What We Need
Corpay is currently looking to hire a Salesforce Technical Lead within our Corporate Payments division. This position falls under our Account Payables line of business. In this role, you will provide technical leadership for our Salesforce platform and development team. This role combines hands-on development with solution architecture, technical mentoring, and delivery leadership. The ideal candidate is passionate about building enterprise-scale Salesforce solutions, driving engineering excellence, and leveraging AI-enabled development practices to accelerate innovation while maintaining high quality standards.
The Salesforce Technical Lead / Solution Architect leads a Salesforce delivery pod responsible for designing and delivering business solutions across Corpay’s Salesforce platform. This role combines people leadership, solution design, delivery oversight, and close partnership with Product Owners, Technical Architects, Administrators, and Developers.
The Solution Architect translates business needs into clear, cohesive solution approaches; guides the pod through delivery; and ensures solutions are aligned with business outcomes, platform standards, security requirements, and long-term maintainability.
The ideal candidate is a strong Salesforce leader with solution-design experience and a preference for practical AI-assisted development practices that improve delivery speed, quality, documentation, and team effectiveness.
How We Work
As a Salesforce Technical Lead, you will be expected to work in a virtual environment.
Corpay will set you up for success by providing:
- Company-issued equipment
- Formal, hands-on training
Role Responsibilities
The responsibilities of the role will include:
Leadership
- Leading, coaching, and developing a Salesforce delivery pod, including direct people-management responsibilities.
- Setting clear expectations, providing regular feedback, supporting career development, and helping team members grow their Salesforce and delivery capabilities.
- Assigning work across the pod based on priorities, skills, capacity, and development opportunities.
- Fostering a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing team culture.
- Partnering with leadership on staffing, hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning.
- Removing delivery blockers and ensuring the pod has the information, decisions, and support needed to deliver effectively.
Solution Delivery
- Leading solution-design discussions translating business requirements into clear, scalable Salesforce solution approaches.
- Partnering with Product Owners and business stakeholders to understand objectives, define scope, identify dependencies, and validate proposed solutions.
- Guiding the pod in evaluating declarative configuration, Salesforce automation, custom development, integrations, and process changes as part of the overall solution.
- Ensuring proposed solutions are aligning with established Salesforce platform standards, security requirements, enterprise architecture guidance, and business priorities.
- Working with Technical Architects and senior developers to review detailed technical designs, identify risks, and confirm implementation plans are supporting desired business outcomes.
- Leading technical and functional decision-making for the pod, escalating cross-platform architecture decisions when appropriate.
- Balancing delivery timelines, business value, team capacity, technical debt, and long-term solution sustainability.
- Supporting estimation, sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and production-readiness activities.
- Ensuring the pod is delivering solutions meeting agreed functional, quality, security, and supportability expectations.
Hands-on Development
- Developing enterprise-grade Apex solutions using modern object-oriented programming principles.
- Building scalable Lightning Web Components (LWC) and advanced Salesforce Flows.
- Designing asynchronous solutions using Queueable Apex, Platform Events, Change Data Capture, and Batch Apex where appropriate.
- Developing and maintaining REST APIs and enterprise integrations.
- Optimizing applications for Salesforce governor limits, platform performance, and maintainability.
- Participating in complex development efforts and proof-of-concept initiatives.
Team Leadership
- Mentoring and coaching Salesforce engineers through technical guidance, pair programming, and code reviews.
- Contributing to coding standards, documentation practices, and testing expectations.
- Fostering a collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous improvement.
- Helping onboard new team members and supporting career development.
- Promoting knowledge sharing across development, administration, and architecture teams.
AI-First Engineering
- Championing AI-assisted software development across the Salesforce engineering team.
- Establishing standards for AI prompting, grounding documentation, and reusable development workflows.
- Leveraging AI tools to improve developer productivity while ensuring quality, security, and maintainability.
- Encouraging critical evaluation and validation of AI-generated code rather than blind adoption.
- Developing and maintaining Markdown-based project documentation to improve AI context and team knowledge.
Qualifications & Skills
Salesforce Platform Expertise
- 5+ years of Salesforce development experience with progressively increasing leadership responsibilities.
- 2+ years leading Salesforce technical teams or major enterprise implementations.
- Expert-level Apex development experience, including:
- Enterprise design patterns
- Interfaces and abstract classes
- Queueable Apex with Finalizers
- Platform Events
- Change Data Capture
- Custom REST APIs
- Enterprise integration patterns
- Advanced experience building Lightning Web Components (LWC).
- Extensive experience designing complex Salesforce Flow solutions.
- Deep understanding of Salesforce governor limits, execution context, sharing model, and platform architecture.
- Experience designing secure, scalable, enterprise Salesforce applications.
Software Engineering
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
- Expertise with enterprise software design patterns including Factory, Observer, Proxy, Facade, Strategy, and Dependency Injection.
- Experience implementing automated testing strategies and improving code quality.
- Experience with Git, Salesforce DX, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.
- Strong understanding of API design and enterprise integration architecture.
Leadership
- Demonstrated ability to lead solution design discussions and influence architectural decisions.
- Experience mentoring developers and conducting technical code reviews.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities while delivering high-quality solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Salesforce Platform Developer II certification.
- Salesforce Certified Administrator.
- Salesforce AI Associate certification.
- Experience with Agentforce development and architecture.
- Experience with Prompt Builder.
- Experience with Salesforce Data Cloud and Customer 360.
- Financial services, payments, or enterprise SaaS experience.
Professional Competencies
Successful candidates will demonstrate:
- Strategic and solution-oriented thinking.
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication abilities.
- Confidence to challenge assumptions and recommend better solution approaches.
- Excellent organizational and prioritization skills.
- High standards for engineering quality and technical excellence.
- Passion for mentoring others and building high-performing teams.
- Commitment to continuous learning and adopting emerging Salesforce and AI technologies.
Benefits & Perks
- Comprehensive Benefits Package including, Medical, Dental, Vision and Paramedical benefits, as of day one
- Optional company match RRSP program
- Virtual fitness classes offered company-wide
- Time-off including major holidays, vacation, sick, personal, & volunteer time
- Discounted gym membership rate
- Philanthropic support with both local and national organizations
- Fun culture with company-wide contests and prizes
Pay Transparency
The expected salary range for this position is $135,400 – $175,000, based on the candidate’s work location. This range reflects a good faith estimate of the expected compensation for this role at the time of posting. The final offer will be determined based on job-related factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and applicable market conditions. Compensation may vary based on geographic location and will be confirmed during the hiring process. Additional compensation and benefits, including incentive programs, health coverage, retirement plans, paid time off, and other benefits (where applicable), may also be provided.
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About Corpay
Corpay is a global technology organization that is leading the future of commercial payments with a culture of innovation that drives us to constantly create new and better ways to pay. Our specialized payment solutions help businesses control, simplify, and secure payment for fuel, general payables, toll and lodging expenses. Millions of people in over 80 countries around the world use our solutions for their payments.
At Corpay, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace where employees are valued for their diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions. We believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion strengthen our teams, drive innovation, and support our continued success globally.
As part of our hiring process, offers of employment may be subject to the successful completion of pre-employment screening conducted by an authorized third-party provider, in accordance with applicable laws and Corpay policies. Screening requirements may include employment references, identity verification, criminal record checks, financial or sanctions screening, and other background checks relevant to the role and permitted by local law.
Notice to Recruitment Agencies and Search Firms: Corpay does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firms without a valid written agreement in place. Any unsolicited candidate submissions will become the property of Corpay, and no fees will be paid related to such submissions.
Learn more about Corpay: https://www.corpay.com
Transparency & Compliance
Equal Opportunity Employer
Corpay is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Corpay is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where individuals are respected and valued for their diverse perspectives, experiences, and contributions. If you require reasonable accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hiring
Corpay may use artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology-enabled tools to support certain aspects of the recruitment process, such as application screening, candidate assessment, or interview scheduling. These tools are designed to enhance efficiency, consistency, and fairness throughout the hiring process. AI tools do not make final hiring decisions. All employment decisions involve human review. Corpay is committed to the responsible use of AI, including appropriate oversight and safeguards designed to support fair and unbiased outcomes.
Candidate Privacy Notice
For information about how Corpay processes personal information during the recruitment process, please review our Candidate Privacy Notice: https://www.corpay.com/privacy-policy.
Pay Philosophy
Corpay is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices. Compensation decisions are based on objective, job-related factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and market benchmarks. Where required by applicable law, salary or compensation ranges will be included in the job posting or provided prior to the interview process, where required by applicable law. Additional compensation elements such as bonuses, incentives, benefits, or variable pay may apply where applicable.