Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aflac, a Fortune 500 company recognized for its commitment to diversity and ethics, is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer (Lead Salesforce Admin). This role involves designing scalable solutions, leading platform strategies, and ensuring compliance with organizational requirements while collaborating with senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align platform strategies with business objectives
- Define best practices & standards, guide team to ensure adherence to standards
- Provides support on architectural design and maintenance of the platform’s (COTS, SaaS, ERP) environment with distributed components
- Ensures compliance with the organization's requirements through the implementation of, auditing of, and adherence to policies, procedures, and security standards
- Plans software upgrades, patching, & plugin installations in accordance with established policies and procedures
- Monitors performance, resolves problems, & manages component capacity issues
- Design, test, develop, configure, & maintain integrations to platform’s applications
- Adhere to the platform’s security and coding standards for resilience, data, and security
- Review business requirements to deploy the best solution, including configuring, coding, & debugging
- Work closely with cross-functional departments to communicate statuses & technical proposal
- Deploy and configure platform applications tailored to company needs
- Design technical solutions, configure/customize, test, maintain the platform applications to meet company requirements
- Performs other duties as required
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field
- 6+ years of experience in release practices and environments or other related experience
- Design of scalable declarative solutions using Flows, validation rules, assignment rules, and approval processes without custom code
- Architectural Design for Platform Deployment
- Strategy for Platform Scalability and Growth
- Deep Expertise in the Salesforce ecosystem, including Platform Limitations and Workarounds
- Best Practices and Governance for Platform Configuration
- Leadership in Platform Upgrade and Migration Strategies
- Lead medium projects
- Salesforce Administrator Certification
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Prescription drug coverage
- Health care flexible spending
- Dependent care flexible spending
- Aflac supplemental policies (Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity offered at no costs to employee)
- 401(k) plans
- Annual bonuses
- An opportunity to purchase company stock
- 11 paid holidays
- Up to 20 days PTO to be used for any reason
- If eligible, state-mandated sick leave (Washington employees accrue 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked)
- Other leaves of absence, if eligible, when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being
- Aflac complies with all applicable leave laws, including, but not limited to, sick and safe leave, and adoption and parental leave, in all states and localities
Company Overview
Aflac is a company that offers individuals and companies supplemental disability insurance. It was founded in 1955, and is headquartered in Columbus, Georgia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.aflac.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Aflac has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 8 in 2025, 2 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 7 in 2022, 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.