
AVP, Salesforce Development Manager
Walker & Dunlop
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Co-own the Salesforce roadmap and quarterly OKRs with the VP, CRM Strategy & Solutions; translate strategy into delivery plans and manage cross-team dependencies.
- Lead execution across multiple initiatives and departments, ensuring predictable sprint delivery, scope control, and on-time outcomes for complex programs.
- Measure and improve platform health and delivery performance by defining/monitoring KPIs, identifying bottlenecks, reducing cycle time, and increasing release confidence.
- Proactively manage delivery and technical risk, escalating early and negotiating trade-offs while protecting quality, security, and long-term platform sustainability.
- Oversee architecture and solution design across declarative and programmatic development to ensure scalable, performant, maintainable solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement through standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures, code quality practices, and resiliency upgrades.
- Own CI/CD and release management maturity across multiple orgs, including branching strategy, automated validations/tests, approvals, and rollback planning.
- Establish and enforce platform governance and security controls (access policies, role hierarchy, sharing model, permission sets, data quality, and environment strategy).
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex platform and integration issues and evaluate/adopt technologies and practices that improve speed, quality, and security.
- Lead cross-functional planning and communication, removing blockers and clarifying ownership across teams; ensure PRDs/TDDs receive timely, actionable feedback through design reviews, Tech Talks, and postmortems.
- Partner with product owners and stakeholders to refine requirements, manage scope, and deliver value across concurrent initiatives.
- Lead, mentor, and develop Salesforce engineering teams (developers/admins) across Sales and Service Cloud orgs; set expectations, coach performance, enforce accountability, and build inclusive teams with strong hiring and succession plans.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant hands-on Salesforce development
- 5+ years leading Salesforce/CRM engineering teams (people leadership and/or leading multiple teams)
- Demonstrated experience operating Salesforce at scale, ideally including multi-org support, mature release/change management, and enterprise integrations (especially MuleSoft)
- Salesforce Developer II, Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder, Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II, Salesforce Certified MuleSoft Developer II are required
- Salesforce Certified Integration Architecture Designer, Salesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment Designer, Salesforce Certified System Architect are preferred
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented design, Salesforce architecture, and engineering best practices across Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Salesforce Privacy Center and ecosystem platforms including Box, Conga, and Odeseva
- Expertise in Apex (trigger frameworks, governor limits, bulkification) and Salesforce application architecture
- Strong Lightning experience (Lightning Web Components) and modern UI patterns
- Experience with integrations (REST/SOAP APIs), middleware patterns, and event-driven designs - leveraging tools such as MuleSoft
- Strong understanding of platform security and access governance (role hierarchy, sharing model, permission sets)
- Strong data management and modeling understanding (e.g., SQL, XML, JSON); experience with PostgreSQL
- Proven ability to deliver complex, cross-team initiatives with strong planning, dependency management, and execution discipline; experienced in Agile methodology including delivery tools such as Jira
- Ownership mindset and strong stakeholder partnership skills; demonstrates courtesy, respect, and thoughtfulness in collaboration across teams using tools like Slack and Zoom
- Deep familiarity with DevOps and delivery excellence, including source control and pipeline practices using GitLab, code quality and static analysis with SonarQube, and modern CI/CD and release management practices
- Backend application development experience using C# and the Microsoft .NET framework.
- Ability to show ownership of your work, take on challenges and acknowledge growth opportunities, and demonstrate patience when learning new processes.
- Courtesy, respect, and thoughtfulness in teaming with colleagues and other stakeholders.
Benefits
- Up to 83% subsidized medical payroll deductions
- Competitive dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) + match
- Pre-tax transit and commuting benefits
- A robust health and wellness program – earn cash rewards and gain access to resources that promote health, engagement, and balance
- Paid maternity and parental leave, as well as other family paid leave programs
- Company-paid life, short and long-term disability insurance
- Health Savings Account and Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending
- Career development opportunities
- Empowerment and encouragement to give back – volunteer hours and donation matching
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Salesforce developmentApexLightning Web ComponentsREST APIsSOAP APIsSQLXMLJSONPostgreSQLC#
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder partnershipplanningdependency managementexecution disciplineownership mindsetcollaborationmentoringcommunicationproblem-solving
Certifications
Salesforce Developer IISalesforce Certified Platform App BuilderSalesforce Certified Platform Developer IISalesforce Certified MuleSoft Developer IISalesforce Certified Integration Architecture DesignerSalesforce Certified Development Lifecycle and Deployment DesignerSalesforce Certified System Architect