Salesforce Platform Engineer

Salesforce Platform Engineer - 100% Remote

Contact: Ayush Dwivedi; Ph: [email protected] (for quick apply)

W2 Only!

The Platform Engineer plays a crucial role in delivering the core capabilities and features of a strategic platform. This position is responsible for the delivery of platform enablers, including the design, build, security, and operationalization of reusable components to support business products. The Platform Engineer is expected to maintain deep technical knowledge of capabilities and features to create platform patterns and technical best practices, aiming to increase adoption, operational efficiency, and realized business value for Financial Services. This is considered advanced-level work.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the design, engineering, implementation, and configuration of platform services to support overall enterprise patterns and reinforce best practices.
• Develop patterns for common platform needs (e.g., logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, encryption, tooling) across all layers of the platform and supporting services.
• Deliver explicit APIs and abstractions that offer flexibility for application developers in leveraging the platform.
• Collaborate with business and technology partners to identify, define, interpret, and clarify the scope of Salesforce platform integrations.
• Partner with Information Security representatives to develop, implement, and/or execute security configurations and controls.
• Support and refine the platform's utilization strategy, enhancing its overall architecture, security, performance, and financial aspects.
• Contribute to platform, product, and architectural roadmaps.

Platform Administration:

• Perform development of common Salesforce platform components, capabilities, and features.
• Conduct development and advanced configuration activities, including custom objects and fields, dashboards, reports, workflows, rules, automations, and triggers.
• Experience with Salesforce screen flow and login flow.
• Create integrations and/or connectors between Salesforce.com and other third-party applications.
• Manage core security model configurations in accordance with information security policies.

Operational Excellence:

• Provide Tier 3 Support for core platform services and configuration defect resolution.
• Perform new Salesforce release evaluations and assess their impact.
• Develop and maintain automation for deployments to reduce manual processes and improve efficiencies across systems and data centers.
• Lead solution design discussions, develop work effort estimates for implementation, and present solutions.
• Draft and maintain solution documentation for platform components, integrations, and common use patterns to meet all architectural, security, and operational requirements as defined by the larger client system.
• Provide training, coaching, and support for issues related to the Salesforce platform to experienced and product teams.

Top 3 Hard Skills:

• Experience in Salesforce Security Model
• Experience in Salesforce Integration Patterns
• Experience in Salesforce Flow Optimization
• Experience in Data Cloud is preferred.

Top 3 Soft Skills:

• Collaboration/Teamwork
• Adaptability (adjusts to changes in priorities)
• Critical Thinking (applies objective analysis and reasoning)

Top 5 Must-Have Hard Skills:

Salesforce DevOps & CI/CD:

• Fluency in modern DevOps practices, familiarity with source-driven development, Salesforce CLI, experience with CI/CD pipelines, and ability to manage sandbox strategies, versioning, branching models, and automated testing.

Apex & Salesforce Coding Experience:

• Proficiency with Apex classes, triggers, asynchronous processing, and batch jobs.
• Experience with Data Loader is preferable.
• Understanding of governor limits, performance optimization, and secure coding on the Salesforce platform.

Data Modeling & Salesforce Architecture:

• Understanding of large data volumes, indexing, and query performance.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce limits, multi-object architecture, and scalable patterns.
• Expertise in schema optimization and sharing/model security.

Automated Testing & Quality Engineering:

• Experience with end-to-end testing, familiarity with SFDX test automation.
• Ensure code quality through static analysis, unit testing, and test automation.

Security & Governance:

• Strong understanding of Salesforce security layers.
• Ability to design least-privilege, scalable access models.
• Familiarity with common compliance frameworks.
• Ability to implement change-management controls, auditability, and release governance using SFDX+CI/CD.

Team Size: This opening is on our Salesforce platform team (3 engineers with 1 tech lead).

Day-to-Day Expectations: This role involves close daily collaboration with other engineers and the technical lead, supporting multiple Salesforce application teams. The engineer is responsible for maintaining platform stability, partnering with IT and Security teams, and enabling efficient, reliable delivery of feature enhancements and hotfixes.

Background:

• Experience in the CRM, Customer Support, Sales, and Marketing domain.
• Experience with the overall Salesforce platform and working knowledge of Salesforce integration approaches.
• Experience delivering Salesforce solutions from design to production.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with third-party solutions.
• Experience engineering solutions across heterogeneous datacenter, cloud, and SaaS environments.
• Experience using standard development practices.
• Experience with change management systems and processes.
• Experience in troubleshooting, diagnosis, and problem-solving.
• Experience with scripting languages (PowerShell or shell scripting).
• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes (Gitlab).
• Platform certification is a plus.
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) highly desired.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of direct work-related experience.

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About Stefanini Group:

The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore, and nearshore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises worldwide. With a presence in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, we serve over four hundred clients across a broad spectrum of markets, including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, the public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM level 5 IT consulting company with a global presence.