Lead Salesforce Developer – Experience Cloud / LWR – $65-70/hr W2 – Phoenix (Hybrid) at AZ State Agency
Phoenix, AZ
$65–$70/hrfrom the description
Aug 3, 2026
Phoenix, AZ
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A state agency in Arizona is hiring a hands-on lead Salesforce developer on a 6-month W2 contract to own the architecture of its Experience Cloud platform — the public-facing sites through which citizens interact with government services. The role spans template strategy, security and identity modeling, LWC development, high-volume Apex automation, third-party integrations, and CI/CD pipeline definition, with added responsibility for code-review standards and mentoring junior developers.
Senior level · 10+ years · Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ · Bachelor's required · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 50 people in the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 10–75
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $134,647 (middle half $106,522–$166,963). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 5, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title says 'Lead' but the role is an individual-contributor hands-on developer with lead authority over architecture and code standards — not a people-manager — so it is classified as Senior rather than Staff or Principal.
10+ years as a Salesforce Developer is the stated overall experience floor; the additional '5+ years as a Lead Salesforce Developer' is a role-level qualifier, not a separate technology-years figure.
Experience Cloud / LWR, Salesforce CLI/SFDX, and the two certifications (Experience Cloud Consultant, Platform Developer I) appear only under the Preferred section and are marked accordingly, despite the depth of the role's Experience Cloud work.
Security and identity capabilities (External Identity, Account Relationship Data Sharing, Apex Managed Sharing) are described as responsibilities in the duties narrative rather than under a formal Required heading; they are captured via the broader Apex and SSO skills rather than as separate line items, since the posting does not list them as standalone named tools.
ERP integration is mentioned as a responsibility but no specific ERP product is named, so no ERP skill is emitted.
The alt SOC 15-1299 is noted because a Salesforce-platform-specialist role sits at the edge of the standard Software Developers classification; however 15-1252 is the better fit given the hands-on coding and architecture scope.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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