What are the responsibilities and job description for the Salesforce Technical Lead position at Cognizant?
Location: Plano, Texas (Hybrid)
About The Role
As a Salesforce Lead, you will make an impact by leading the design, development, and architecture of secure, scalable, and business‑critical solutions on Salesforce CRM.
In This Role, You Will
Based on this role’s business requirements, this is an onsite Hybrid position requiring presence in a client or Cognizant office in Plano, Texas.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting and may change based on business or client needs.
What You Need To Have To Be Considered
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About The Role
As a Salesforce Lead, you will make an impact by leading the design, development, and architecture of secure, scalable, and business‑critical solutions on Salesforce CRM.
In This Role, You Will
- Lead, design, and implement secure, scalable Salesforce solutions for complex enterprise environments.
- Lead requirement‑gathering sessions with architects, technical managers, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical designs.
- Provide technical leadership across Salesforce and integrated platforms including MuleSoft, DocuSign CLM, and various enterprise APIs.
- Guide development teams in Apex, Lightning, OmniStudio, Flows, Security, Sales Cloud, and API‑led integrations.
- Develop high‑level solution designs, prototypes, and proof‑of‑concepts to demonstrate architectural approaches.
Based on this role’s business requirements, this is an onsite Hybrid position requiring presence in a client or Cognizant office in Plano, Texas.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting and may change based on business or client needs.
What You Need To Have To Be Considered
- 8 years of strong Salesforce (SFDC) hands‑on development experience, including design, architecture, and delivery of enterprise‑scale solutions.
- Extensive experience across the Salesforce tech stack: Apex, Lightning Components, OmniStudio, Flows, Security, Sales Cloud, API development.
- Strong background in enterprise API integration, event‑driven architecture, and Salesforce Connector.
- Hands‑on experience integrating Salesforce with on‑premise and cloud applications via standard and custom REST APIs.
- Experience with MuleSoft, DocuSign CLM, and other enterprise platforms.
- Proficiency with GitHub, Copado, and other source control/release management tools.
- Strong understanding of Agile methods, particularly SCRUM.
- Excellent planning, communication, organization, and time‑management skills.
- Demonstrated exposure across diverse enterprise technology stacks.
- Experience driving architecture decisions in complex, multi‑system environments.
- Ability to produce prototypes and solution demonstrations quickly.
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