Salesforce Technical Lead

Job Title: Salesforce Technical Lead (Financial Services Cloud)

Location: Toronto, ON / Montreal, QC (Hybrid), F2F interview required

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Technical Lead to lead the design, architecture, and implementation of enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions for a major Canadian banking client. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Salesforce Financial Services Cloud (FSC), enterprise solution design, and large-scale implementations within complex, highly regulated environments.

This role requires a hands‑on technical leader who can collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, development teams, and vendor partners to deliver scalable, secure, and high‑performing Salesforce solutions that align with industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end‑to‑end technical design, architecture, and implementation of Salesforce solutions, with a strong focus on Financial Services Cloud (FSC).
• Design scalable and secure Salesforce architectures aligned with enterprise standards and Salesforce best practices.
• Provide technical leadership across solution design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Drive architecture and design discussions with business, product, and technology stakeholders.
• Lead development teams and perform technical reviews to ensure quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Design and implement integrations between Salesforce and enterprise banking systems using APIs, middleware, and event‑driven architectures.
• Establish development standards, governance frameworks, and CI/CD best practices.
• Mentor developers and technical team members while fostering engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Delivery Leads to define implementation roadmaps.
• Ensure solutions comply with security, risk, regulatory, and data governance requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall IT experience.
• 8+ years of hands‑on Salesforce experience including solution design and technical leadership.
• Proven experience leading large‑scale Salesforce Financial Services Cloud (FSC) implementations.
• Demonstrated experience delivering Salesforce solutions for organizations with 1,000+ Salesforce users.
• Strong expertise in:
• Service Cloud
• Apex
• Visualforce
• Salesforce APIs and Integrations
• Platform Events
• Flow and Automation
• Security & Sharing Model
• Extensive experience with enterprise integration patterns and API‑led architectures.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce development lifecycle, DevOps, CI/CD, and release management.
• Experience leading distributed and cross‑functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working with a Big 4 consulting firm or a leading global consulting organization.
• Experience delivering Salesforce transformations within Banking, Wealth Management, Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, or Financial Services domains.
• Salesforce Application Architect and/or System Architect certifications.
• Salesforce Financial Services Cloud Accreditation or Certification.
• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies and large transformation programs.
• Knowledge of cloud integration platforms such as MuleSoft is highly desirable.