Salesforce Developer

First Horizon Bank; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Horizon Bank is seeking a Salesforce IT Developer to lead the design, development, and execution of advanced programmatic solutions for our digital banking strategy.

With 16+ years of Salesforce experience, you will architect FSC deployments, govern secure integrations, and push modern SDLC practices using Windsurf, Copilot, and other AI tools, in a high-volume enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering or equivalent.
• 16+ years of progressive Salesforce experience in a financial services setting.

Responsibilities

• Architect FSC configurations and multi-tenant data models.
• Develop and integrate Salesforce with core banking systems via SOAP/REST APIs.
• Lead DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and code quality initiatives.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate SDLC and delivery of secure solutions.

Skills

Apex programming

SOQL/SOSL

Salesforce Lightning

Security & compliance

SDLC & DevOps

AI coding tools

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

SFDX CLI

GitHub Actions

Copado

Flosum

Jenkins

Windsurf

GitHub Copilot

Job description

As a Salesforce IT Developer, you will serve as the chief technical engineer responsible for designing, developing, and executing complex programmatic solutions that drive our digital banking strategy. This role demands a masterful technical capability to transform sophisticated financial workflows, regulatory compliance frameworks, and high-volume data structures into seamless cloud architectures.

Leveraging an extensive background of 10+ years of Salesforce platform expertise, the successful candidate will lead technical delivery, govern code quality, and implement secure, low-latency integrations. Furthermore, the ideal candidate will pioneer modern Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies by utilizing advanced AI coding assistants and deploying Salesforce’s latest native AI innovations.

Core Responsibilities & Job Duties

1. Enterprise Architecture & System Design

• Financial Services Cloud (FSC) Engineering : Architect end-to-end declarative and programmatic configurations within FSC to model intricate retail and commercial banking structures, relationship groups, and financial accounts.

• Technical Blueprinting : Formulate technical design documents, system blueprints, and data models optimized for multi-tenant enterprise environments.

• Security & Compliance Modeling : Translate strict financial regulations, data governance acts, and banking compliance policies into robust Salesforce sharing rules, profiles, and field-level security frameworks.

2. Advanced Programmatic Development

• Apex Automation Engineering : Utilize APEX to design scalable, object-oriented programmatic patterns, building bulletproof Triggers , asynchronous Batch Processes , queueable jobs, and scheduled actions optimized for Large Data Volumes (LDV).

• Modern Framework User Interfaces : Engineer interactive, responsive, and high-performing client/employee-facing digital experiences using Salesforce Lightning (Lightning Web Components (LWC) and Aura components).

• Legacy Refactoring : Maintain, optimize, and refactor existing Visualforce pages and controller extensions, systematically migrating legacy frameworks to modern component-based models.

• Database Query Optimization : Design highly efficient data retrieval mechanisms using Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL) and SOSL, applying custom indexing and query tuning to prevent governor limit time-outs.

3. Enterprise Integration & API Engineering

• Web Service Integrations : Build, test, and deploy secure, real-time inbound and outbound integrations between Salesforce and core banking systems using custom SOAP/REST APIs .

• Event-Driven Architectures : Implement streaming data pipelines utilizing Salesforce Platform Events, Change Data Capture (CDC), and Pub/Sub APIs to ensure instantaneous multi-platform data synchronization.

• Authentication Governance : Configure secure communication protocols, including OAuth 2.0, SAML-based Single Sign-On (SSO), and Named Credentials to protect critical financial infrastructure.

4. AI-Driven SDLC Acceleration & Cutting-Edge Innovation

• AI Coding Assistance : Maximize development velocity and minimize technical debt by seamlessly incorporating market-leading AI coding assistants, such as Windsurf , Cursor, or GitHub Copilot, directly into daily SDLC workflows.

• Salesforce AI Engineering : Design and implement native, cutting-edge Salesforce AI technologies, including Einstein 1 Platform, Einstein Copilot, Prompt Builder, and Agentforce solutions, to automate banking operations and deliver personalized client experiences.

• Intelligent Automation : Leverage Salesforce Data Cloud alongside AI engines to ingest, unify, and run predictive analytics on complex financial data sets.

5. Release Management & DevOps Governance

• CI/CD Pipeline Management : Establish and govern automated deployment pipelines using modern Salesforce DevOps infrastructure (SFDX CLI, GitHub Actions, Copado, Flosum, or Jenkins).

• Code Quality Assurance : Enforce strict code quality metrics via automated static analysis tools and guarantee a minimum of 85%+ comprehensive unit test coverage.

• Technical Mentorship : Lead technical code reviews, establish enterprise development standards, and mentor mid-level developers on platform best practices.

Minimum Position Requirements

A. Education

• Degree Requirement : A Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, a closely related technical field, or an evaluated foreign equivalent.

B. Experience

• Total Industry Profile : 16+ years of progressive hands-on experience within the Salesforce ecosystem, with deep immersion in a large financial institution or banking environment.

• Required Tenure : Minimum of 5 years of experience in the job offered or a related software engineering position, alongside 5 years of specialized development experience explicitly encompassing:

• Comprehensive design and development experience using APEX .

• Hands-on engineering of SOAP/REST APIs integrations.

• Building complex Apex Triggers , asynchronous batch processes , and Visualforce assets.

• Deep proficiency writing optimized Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL) queries.

• Full lifecycle development using Salesforce Lightning (LWC / Aura).

C. Other Requirements

• Professional Credentials : Must hold multiple active Salesforce Certifications .

• Highly Preferred: Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I & II, Salesforce Certified Financial Services Cloud Consultant, and/or Certified Application/System Architect.

• AI Competency : Demonstrated capability using AI-powered development environments (like Windsurf ) for rapid prototyping, and foundational knowledge of Salesforce Einstein/Agentforce platform tools.

Job Identification: 1317

Job Category: Support

Job Schedule: Full time

Degree Level: Bachelor's Degree