Vice President, Salesforce Engineering Lead (Wealth Management)

About this role

Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description Ares is seeking a Vice President, Salesforce Engineering Lead to drive delivery, platform excellence, and technical leadership for the Wealth Management Salesforce ecosystem, ensuring scalable, high-quality solutions that support business growth and operational efficiency. Reporting to the Vice President, Wealth Technology Lead, the successful candidate will serve as the engineering leader for the Wealth Management Salesforce platform, partnering closely with business and technology stakeholders and the Salesforce Architect to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions aligned with business priorities and architectural standards. This role is responsible for leading a geographically distributed Salesforce engineering team, driving engineering excellence, fostering continuous learning and innovation, and ensuring successful delivery of strategic platform initiatives. While maintaining strong Salesforce technical expertise and credibility, the primary focus of the role is engineering leadership, delivery execution, team development, and platform stewardship rather than day-to-day software development. The ideal candidate combines Salesforce platform expertise, strong people leadership skills, and a passion for developing high-performing engineering teams. They proactively stay abreast of Salesforce innovation, modern software delivery practices, and emerging AI-enabled development capabilities, helping the organization continuously improve how solutions are designed, delivered, and supported.

Reporting Relationships Reports To: Vice President, Wealth Technology Lead Direct Reports: • Salesforce Engineers • Salesforce Consultants and Contractors

Primary Functions & Responsibilities Engineering Leadership & People Management • Lead, mentor, and develop a geographically distributed Salesforce engineering team across North America and India. • Establish a high-performance engineering culture focused on accountability, quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement. • Conduct performance management, coaching, career development, and regular feedback discussions for direct reports. • Partner with leadership to recruit, interview, onboard, and develop Salesforce engineering talent. • Manage staffing capacity, resource allocation, and delivery commitments across concurrent initiatives and support activities. • Foster effective collaboration across time zones while ensuring consistent engineering standards and team engagement. • Serve as the primary escalation point for complex technical and production support issues impacting the Wealth Salesforce platform. • Create opportunities for team members to expand their technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and business domain knowledge.

Salesforce Delivery & Technical Oversight • Lead engineering delivery for Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Pardot, and associated platform capabilities supporting Wealth Management. • Partner with business and technology stakeholders to ensure solutions are delivered in alignment with business priorities, strategic objectives, and roadmap commitments. • Collaborate closely with the Salesforce Architect to ensure platform implementations align with enterprise architecture standards and long-term strategic direction. • Provide oversight of technical solutions, implementation approaches, code quality, and overall platform health. • Guide development teams through solution delivery and remove technical or operational roadblocks. • Review significant technical decisions and implementation plans to ensure scalability, maintainability, and operational supportability. • Support platform modernization initiatives and technical debt reduction efforts. • Ensure consistent adherence to established development standards, security requirements, and engineering best practices.

Agile Delivery & Execution • Lead engineering execution across Agile teams and delivery initiatives. • Ensure user stories are properly understood, estimated, and delivered according to sprint commitments. • Partner with business and technology stakeholders, architects, and delivery teams to manage priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines. • Monitor team performance, delivery metrics, and engineering effectiveness. • Drive transparency and accountability around project execution and release readiness. • Coordinate activities across development, testing, architecture, and business stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes. • Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, and predictable delivery.

Engineering Excellence & Operational Governance • Establish and maintain Salesforce development standards, coding practices, and engineering governance processes. • Champion adoption of modern engineering practices including source control, peer reviews, automated testing, and continuous integration principles. • Partner with the Salesforce Architect to support adoption of the firm's CI/CD framework and deployment processes. • Ensure production support issues are addressed through effective troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective action planning. • Promote operational maturity through documentation, knowledge sharing, support readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives. • Identify opportunities to improve platform stability, scalability, security, and maintainability. • Drive engineering discipline around release quality, testing standa

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