This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Salesforce Admin based in India.
We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Administrator to manage, optimize, and modernize a mature Salesforce environment spanning Sales Cloud and Service Cloud. In this hands-on role, you will oversee complex workflows, custom configurations, and critical integrations that support essential business operations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform business requirements into scalable, reliable, and efficient Salesforce solutions. A key focus will be modernizing legacy automation, maintaining seamless data flows, and strengthening platform security and performance. You will also have the opportunity to leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate troubleshooting, streamline administration, and improve system maintenance. This role is ideal for a technically strong professional who enjoys solving complex challenges and driving continuous platform improvement. The position is fully remote within India, with working hours aligned with the US time zone.
Accountabilities
- Salesforce Administration and Security: Serve as the primary administrator for Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, managing users, roles, profiles, permission sets, field-level security, sharing rules, and user lifecycle processes.
- Workflow Automation and Modernization: Design, build, and maintain sophisticated Salesforce Flows, including record-triggered, screen, scheduled, and HTTP callout flows. Review and consolidate legacy Workflow Rules and Process Builder automations into clean, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
- Service Cloud Management: Administer case management processes, including assignment rules, queue management, and automated offboarding cases associated with client cancellations.
- Integration Management: Maintain and troubleshoot integrations with NetSuite through Celigo/integrator.io, GoHighLevel, PDF Butler, Dialpad, Apollo, HubSpot, Outlook, and Microsoft Teams. Ensure reliable data synchronization across connected platforms.
- API and Webhook Troubleshooting: Configure and support custom API- and webhook-based integrations, investigate errors, analyze payload mismatches, and resolve data flow issues across systems.
- Deployment and Release Management: Manage deployments between sandbox and production environments using Salesforce CLI, Metadata API, and Change Sets. Troubleshoot deployment failures, test coverage issues, and related technical challenges.
- Reporting and Analytics: Build and maintain custom reports, report types, and dashboards to monitor sales pipelines, operational performance, and subscription-based business metrics, including monthly recurring revenue (MRR), annual recurring revenue (ARR), and churn.
- Data Quality and Governance: Maintain accurate and reliable Salesforce data through validation rules, deduplication, regular audits, lead-source completeness checks, and continuous process improvements.
- AI-Enabled Administration: Use AI-assisted tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and ChatGPT to accelerate Flow development, formula creation, metadata analysis, documentation, and troubleshooting.
- User Support and Enablement: Resolve end-user issues, provide training and documentation, and improve platform adoption across business functions.
- Continuous Improvement: Monitor Salesforce releases, evaluate new platform capabilities, and recommend improvements that strengthen system reliability, operational efficiency, and scalability.
Requirements
- Professional Experience: At least 8 years of dedicated, hands-on Salesforce Administration experience in complex, heavily automated environments.
- Required Certification: Salesforce Administrator certification is mandatory. Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, or Platform Developer I certification is strongly preferred.
- Salesforce Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of the Salesforce data model, security architecture, configuration capabilities, and Flow Builder, including complex subflows, fault paths, and HTTP callouts.
- Sales and Service Cloud: Demonstrated experience administering both Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, particularly case management, user access, automation, and business process configuration.
- Automation Architecture: Proven ability to design scalable automation architectures, consolidate legacy Process Builder workflows, and modernize existing automation without disrupting downstream processes.
- Integration Expertise: Experience managing third-party and custom integrations, REST APIs, webhooks, and middleware or integration platforms such as Celigo/integrator.io. Familiarity with NetSuite and marketing technology ecosystems is a significant advantage.
- Deployment and Troubleshooting: Experience with Salesforce CLI, Metadata API, Change Sets, deployment processes, test coverage, API error logs, and integration troubleshooting.
- Reporting and Data Management: Strong skills in custom report types, bucket fields, dashboards, data validation, deduplication, and data quality management. Familiarity with SaaS metrics such as MRR, ARR, and churn is preferred.
- AI-Assisted Workflows: Experience using AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar platforms to improve Salesforce administration, analyze metadata, generate formulas, create test cases, and accelerate troubleshooting.
- Education: A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred; equivalent practical experience may also be considered.
- Industry Experience: Experience in healthcare, marketing, agencies, or managed services environments is a strong advantage.
- Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to investigate complex technical issues independently, trace integration failures across multiple systems, and implement sustainable solutions.
- Communication and Collaboration: Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Continuous Learning: A proactive approach to platform modernization, emerging technologies, AI-assisted administration, and Salesforce best practices.
- Work Schedule: Availability to work from approximately 6:30 PM to 3:30 AM IST, with a flexibility of approximately one hour.
Benefits
- Remote Work: Fully remote opportunity for candidates based in India.
- Advanced Technology Exposure: Work with a sophisticated Salesforce environment, complex integrations, modern automation frameworks, and AI-assisted development tools.
- Technical Ownership: Take responsibility for platform administration, automation architecture, integration reliability, and system modernization.
- Professional Development: Opportunities to strengthen expertise in Salesforce architecture, AI-enabled workflows, API integrations, and enterprise platform optimization.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with different business teams to deliver scalable solutions that improve operational efficiency and data quality.
- Meaningful Impact: Help maintain and improve business-critical systems while introducing smarter, more efficient ways of working.
- Compensation and Additional Benefits: Salary, healthcare coverage, paid leave, bonuses, and other benefits were not specified in the original job description and can be discussed during the recruitment process.