Lead Salesforce Developer
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania or Dallas, Texas or Denver, Colorado
Contract: W2 only, 12 month contract with potential for extension or conversion to full time with either the client or CEI
Pay: $65/hour + optional medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match
Overview
This role requires a principal-level individual contributor with deep expertise in Salesforce development. Acting as a cross-team technical leader without direct authority, they will influence decisions, serve as an escalation point for risks, and coordinate development work. The position offers an opportunity to develop Salesforce experience and learn new technologies in the industry, providing a creative work environment for those with a curious mindset and a strong desire to learn.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a cross-team technical leader without direct authority, influencing decisions and coordinating development work.
- Define and enforce coding standards, guardrails, and best practices aligned with developer framework standards, security, and compliance mandates.
- Strong communication skills are essential to translate platform constraints into actionable guidance for developers, architects, and engineering leaders, and to clearly articulate tradeoffs during planning.
- Support SSE/EDGE development within the bank/LOB.
- Collaborate with testers, BSAs, scrum masters, product owners, and integration partners.
- Ensure completion of deadlines upon accuracy, limited bugs in QA, Jira, and production deployments without issues.
- Participate in interviews and technical assessments as part of the hiring process.
- Support potential periodic travel and as-needed deployments.
Required Skills
- Salesforce Development Experience (minimum 7 years)
- Apex (minimum 5 years experience)
- Cloud integration experience (minimum 3 years)
- Salesforce Certification(s)
- Strong knowledge of Salesforce platform and security standards
- Excellent communication skills for translating technical constraints
- Ability to influence and coordinate across teams without direct authority
- Experience working with testers, BSAs, scrum masters, and product owners
- Data analysis skills (bonus)
- AI tool experience such as CoPilot (bonus)
- Java (bonus)
Required Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (preferred)
- HS Diploma with tech certification is acceptable, emphasizing work experience
Preferred Skills
- Data analysis
- AI tool experience such as CoPilot
Why Should I Apply?
This position offers a unique opportunity to grow your Salesforce expertise and learn new industry technologies like Kafka and cloud-based solutions. It is not a support role but a chance to advance your career in a creative and growth-oriented environment.
About CEI:
As a trusted technology partner, CEI delivers solutions that help our customers transform their business and achieve meaningful results. From strategy and custom application development through application management - our technology and digital experience services are tailored to meet each unique need of our customers. Our staffing solutions bring specialized skills to complement our customers' workforce and project requirements.
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