# Lead Software Engineer

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: Dallas, Texas
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a hands-on technical leader for the DET IT Finance Engineering team with experience building solutions for cloud ERP platforms such as Workday, Oracle Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, or comparable systems.

This role combines strong software engineering fundamentals with deep expertise in ERP technical development, enterprise integrations, or data engineering. Our environment includes Workday Financials, MuleSoft, cloud platforms, and financial data solutions. You will help shape their architecture, build reliable solutions, and apply AI and automation to improve engineering productivity and finance operations.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will drive the design and delivery of enterprise finance solutions that power Salesforce globally. You will work across ERP applications, APIs, integrations, and data platforms to solve complex business and engineering problems.

**Core Responsibilities & Scope**

- Define technical architecture across cloud ERP, integration, and data platforms, establishing standards for security, scalability, maintainability, and performance.

- Design, build, and operate integrations connecting Workday and other finance applications with Salesforce, revenue recognition, tax, banking, and enterprise data platforms.

- Develop solutions using your primary technical strengths,ERP development, MuleSoft/API engineering, or data engineering,and collaborate across the other disciplines.

- Build reliable APIs, event-driven integrations, data pipelines, and transformations with appropriate validation, reconciliation, error handling, and monitoring.

- Lead complex troubleshooting across application, integration, and data layers, addressing root causes and improving operational resilience.

- Modernize existing solutions using appropriate cloud services, automation, and reusable engineering components.

- Apply AI-assisted development and agentic tools to coding, testing, documentation, and support, with attention to accuracy, security, and measurable value.

- Own technical delivery from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.

- Mentor engineers through design and code reviews and partner with product, finance, architecture, security, and platform teams.

**Minimum Requirements**

- 10+ years of enterprise software engineering experience, including substantial hands-on technical delivery involving a cloud ERP platform such as Workday, Oracle Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud, NetSuite, or a comparable platform.

- Demonstrated technical depth in at least one of the following areas: ERP technical engineering, Integration engineering, or Data engineering.

- Strong hands-on programming skills in languages relevant to your specialization, such as Java, Python, SQL, or equivalent, with the ability to write, review, debug, and optimize production code.

- Proven experience leading architecture and solution design for complex enterprise systems.

- Strong understanding of APIs, REST/SOAP services, authentication, asynchronous processing, and integration design patterns.

- Experience designing for data integrity, reconciliation, auditability, security, and reliable recovery from failures.

- Practical experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD, and production monitoring.

- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across applications, integrations, and databases.

- A related technical degree required.

- Ability to translate finance requirements into technical solutions and explain design decisions to technical and business stakeholders.

- Willingness to develop expertise in Workday and the broader finance technology stack.

**Benefits**

- Time off programs

- Medical, dental, vision

- Mental health support

- Paid parental leave

- Life and disability insurance

- 401(k)

- Employee stock purchasing program

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## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- SQL
- Workday
- MuleSoft
- API development
- Data engineering
- Cloud platforms

### Nice to have
- AWS
- GCP
- Kafka
- Pub/Sub
- SQS
- Event-driven architectures
- AI developer tools
- LLMs
- Agentic automation

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