Senior Salesforce Developer (Chicago)

Job Title: Senior Salesforce Azure DevOps Engineer with HealthCloud experience

Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite)

About the Role:

• We are seeking an experienced Senior Salesforce DevOps Engineer to join a large-scale,
• enterprise Salesforce delivery organization operating with 10+ POD/Scrum teams.
• This role is critical to modernizing, stabilizing, and scaling our Salesforce DevOps practices on Azure DevOps.
• The ideal candidate will bring deep Salesforce CI/CD expertise, strong problem-solving skills, and a passion for engineering excellence.
• They will be responsible for diagnosing and resolving significant existing challenges in our release pipeline and driving long-term improvements across the DevOps lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Repository & Org Synchronization

• Establish and enforce a reliable, automated source of truth between Salesforce orgs and the Azure DevOps Git repository
• Design and implement processes to ensure the Production org and Master branch are always in sync
• Eliminate code overwrite and rework caused by org/repo inconsistencies
• Architect org-from-repo deployment strategies to ensure environments are always created/refreshed from version-controlled source
• Pipeline Optimization & Performance
• Redesign and optimize CI/CD pipelines to significantly reduce overall execution time (current baseline: 20–30 minutes for single-component deployments)
• Implement shallow clones, artifact caching, and incremental checkout strategies to address large repository sizes (~4.5GB)
• Introduce dedicated build agents/runners to eliminate shared-agent contention
• Optimize dependency installation, SonarQube, and SNYK scan execution within pipelines
• Implement Git delta deployment strategies (branch-to-branch comparison) for efficient, component-level deployments
• Reduce Apex test class execution time (current baseline: ~6 hours) through parallel test execution, test selection optimization, and test impact analysis strategies
• Release Management & Multi-Train Support
• Design and manage DevOps processes supporting multiple release trains: Major Release (6- week), Short Sprint (2-week), Anytime/Micro, Hotfix, and Hypercare (1-week post-MR)
• Architect environment strategies to isolate different release streams — eliminating the risk of shared UAT environment conflicts across concurrent release tracks
• Establish clear environment promotion paths and minimize back-sync conflicts when syncing changes from Production
• Support increasing release frequency and volume with scalable, repeatable pipeline automation

Training & Knowledge Enablement

• Bridge knowledge gaps across development teams in CI/CD tooling, conflict resolution, and DevOps best practices
• Develop and deliver training sessions, workshops, and documentation for Salesforce developers across POD teams
• Build a DevOps community of practice to share knowledge and standardize practices across the 10+ scrum teams

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Salesforce DevOps engineering, platform engineering, or release engineering
• Deep hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts)
• Strong experience with Salesforce DX (SFDX), Salesforce CLI, and metadata API-based deployments
• Proficiency in Git version control, branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based), and merge conflict resolution
• Experience with delta deployment tools (e.g., SFDX Git Delta, Copado, Gearset, or equivalent)
• Experience in establishing, building and maintaining DevOps process & Governance in a large enterprise Salesforce org (1000+ end users) delivery with 5+ POD/Scrum teams
• Hands-on experience with SonarQube and SNYK (or equivalent SAST/SCA tools) integration in CI/CD pipelines
• Experience managing Salesforce sandbox environments, refreshes, and org strategy design
• Strong scripting skills: Bash, Python, or PowerShell for pipeline automation
• Demonstrated experience supporting multi-team, multi-release-train delivery models
• Familiarity with feature flags / dark deployment patterns in Salesforce
• Strong understanding of Salesforce metadata types, component relationships, and dependency management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Salesforce release management tools such as Copado, Gearset, AutoRABIT, or Flosum
• Familiarity with YAML-based pipeline authoring in Azure DevOps
• Experience with self-hosted Azure DevOps agents configuration and maintenance
• Knowledge of Apex test optimization, parallel test execution, and test impact analysis
• Salesforce certifications (e.g., Salesforce Administrator, Platform Developer I/II, DevOps Center)
• Experience with AI-assisted code review tools or GitHub Copilot integrations
• Familiarity with Salesforce Flow, OmniStudio, or industry cloud deployments

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