Freelance Developer Operations Engineer Jobs in Gallatin, TN

Position: Senior Salesforce Platform Developer II
Client: State of Tennessee
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: August 31, 2026 – December 31, 2026
Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM CST
Hours: 7.5 hours per day
Openings: 1
Expenses: Not reimbursable
Application Deadline: August 16, 2026

The State of Tennessee is looking for a senior-level Salesforce developer who can provide both hands-on development expertise and technical leadership across a complex enterprise Salesforce environment.

The organization currently operates 11 Salesforce orgs supporting a combination of:

• Public Sector Solutions
• Experience Cloud
• Service Cloud
• Sales Cloud

This position will work across multiple Salesforce development teams and will serve as a senior technical resource responsible for solution design, development standards, code reviews, troubleshooting, technical guidance, and evaluation of vendor-developed solutions.

• Develop and review Apex classes, Apex triggers, Lightning Web Components (LWC), SOQL/SOSL, Salesforce APIs, and integrations.
• Design secure, scalable, high-performing, and maintainable Salesforce solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and oversight to Salesforce development teams.
• Review complex Salesforce custom development and technical designs.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to Salesforce development best practices.
• Evaluate vendor-developed Salesforce solutions for quality, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot complex Salesforce application, integration, and performance issues.
• Identify technical debt, governor-limit concerns, scalability risks, and security issues.
• Provide technical recommendations and establish reusable Salesforce development patterns.
• Mentor and advise Salesforce developers.
• Participate in release planning, testing, deployment, and environment management.
• Support Salesforce CI/CD, source control, DevOps, and release-management activities.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, business stakeholders, platform owners, and vendors.

• Minimum 5 years of professional Salesforce development experience.
• Expert-level hands-on experience with Apex.
• Strong hands-on development experience with Lightning Web Components (LWC).
• Advanced experience with SOQL and SOSL.
• Strong experience developing Salesforce integrations.
• Hands-on experience with Salesforce APIs.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce platform architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce security and sharing models.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce governor limits and bulkification.
• Experience designing scalable and maintainable Salesforce solutions.
• Experience troubleshooting complex Salesforce custom development.
• Experience providing technical guidance to developers or development teams.
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Salesforce Platform Developer II (PDII) certification is required or must be obtained within the established timeframe.

Candidates who already hold an active Salesforce Platform Developer II certification are strongly preferred.

• Salesforce Public Sector Solutions (PSS)
• Experience Cloud
• Service Cloud
• Sales Cloud
• Multi-org Salesforce environments
• Large-scale enterprise Salesforce implementations
• Public-sector Salesforce projects
• Technical leadership across Salesforce development teams
• Code and technical design reviews
• Third-party/vendor development review
• Salesforce CI/CD and DevOps
• Source/version control
• Agile development
• Enterprise release planning and deployment governance

The selected candidate should have strong experience with:

Salesforce Development

• Apex Classes
• Apex Triggers
• Lightning Web Components
• SOQL
• SOSL
• Asynchronous Apex
• Salesforce APIs
• REST/SOAP integrations
• Integration patterns
• Error handling
• Performance optimization
• Bulkification

Architecture & Security

• Salesforce platform architecture
• Governor limits
• Sharing and access models
• Salesforce security
• Scalable application design
• Reusable development patterns
• Development standards

DevOps & Release Management

• CI/CD
• Source/version control
• Salesforce deployment
• Release management
• Code reviews
• Testing coordination
• Environment management
• Salesforce DevOps