, customization, and solution design. Required 5 Years
• Strong hands-on development experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components, and integration development in enterprise environments. Required 5 Years
• Experience supporting public-sector, regulated, or compliance-heavy programs (or equivalent experience in complex multi-team environments). Required 3 Years
• Experience leading technical discovery, design sessions, or development teams in a senior or lead capacity. Required 2 Years