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Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.\nWith more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.\nRole Overview\nThe Salesforce Lead Developer is responsible for leading the design, development, integration, and delivery of Salesforce solutions supporting the Client Onboarding & Enrollments portfolio.\nThis is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for building scalable, secure, maintainable, and high-performing solutions on the Salesforce platform. 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declarative configuration and custom development.\nDesign solutions with consideration for Salesforce platform constraints, performance, scalability, security, and maintainability.\nTroubleshoot complex application and production issues and drive root-cause resolution.\nApex, LWC, APIs, integrations, unit testing and code review are core elements commonly associated with Lead Salesforce Developer responsibilities.\nIntegration & Enterprise Architecture\nDesign and implement integrations between Salesforce and internal/external enterprise platforms.\nDevelop and maintain REST APIs, web services, event-driven integrations, and asynchronous processing solutions.\nPartner with enterprise and solution architects to define integration patterns and technical standards.\nEnsure integrations are resilient, secure, observable, and scalable.\nSupport solutions involving Salesforce and cloud-native or distributed enterprise applications.\nDrive effective data exchange and synchronization while maintaining appropriate system-of-record boundaries.\nPlatform Engineering & DevOps\nChampion automated CI/CD, source control, testing, release management, and DevOps practices for Salesforce development.\nEstablish consistent development and deployment practices across Salesforce engineering teams.\nImprove automated testing and deployment quality to reduce production risk.\nPartner with DevOps and platform teams to improve development environments and release processes.\nDrive improvements in application logging, monitoring, alerting, and production support.\nEngineering Quality\nEstablish and enforce development standards for Apex, LWC, integrations, automation, and configuration.\nPromote clean-code principles and modular, reusable solution patterns.\nChampion automated unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.\nIdentify and address technical debt, performance issues, and maintainability concerns.\nEnsure solutions are designed for operational supportability and long-term sustainability.\nSecurity, Risk & Governance\nDesign Salesforce solutions aligned with enterprise security and data-protection requirements.\nApply appropriate Salesforce security controls, including permissions, access controls, sharing, and data security.\nIdentify and mitigate technology, operational, data, and security risks.\nProactively address platform vulnerabilities and technical risks.\nEnsure applications adhere to organizational architecture standards, development standards, security policies, and governance requirements.\nSupport regulatory and audit requirements associated with enterprise and financial-services applications.\nTeam Leadership & Mentoring\nProvide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Salesforce developers.\nGuide engineers through design discussions, code reviews, troubleshooting, and technical deep dives.\nHelp developers strengthen Salesforce platform, integration, DevOps, and engineering capabilities.\nPromote ownership, accountability, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.\nWork closely with architects and other engineering leads on technical direction and platform strategy.\nTechnical leadership, mentoring, architecture coordination, code review, and addressing technical debt are consistent with expectations for a Salesforce Lead Developer.\nCollaboration & Delivery\nPartner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Security, and Operations.\nTranslate complex business requirements into effective Salesforce solution designs.\nParticipate actively in Agile planning, design, estimation, development, and delivery.\nCommunicate technical decisions, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nCollaborate effectively across globally distributed engineering teams.\nProactively identify delivery and technology risks and recommend pragmatic solutions.\nRequired Qualifications\nTechnical Skills\n7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant Salesforce development experience.\nStrong hands-on expertise with: ApexLightning Web Components (LWC)SOQL/SOSL Salesforce APIs and integrationsSalesforce Flow and declarative automationTriggers and asynchronous processingSalesforce data modeling and security\nStrong understanding of Salesforce platform architecture and development best practices.\nExperience designing and implementing enterprise integrations using REST APIs and web services.\nExperience with source control, CI/CD, deployment automation, and DevOps practices.\nStrong understanding of automated testing and application quality practices.\nExperience troubleshooting performance, integration, data, and production issues.\nUnderstanding of enterprise security, authentication, authorization, and data-protection principles.\nSalesforce-focused developer roles commonly require both programmatic skills such as Apex and JavaScript/LWC and knowledge of declarative capabilities, data models, security, and automation.\nLeadership & Professional Skills\nProven ability to lead complex Salesforce development initiatives.\nStrong mentoring and technical leadership capabilities.\nAbility to influence technical decisions and drive engineering standards.\nStrong analytical, design, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills.\nAbility to work effectively with Product, Business, Architecture, QA, and Engineering stakeholders.\nComfortable operating in a fast-paced, globally distributed enterprise environment.\nEducation & Experience\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.\n7+ years of overall software engineering experience.\nStrong experience delivering enterprise Salesforce solutions.\nExperience working within Agile delivery environments.\nExperience with client onboarding, workflow automation, digital products, or transaction-processing applications within financial services is preferred.\nPreferred Qualifications\nSalesforce Platform Developer certification(s).\nSalesforce architecture-related certification or equivalent architecture experience.\nExperience with large-scale Salesforce implementations and modernization initiatives.\nExperience integrating Salesforce with Java/microservices-based enterprise applications.\nExperience with event-driven architectures and enterprise integration platforms.\nExperience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.\nExperience with AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering productivity practices.\nExperience working in highly regulated, enterprise-grade environments.\nSalary Range:\n$99,600 - 169,200 USDSalary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.\nWork Authorization\nApplicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).\nWorking with Us\nAs a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.\nPhilanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.\nReasonable Accommodation\nNorthern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. 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