Location:
Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference:
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About Us
The Department of Government Services (DGS) wasestablishedon 1 January **** to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government.We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses.We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services.
About the role
As a Principal Salesforce Developer, you will provide technical leadership in the design, development, and optimisation of solutions across our Salesforce ecosystem.
Leveraging deep expertise in Salesforce architecture and development, you will guide teams in translating complex business needs into strategic, scalable technical solutions.
Your leadership will help shape best practices across customisation, integration, and automation, ensuring high-quality outcomes.
Additionally, you will drive continuous platform improvement, mentor team members, and stay at the forefront of Salesforce innovation and trends.
Key Accountabilities
Lead Design and Development of Salesforce Solutions
Work with Product, Architecture, and senior stakeholders to define strategic technical approaches
Design and develop complex, scalable solutions across multiple Salesforce instances
Champion best practice development and architectural standards
Lead the modernisation, support, and upgrade of key Salesforce systems
Quality Assurance and Governance
Oversee technical quality through code reviews, solution walkthroughs, and best practice adoption




Guide teams in implementing robust testing strategies in collaboration with Quality Engineers
Technical Leadership and Mentoring
Mentor and coach developers at all levels
Define and maintain technical standards, development guidelines, and architectural principles
Lead technical design sessions and oversee solution delivery
Strategic Collaboration
Act as a key technical liaison across product, business, and platform stakeholders, demonstrating robust business acumen to align technical solutions with organisational objectives
Collaborate with Enterprise and System Architects to ensure alignment with broader digital strategies
Documentation and Knowledge Management
Drive the creation of technical documentation and reusable assets
Ensure documentation supports future scalability and cross-team understanding
Production and Platform Oversight
Lead resolution of critical production issues
Drive platform stability, performance, and long-term scalability initiatives
Deployment and CI/CD (GitHub)
Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or other GitHub-integrated tools
Ensure code is automatically tested, reviewed, and deployed through structured workflows from development to production
Champion best practices in version control, branching strategy, and deployment automation
Extensive demonstrated expertise in Salesforce development across multiple instances,



including deep knowledge of Salesforce development best practice, Apex, LWC, OmniStudio, and Salesforce platform-level architecture
Strong experience integrating Salesforce with external systems using REST/SOAP APIs.
Solid experience across core Salesforce Clouds (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Public Cloud) and proven delivery skills in Experience Cloud
Advanced Salesforce certifications aligned to your areas of specialisation (e.g. Application Architect, System Architect, or equivalent)
Proven experience leading and optimising delivery across the SDLC in complex agile environments, including shaping technical strategy and standards
Other relevant information:
To be eligible for appointment to this role, applicants will possess corresponding work rights for the advertised employment period.
Appointment to an ongoing role is only available to an Australian/New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident.
Preferred candidates will be required to complete a Pre-employment Declaration and Consent Form.
Employment of successful candidates will be subject to a National Police Check.
The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees and clients and consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act **** (OH&S; Act), to support this DGS has a COVID-19 Vaccination policy which strongly recommends all DGS employees be fully vaccinated.
DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace.
All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.
Applications close Wednesday 7 October **** at *****pm
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📌 Principal Salesforce Developer (Melbourne)
🏢 State Government Of Victoria, Australia
📍 Melbourne