Senior Salesforce Manager - 3 Months Contract - Octopus by RTG

• We are looking for a Senior Salesforce Manager to join the team on a 3-month remote contract
• The role will be responsible for overseeing Salesforce initiatives, managing technical and functional teams, driving platform optimization, and ensuring Salesforce solutions are aligned with business objectives.
• The ideal candidate will have strong experience managing Salesforce environments and teams, with a solid understanding of Salesforce architecture, delivery, integrations, governance, and stakeholder management. The candidate should be comfortable operating at both a strategic and hands-on level.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee Salesforce projects, enhancements, and transformation initiatives from planning through delivery.
• Manage and coordinate Salesforce developers, administrators, consultants, architects, and external partners.
• Define and maintain the Salesforce roadmap in alignment with business priorities.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable Salesforce solutions.
• Oversee Salesforce architecture, configuration, customization, integrations, and platform performance.
• Establish and maintain Salesforce governance, development standards, security practices, and best practices.
• Review technical solutions and ensure alignment with Salesforce platform capabilities and enterprise architecture.
• Manage delivery timelines, priorities, dependencies, risks, and resources.
• Ensure successful implementation of Salesforce releases and enhancements.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, QA, and other technology teams.
• Support UAT, release management, and production deployment activities.
• Monitor platform performance, adoption, data quality, and overall Salesforce health.
• Identify opportunities for automation, optimization, and process improvement.
• Manage relationships with Salesforce implementation partners and third-party vendors where applicable.
• Provide regular updates to senior stakeholders on project progress, risks, and key decisions.
• Ensure Salesforce solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with business needs.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience working with Salesforce.
• 3+ years in a senior/lead/managerial Salesforce position.
• Strong experience managing Salesforce teams and/or Salesforce delivery functions.
• Proven experience leading Salesforce implementations, transformation projects, or major platform enhancements.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce Sales Cloud and/or Service Cloud
• Strong understanding of Salesforce architecture, configuration, customization, integrations, and data models.

Experience with Salesforce development concepts including

• Apex, Lightning, APIs, and integration technologies
• Strong understanding of Salesforce security, roles, profiles, permission sets, sharing rules, and governance.
• Experience managing Agile delivery teams and working with Product Owners and Business Analysts.
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management experience.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment.
• Strong English communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce Certified
• Application Architect, System Architect, Technical Architect, or equivalent
• Salesforce Administrator / Platform Developer / Sales Cloud / Service Cloud certifications.
• Experience with Salesforce integrations, MuleSoft, APIs, and middleware platforms
• Experience with CI/CD and Salesforce DevOps tools.
• Experience managing large-scale Salesforce transformation programs.
• Experience working with offshore/remote Salesforce teams.