Director Salesforce Technical Lead

IB Tech, CRM & Analytics is a strategic, agile and cross-functional team responsible for leading the firm's global digitalization effort through innovative technology, data science and deep analytics. The team partners with all client-facing business units and corporate functions, as well as industry experts, to build transformational technology impacting investment banking, trading, sales, and research teams to drive revenue, maximize efficiency, and optimize client service.

 We are at the forefront of Jefferies' cloud initiative, leveraging best-in-class cloud-based technologies to replace legacy on-premises solutions to provide intelligent trend insights, actionable opportunities, decision support, and transparency into all client and business-related activities. 

Job Summary:  Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Ownership & Delivery: Own workstreams end-to-end — technical approach, patterns, delivery quality, and timeline. Own commitments to senior stakeholders.
• Complex Engineering: Design and build the highest-consequence pieces — parallel integration orchestration, compliance-grade audit architectures, config-driven framework extensions, data models with regulatory correctness requirements.
• Pattern Setting: Define reusable integration adapters, async strategies, error handling, and component architecture standards. Review critical PRs as final technical checkpoint.
• Team Leadership & Global Coordination: Lead engineers across a globally distributed practice. Own delivery cadence, align priorities across time zones. Responsible for team performance, career development, and technical growth.
• Engineering Unblocking: The escalation layer for the engineering team. Resolve ambiguous integration contracts, governor limit constraints, framework conflicts, cross-cutting concerns.
• Innovation & Governance: Evaluate emerging capabilities and drives innovation. Participate in architecture review forums. Evaluate and select engineering tools for the workstream.
• Code Quality & Standards: Set the bar - testing strategy, review standards, deployment guardrails. Hold the team accountable.

Mandatory Qualifications & Skills:

• LWC framework architecture — config-driven component systems, dynamic metadata rendering, cross-component state patterns, Custom Metadata as application configuration.
• Apex at platform level — async orchestration, bulkification standards, partial failure handling as team-wide convention. Salesforce security architecture — sharing model design, platform encryption.
• Multi-system integration — adapter patterns, error contracts, retry strategies, graceful degradation. Platform Events, CDC, Named Credentials, External Services.
• Audit-grade data architecture & performance profiling — immutable history, point-in-time snapshots, regulatory-defensible design. Large data volume strategies and archival patterns.
• Has led and scaled distributed Salesforce engineering teams across time zones. Owns delivery commitments to senior stakeholders, defends platform architecture trade-offs. 
• Good to Have: TypeScript. Test automation. AWS (Lambda, S3, API Gateway).

Education & Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• 12+ years of relevant experience, with at least 3 years of owing platform level technical decisions.
• Financial Services background
• Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II
• Salesforce Certified Application Architect or System Architect (strongly preferred).

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