Title: Salesforce Technical Lead (Financial Services Cloud)
Work Location: Montreal, QC/Toronto, ON (4 Days onsite)
Pay Rate: CAD $80-$90/hour
Contract
Job Description:
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:
Salesforce FSC
Sales Cloud
Service Cloud
Apex
Lightning Web Components (LWC)
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 (Client, PwC, EY, KPMG) 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.
