Posting will close August 2, 2026.
Location is flexible, within Alberta, dependent on the successful applicant.
The Technical Lead provides hands-on technical leadership for enterprise-scale Salesforce implementations, driving architectural direction, engineering excellence, and the successful delivery of scalable, secure, and maintainable digital platforms. This role is accountable for the end-to-end technical health and evolution of Salesforce and adjacent platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, integration patterns, and industry best practices.
This role plays a critical leadership function in modernizing legacy Salesforce implementations, advancing Lightning Web Runtime (LWR), Vlocity (Industries), nCino, and Visualforce-to-Lightning migrations, while enabling seamless integration across the broader enterprise ecosystem.
Although there are no direct reports, the Technical Lead mentors teams, drives technical consistency, and elevates engineering capability across Digital Services.
What will your growth opportunities look like in this role?- Expand into enterprise architecture leadership, shaping Salesforce platform strategy and cross-system integration standards
- Act as a thought leader in Salesforce modernization, influencing adoption of LWR, composable architectures, and industry clouds (Vlocity)
- Enhance leadership capabilities, progressing toward Technical Manager, Principal Engineer, or Enterprise Architect roles
- Drive enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, including cloud modernization, API-first architecture, and platform convergence
What will you be responsible for?- Provide enterprise-level technical leadership for Salesforce platforms, establishing architecture standards, design patterns, and governance frameworks
- Lead large-scale Salesforce implementations and transformations, including:
- Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) adoption and experience layer modernization
- Vlocity (Salesforce Industries) implementations and data models
- nCino platform integration within financial services ecosystems
- Visualforce-to-Lightning (Aura/LWC) migration strategies
- Define and enforce best practices for Salesforce architecture, including:
- Domain-driven design and modularization
- Secure development and data governance
- Performance optimization and scalability patterns
- Drive enterprise integration architecture, including:
- API-first and event-driven design
- Integration patterns across Salesforce, Azure, Boomi and other downstream systems
- Middleware and orchestration strategies (REST, Pub/Sub, platform events)
- Guide and mentor development by:
- Leading complex builds across LWC, Apex, and platform services
- Setting standards for code quality, testing, and DevOps pipelines
- Resolving complex platform, integration, and performance issues
- Drive platform modernization initiatives, including:
- Migration from legacy Visualforce and Aura frameworks to LWC/LWR
- Adoption of scalable front-end architectures
- Rationalization of technical debt within all enterprise environments
- Evaluation and adoption of Salesforce AI capabilities, including Agentforce and Einstein, to enhance customer and employee experiences
- Lead CI/CD and DevOps practices, enabling:
- Automated deployments and environment management
- Improved deployment frequency
- Source-driven development and packaging strategies
- Consistent release governance across teams
- Coach and mentor engineers, promoting:
- Salesforce platform expertise and certifications
- Adoption of best practices and reusable patterns
- Continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
- Support delivery and risk management by:
- Identifying enterprise-level technical risks early
- Ensuring alignment between roadmap, architecture, and delivery
- Improving platform reliability, observability, and supportability
What are we looking for from you?- Extensive enterprise-scale Salesforce implementation experience, including leading multi-team, multi-cloud deployments across complex business domains
- Deep hands-on expertise across:
- Salesforce core platform (Sales, Service, Experience Cloud)
- Financial Services Cloud, including industry-specific configurations, data models, and capabilities
- Lightning Web Components (LWC) and Lightning Web Runtime (LWR)
- Vlocity / Salesforce Industries (OmniStudio) frameworks and architecture
- nCino platform implementation and integration
- Strong proficiency in data management and data modeling, including:
- Enterprise data architecture within Salesforce
- Complex object modeling, governance, and optimization strategies
- Data quality, lineage, and lifecycle management
- Demonstrated hands-on expertise in:
- Apex programming and Salesforce backend architecture
- JavaScript and modern front-end frameworks
- Lightning Web Components (LWC) and Visualforce, including modernization and migration strategies
- OmniStudio (OmniScripts, DataRaptors, Integration Procedures)
- Proven experience modernizing legacy Salesforce environments, including:
- Visualforce and Aura migrations to LWC/LWR
- Refactoring tightly coupled solutions into scalable, modular architectures
- Strong expertise in enterprise integration patterns, including:
- API-first and event-driven architecture
- Integration across enterprise systems
- Use of platform events, middleware, and orchestration layers
- Advanced understanding of:
- Version control and branching strategies (e.g., Git-based workflows)
- Testing methodologies, including unit, integration, and automated testing in Salesforce
- Security architecture, including authentication, authorization, data protection, and compliance
- Deep knowledge of Salesforce platform administration and operations, including:
- User management and role hierarchy design
- Sharing models and complex sharing logic
- System maintenance, environment strategy, and release governance
- Demonstrated ability to define and enforce Salesforce best practices, including:
- Coding standards and reusable design patterns
- Secure and scalable architecture principles
- DevOps and CI/CD enablement (Azure DevOps or similar)
- Strong influence and communication skills, with the ability to:
- Guide architecture across multiple teams and domains
- Partner with enterprise architects and business stakeholders
- Drive alignment on platform strategy and engineering standards
Before you apply
Candidates should be comfortable discussing real examples of:
- Enterprise Salesforce architecture, including scalable design, data modelling, sharing, security, and platform governance.
- Hands-on Salesforce development using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce/Aura modernization, and platform services.
- Salesforce integrations using APIs, middleware, event-driven patterns, Platform Events, CDC, Pub/Sub, Azure, Boomi, or similar technologies.
- Salesforce DevOps, including Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, release governance, and environment management.
- Salesforce modernization involving LWR, Experience Cloud, OmniStudio/Vlocity, nCino, or complex managed package ecosystems.
- Technical leadership, including mentoring developers, reviewing code/designs, setting standards, and influencing technical direction across teams.
Qualifications- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a Technical Lead or Senior Engineer role.
Preferred Certifications- Salesforce Certified Administrator
- Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I
- Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II
- Salesforce Certified OmniStudio Developer
- Salesforce Certified Application Architect
- Salesforce Certified System Architect
- Salesforce Certified Integration Architecture Designer
