Senior Salesforce Platform Lead - Dev & Admin

Hansell Tierney; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hansell Tierney in Seattle seeks an experienced Salesforce Developer to lead ongoing development, administration, and enhancement of its Salesforce platform in a private family office setting. This role emphasizes building custom solutions with Apex, LWCs, and integrations while supporting users and governance.

The team collaborates with a Salesforce partner in a fast-paced environment. The position requires seven+ years of experience, strong architecture knowledge, and demonstrated ability to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Seven or more years of Salesforce development experience.
• Experience balancing Salesforce development with platform administration, configuration, and user support.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce data architecture, object relationships, security, permissions, sharing rules, and governance.
• Experience designing and building Salesforce Flows, including screen flows and guided user experiences.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrations between Salesforce and external applications or data sources.
• Experience improving and extending an existing Salesforce environment with limited documentation.
• Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, internal customer service, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort working independently within a small, collaborative, non-technical team.
• Ability to create structure and establish best practices in an evolving environment.
• Experience using source control tools such as Git and following established software development and release practices.
• Ability to work in a highly-confidential environment, including not having access to some industry-standard tools due to privacy considerations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the organization’s primary Salesforce developer and internal platform expert.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain custom Salesforce applications and functionality.
• Build custom solutions using Apex, Lightning Web Components, Salesforce APIs, Flows, and other Salesforce development tools.
• Improve and extend the existing Salesforce environment to support evolving grantmaking, research, gift processing, relationship management, and operational needs.
• Design intuitive screen flows and user experiences for internal staff and grant recipients.
• Improve grant recipient onboarding, surveys, information collection, and other external-facing Salesforce interactions.
• Design and maintain Salesforce data models, custom objects, relationships, workflows, automations, and integrations.
• Develop and maintain integrations between Salesforce, external partners, public databases, and other business applications.
• Manage day-to-day Salesforce administration, including fields, permissions, user access, data quality, reports, dashboards, and system configuration.
• Support employee onboarding, training, and ongoing user adoption.
• Coach non-technical users and help internal teams better understand Salesforce capabilities and best practices.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into practical, scalable technical solutions.
• Liaise with internal grantmaking team and respond to their needs, including report requests, with agility.
• Review the existing Salesforce environment and recommend and execute improvements that increase usability, efficiency, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Create and maintain shared system documentation, technical designs, development standards, and operating procedures.
• Establish appropriate development, testing, release management, and deployment practices.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and implement sustainable solutions.
• Partner with the organization’s external Salesforce development firm, using sound judgment to determine when outside expertise is needed.
• Help manage the external partner’s work while protecting confidential organizational and grant recipient data.
• Stay current with Salesforce platform releases and recommend relevant enhancements.

Skills

Apex

Lightning Web Components

Salesforce APIs

Flows

Data modeling

Git

Security & governance

User training

Requirements gathering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Software Eng

Tools

Git

Salesforce DX

Workbench

Job description

Hansell Tierney in Seattle seeks an experienced Salesforce Developer to lead ongoing development, administration, and enhancement of its Salesforce platform in a private family office setting. This role emphasizes building custom solutions with Apex, LWCs, and integrations while supporting users and governance.

The team collaborates with a Salesforce partner in a fast-paced environment. The position requires seven+ years of experience, strong architecture knowledge, and demonstrated ability to