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Lead Salesforce Administrator & Developer
About the Role
The ideal candidate possesses in-depth Salesforce knowledge across administration and development, covering configuration, access, and automation as well as Apex, LWC, and integrations. Own production issue debugging and technical debt remediation to ensure code quality, performance, and long-term maintainability. This is a working lead role, not a people-management role.
How you'll spend your time: ~30% hands-on development · ~60% administration, configuration and platform operations · ~10% technical leadership, design and review.
Responsibilities:
Development (Apex, LWC, Integrations)
- Modify and extend existing Apex classes, triggers, and asynchronous jobs.
- Build and maintain Lightning Web Components; maintain Aura and Visualforce where legacy demands it.
- Build and support REST/SOAP integrations between Salesforce and connected systems.
Administration, Configuration & Platform Customization
- Own day-to-day declarative configuration, including custom objects, fields, record types, page layouts, validation rules, approval processes and sharing rules.
- Configure and maintain Sales, Service, Experience and (where applicable) CPQ Cloud functionality.
Process Automation
- Build and maintain automation in Flow.
- Migrate legacy Workflow Rules and Process Builder automation to Flow.
User Access, Security & Compliance
- Manage the user lifecycle, including roles, profiles, permission sets and permission set groups.
- Support SSO/SAML and MFA configuration in partnership with IT/Identity, and investigate login failures.
- Run Health Check, Security Center and Optimizer reviews, and support internal audit and compliance requests.
Data Stewardship
- Maintain data quality through validation rules, duplicate/matching rules and periodic audits.
- Execute data loads, mass updates and data remediation.
- Manage sandbox refresh and seeding.
- Build and maintain reports, dashboards and report types for Sales, Marketing, Operations and Customer Success.
Release Management, CI/CD & Maintenance
- Own weekly release execution in Git/Bitbucket and CI/CD tooling, including manual pre- and post-deployment steps.
- Manage Salesforce seasonal releases and communicate impact to stakeholders.
Technical Debt & Platform Health
- Identify, size and remediate technical debt across configuration, code, automation and access.
- Maintain a prioritized debt register and deliver remediation alongside regular work.
Support, Triage & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Triage and resolve production issues, integration failures and data discrepancies.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Customer Success and adjacent system owners (ERP, procurement, marketing automation) to shape requirements and resolve production issues.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Salesforce Administrator and Platform Developer I (PD1) certifications.
- 7-12 years in Salesforce administration and development, including at least 3 years operating as a senior or lead engineer on a team.
- Experience across Sales, Service, Marketing, Experience and/or CPQ Clouds
- Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Preferred Qualifications
- Platform Developer II (PD2), Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, or Application/System Architect certifications.
- Experience in a large, long-lived org carrying legacy debt, and in remediating it without disrupting the business.
- Exposure to ERP or procurement integrations (NetSuite, Coupa or similar) and to identity platforms (Okta or similar).
How You Work
- Clear written and verbal communication; able to explain a technical trade-off to a non-technical stakeholder and a business constraint to an engineer.
- Strong analytical mindset with a structured approach to problem-solving.
- Sound judgment on when to say no, or not yet, and why.
Compensation & Benefits
The salary range for this position is $155,000 - $175,000 per year. Final compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to skills, relevant experience, and work location. Please note this range reflects base salary and does not include incentive compensation or potential equity grants. We also offer a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package.
Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- Salesforce Administrator certification.
- Platform Developer I (PD1) certification.
- 7-12 years in Salesforce administration and development.
- At least 3 years operating as a senior or lead engineer on a team.
- Experience with Apex, Lightning Web Components (LWC), Aura, and Visualforce.
- Experience building and supporting REST/SOAP integrations between Salesforce and connected systems.
- Experience building and migrating automation using Flow, Workflow Rules, and Process Builder.
- Experience across Sales, Service, Marketing, Experience and/or CPQ Clouds.
- Experience managing user access, roles, profiles, permission sets, SSO/SAML and MFA configuration.
- Data stewardship experience: validation rules, duplicate/matching rules, data loads, sandbox management, reports and dashboards.
- Experience with Git/Bitbucket and CI/CD tooling and weekly release execution.
- Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
- Platform Developer II, Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, or Application/System Architect certifications.
- Experience remediating technical debt in a large, long-lived org.
- Exposure to ERP or procurement integrations (NetSuite, Coupa) and identity platforms (Okta).
Qualys Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Affordable Benefits — Benefits costs are widely viewed as low for employees and dependents, with healthcare often described as almost fully paid for. Feedback suggests this affordability helps offset perceptions of lower base pay in some roles.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is accessible through company stock plans and an employee stock purchase plan. Compensation packages commonly include equity alongside salary and bonus, which some consider a meaningful part of total rewards.
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What We Do
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com
