Lead Software Engineer, ES & Finance Platform

Salesforce•Chicago, IL

9d•$172,500 - $285,800•Onsite

About The Position

Join Salesforce's brand-new IT Employee Success and Finance Platform and Innovations team — a greenfield engineering org built from the ground up since early 2026 to define the data foundation powering HR and Finance at global scale. Based in San Francisco, CA; Indianapolis, IN; Denver, CO; New York, NY; or Atlanta, GA, you will serve as the technical authority for our Workday integration ecosystem, architecting the pipelines that make employee and financial data available, accurate, and ready for agentic use cases across Salesforce.

Requirements

10 or more years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in a technical lead or staff capacity, with a strong track record of building SaaS-to-SaaS integrations and custom middleware/APIs bridging legacy and modern enterprise systems.
Deep experience handling high-stakes financial or HR data — you understand that a 1% data mismatch in Finance or HR is a 100% failure, and you architect accordingly with SOX compliance and auditability at the center.
Think in platforms, not features — your work emphasizes reusability, documentation, and consistent engineering patterns that downstream consumers can trust.
Skilled communicator who can partner with non-technical business stakeholders, influence engineering direction without direct authority, and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
A related technical degree required.

Nice To Haves

Direct hands-on experience with Workday (Extend, Orchestration, Integration Studio, or similar tools).
Worked in a FinTech or highly regulated industry where audit trails and compliance are non-negotiable.
Familiar with the Salesforce ecosystem — including MuleSoft, Data Cloud, or Slack — and understand how to connect Workday data into these platforms.
Experience standing up new platform teams or programs from scratch, including defining standards and onboarding engineering contributors.

Responsibilities

Architect and govern the integration landscape between Workday and Salesforce's broader enterprise ecosystem — designing scalable, secure, high-throughput pipelines that treat PII and SOX-regulated data with zero tolerance for error.
Translate complex HR and Finance business strategies into reusable, well-documented integration platforms that make the entire engineering organization more efficient and capable of supporting agentic workloads.
Partner with HR and Finance business stakeholders to define data integrity standards, validate integration accuracy, and drive adoption of engineering excellence practices including modern CI/CD for SaaS and robust testing automation.
Mentor lead and staff engineers, lead architectural review processes, and establish guardrails that raise the technical bar across the team as the platform scales.