Salesforce Integration Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Salesforce integration developers in end-to-end delivery of integration solutions across enterprise applications and platforms.

• Own sprint-level delivery of Salesforce integration workstreams planning, execution, quality, and release aligned to the integration architecture.

• Collaborate with solution architects and business analysts to translate integration requirements into technical designs and implementation tasks.

• Build and maintain APIs, middleware integrations, event-driven solutions, and data synchronization flows using Salesforce platform capabilities and integration tools.

• Lead hands-on development using REST/SOAP APIs, MuleSoft, Boomi, Informatica, or other enterprise integration platforms; set implementation standards for the team.

• Conduct code reviews, enforce coding standards, and ensure integration solutions meet performance, scalability, security, and compliance requirements.

• Analyze the existing integration landscape (connectors, middleware, data flows, and SLAs) and propose modernization approaches API-first, event-driven, middleware consolidation, or cloud-native patterns with migration impact and roll-out plans.

• Troubleshoot complex integration issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.

• Mentor and guide developers on Salesforce integration patterns, platform best practices, and coding standards.

• Produce and maintain implementation-level documentation including integration flow diagrams, API mappings, runbooks, and test plans.

• Coordinate with QA, DevOps, and release management teams to support testing, deployment, and production support activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.

• 8+ years of experience in Salesforce development and integration, with at least 3 years in a technical lead capacity.

• Strong hands-on experience with Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Salesforce Platform capabilities.

• Proficiency in Salesforce APIs, Apex, Lightning Components, and integration frameworks.

• Experience building and delivering integrations using middleware platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, Informatica, or similar.

• Solid understanding of REST APIs, SOAP services, ETL processes, and data integration patterns.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments; able to manage team workload across sprints.

Preferred Skills

• Salesforce Platform Developer or Administrator certification.

• MuleSoft Anypoint Platform implementation experience.

• Event-driven architecture implementation (Kafka, Pub/Sub).

• API management and gateway configuration experience.

• OAuth, SAML, JWT, and security protocol implementation experience.

• CI/CD and DevOps practices for integration pipelines.

• Salesforce Integration Architect or Application Architect certification (desirable, not required).

Experience

• 8 12+ years of overall IT experience.

• 3+ years leading Salesforce integration delivery teams in enterprise programmes.