Senior Salesforce Platform Lead & AI Innovator

CFA Institute; Virginia (IL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

401(k) / pension plan

Comprehensive medical benefits

Health coverage

Flexible work options

Wellbeing and development programs

Job summary

CFA Institute is undergoing a major Salesforce platform transformation. We seek a Principal Developer to lead hands-on engineering, mentor peers, and partner with Product Owners to shape secure, scalable solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Data Cloud.

This is a lead technical contributor role reporting to the Platform Owner, Salesforce, with responsibility for governance, strategy, and driving modern development practices across the team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience, with 7+ years hands-on Salesforce development.
• Expertise in Apex, LWC, Flows, Salesforce APIs, SOQL/SOSL and security.
• Proven track record leading code reviews and mentoring developers.
• Experience partnering with Product Owners and business stakeholders.
• Enterprise-scale cross-functional collaboration across geographies.
• Salesforce Platform Developer I certification and Agile/DevOps exposure.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy Salesforce solutions across Sales/Service/Experience/Data Cloud.
• Maintain a hands-on role: coding, integrations, testing, deployments, and production support.
• Lead code reviews and PRs; mentor other Salesforce developers.
• Partner with Product Owners to translate complex business needs into scalable solutions.
• Contribute to governance, roadmap, release management, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Apex

Lightning Web Components

Salesforce APIs

SOQL/SOSL

Security

Code reviews

Product Owner partnering

DevOps

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Salesforce Platform Developer I

Job description

CFA Institute is undergoing a major Salesforce platform transformation. We seek a Principal Developer to lead hands-on engineering, mentor peers, and partner with Product Owners to shape secure, scalable solutions across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Data Cloud.

This is a lead technical contributor role reporting to the Platform Owner, Salesforce, with responsibility for governance, strategy, and driving modern development practices across the team.