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Paychex is reimagining how businesses manage their workforce by bringing payroll, HR, benefits, and advisory services together into a single connected HCM platform. As Paychex and Paycor come together, we're combining innovative technology, data-driven insights, AI, and human expertise to help organizations work smarter, support their people, and achieve better business outcomes. This is an exciting time to join our team as we continue to invest in innovation, simplify client experiences, and shape the future of work.
At Paychex, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, make a meaningful impact, and be part of something bigger as One Paychex. Overview We are seeking a Salesforce Software Engineer IV to serve as a technical leader for our Salesforce Sales Cloud platform and broader sales technology ecosystem. This individual will lead solution design, guide the delivery of complex Salesforce initiatives, and provide technical leadership to teams supporting lead management, opportunity management, forecasting, pipeline visibility, seller productivity, and emerging AI-enabled experiences.
The ideal candidate combines deep Salesforce Sales Cloud expertise with experience leading enterprise-scale implementations, driving engineering best practices, mentoring developers, and partnering with product, business, architecture, and delivery stakeholders. This role will influence platform direction, oversee technical execution, support integration and data design decisions, and identify opportunities to use Salesforce AI capabilities, including Agentforce and Einstein, to improve business outcomes and user experience.
Success requires strong leadership, exceptional communication, and the ability to drive alignment across technical and business teams. Responsibilities Develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software to meet requirements Design and develop test automation code Complete highly complex program changes; self-directed Perform comprehensive analysis and design for large-scale, project initiatives Serve as a technical leader; make significant technical contributions, provide technical direction, and evaluate new technologies for adoption Act as a focal point to communicate project design and status to senior management Provide project-level estimates and lead team through story level estimation efforts Ensure team compliance with SDLC standards and CD/CI procedures; introduce new standards and opportunities for improvements Monitor team progress against project estimates to provide status Provide technical support and troubleshooting for applications across environments, including high impact production issues Maintain existing code base, monitoring for failures in non-prod environments Support changes during quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and post implementation to ensure integrity of application Share technical expertise; guide and mentor others to maximize team effectiveness and quality Support multi-team and cross-program project efforts, serve as technical lead where necessary Initiate and facilitate partnership between multiple software engineering and delivery teams Observes and communicates performance of team members to assist in their development.
Subject Matter Expert across multiple technologies and Paychex applications Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer related discipline or equivalent work experience Demonstrated project leadership experience. Experience using one or more programming language(s). 5 years of experience in Related field. Salesforce Sales Cloud Solution design and technical leadership Apex development Lightning Web Components (LWC) Salesforce Flow and platform automation Salesforce data model and security architecture REST and SOAP API integrations AI-enabled Salesforce solutions, including Agentforce, Einstein AI, Prompt Builder, or related technologies CI/CD and DevOps practices Agile delivery methodologies Technical leadership and mentoring Stakeholder management