SVP - Salesforce Technical Lead – IB Tech & CRM/Analytics

Job description

About IB Technology

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

As an SVP, Lead Salesforce Engineer, this role leads the Salesforce engineering practice, development team, and platform — multi-system integration patterns, large-scale data model design, and framework level decisions that shape how the entire team builds. Leads a team of engineers — accountable for their delivery, performance, and growth. Demands deep engineering expertise, high-impact decision-making, and the drive to push deliveries across the finish line.

Communicates with clarity and conviction across time zones.

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). #LI-JJ2