Modernization Engineering Project Lead - Port of San Francisco (9976)

City and County of San Francisco•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

The Port of San Francisco is embarking on a multi-year project to replace the organization’s legacy enterprise business applications with a modern, unified platform built on Salesforce. This project will lead the replacement and migration of Port Enterprise technologies that have reached end-of-life with modern systems that support and promote the department's business capabilities. The project is focused on building and implementing data-rich, constituent-and user-focused, integrated systems. The successful candidate for this role will set technical direction, write software and make crucial decisions about software architecture as well as providing general technical leadership, mentoring and general supervision to the team. Under direction, the Modernization Engineering Project Lead: Plans, organizes, performs, delivers, directs and/or controls highly complex technology-related work products requiring industry or product expertise in broad areas of information technology. Collaborates closely with the Technology Project Manager, Senior User Research Analyst, business stakeholders, and technical teams to design and deliver modern solutions. Provides technical leadership across Salesforce, Kahua, Snowflake, and related technologies while helping balance technical, business, and end-user needs, and guides a small team of technical professionals supporting the modernization effort. Supervises, managing the work of four technical positions, and will be responsible for building a highly performing team inclusive of their direct reports, partners within Port Technology, alongside stakeholders and end users. Be the technical lead on modernization work, leaning on the team’s Senior User Research Analyst to balance technical, business, and end-user needs into a balanced data-first, user-centric ecosystem that elevates the work of the Port.

Requirements

Possession of an associate degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or closely related field from an accredited college or university OR its equivalent in terms of total course credits/units [i.e., at least sixty (60) semester or ninety (90) quarter credits/units with a minimum of twenty (20) semester or thirty (30) quarter credits/units in computer science or a closely related field.
Five (5) years of recent and verifiable experience developing or administering software or SaaS technologies, including one (1) year of supervisory experience supervising technical professionals.

Nice To Haves

Advanced experience with Salesforce development (Apex, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce).
Strong understanding of Salesforce configuration and administration.
Proficiency with modern software engineering practices: secure frameworks, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines.
Ability to design scalable Salesforce architectures and data models.
Understanding of data governance, data quality, and cleansing practices.
Ability to develop integration strategies that avoid API limits and ensure efficient data synchronization.
Experience leading developers, mentoring junior engineers, and guiding cross‑functional teams (mirroring expectations for senior engineering roles in modernization projects).
Strong documentation, code review, and quality assurance discipline.
Experience working with user researchers to guide feature development.

Responsibilities

Plans, organizes, performs, delivers, directs and/or controls highly complex technology-related work products requiring industry or product expertise in broad areas of information technology.
Collaborates closely with the Technology Project Manager, Senior User Research Analyst, business stakeholders, and technical teams to design and deliver modern solutions.
Provides technical leadership across Salesforce, Kahua, Snowflake, and related technologies while helping balance technical, business, and end-user needs, and guides a small team of technical professionals supporting the modernization effort.
Supervises, managing the work of four technical positions, and will be responsible for building a highly performing team inclusive of their direct reports, partners within Port Technology, alongside stakeholders and end users.
Be the technical lead on modernization work, leaning on the team’s Senior User Research Analyst to balance technical, business, and end-user needs into a balanced data-first, user-centric ecosystem that elevates the work of the Port.