Modernization Engineering Project Lead - Port of San Francisco (9976)

Appointment Type:  Temporary Exempt (TEX). This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process, is considered "at will" and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer. Specific information regarding this recruitment process is listed below: Application Opening : June 17, 2026 Application Deadline : July 6, 2026 Compensation Range:  $171,158 - $215,306 annually  Required Supplemental Questionnaire:  https://forms.cloud.microsoft/g/zckeAQSfHk Recruitment ID : RTF0163977-01159178 The Port of San Francisco is an enterprise agency of the City and County of San Francisco and is governed by a Commission of five members appointed by the Mayor. The Port Commission is responsible for overseeing a broad range of waterfront commercial, maritime, and public access facilities that are held in public trust for the people of California. The Port’s jurisdiction covers approximately 7.5 miles of waterfront land from Pier 98, near Hunter’s Point in the southern part of San Francisco, to Fisherman’s Wharf in the northern part of the City. The Port’s diverse business portfolio includes over 550 ground, commercial, retail, office, industrial and maritime industrial leases including cargo shipping, layberthing, excursion boats, ferry boats, fishing and fish processing/distribution, tourism, filming, harbor services, and cruise operations. With some of the most flexible cargo handling facilities on the West Coast, as well as naturally deep water, the Port can handle various types of cargo such as, dry-bulk, neo-bulk, roll-on/roll-off, and project cargoes. The Port of San Francisco has many internationally recognized landmarks such as Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier 39, the Exploratorium, the Ferry Building and Oracle Park, home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team. With its unique and historic properties, the Port is home to a variety of tenants and uses. The Port Commission over the last five decades has led a remarkable transformation of the Port; maintaining its industrial maritime heritage while developing new uses, including commercial and public activities, that have helped San Francisco remain one of the most visited and popular cities on the globe. For more information about the Port of San Francisco, visit SFPort.com . Follow us on Twitter and Facebook .    The Port of San Francisco is embarking on a multi-year project to replace the organization’s legacy enterprise business applications with a modern, unified platform built on Salesforce. This project will lead the replacement and migration of Port Enterprise technologies that have reached end-of-life with modern systems that support and promote the department's business capabilities. The project is focused on building and implementing data-rich, constituent-and user-focused, integrated systems. The successful candidate for this role will set technical direction, write software and make crucial decisions about software architecture as well as providing general technical leadership, mentoring and general supervision to the team.  Under direction, the Modernization Engineering Project Lead:   Plans, organizes, performs, delivers, directs and/or controls highly complex technology-related work products requiring industry or product expertise in broad areas of information technology.   Collaborates closely with the Technology Project Manager, Senior User Research Analyst, business stakeholders, and technical teams to design and deliver modern solutions.  Provides technical leadership across Salesforce, Kahua, Snowflake, and related technologies while helping balance technical, business, and end-user needs, and guides a small team of technical professionals supporting the modernization effort.   Supervises, managing the work of four technical positions, and will be responsible for building a highly performing team inclusive of their direct reports, partners within Port Technology, alongside stakeholders and end users.  Be the technical lead on modernization work, leaning on the team’s Senior User Research Analyst to balance technical, business, and end-user needs into a balanced data-first, user-centric ecosystem that elevates the work of the Port.  Possession of an associate degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or closely related field from an accredited college or university  OR  its equivalent in terms of total course credits/units [i.e., at least sixty (60) semester or ninety (90) quarter credits/units with a minimum of twenty (20) semester or thirty (30) quarter credits/units in computer science or a closely related field. AND Five (5) years of recent and verifiable experience developing or administering software or SaaS technologies, including one (1) year of supervisory experience supervising technical professionals.    Desirable Qualifications (Ideal Candidate) The stated desirable qualifications may be considered at the end of the selection process when candidates are referred for hiring.  The  Ideal Candidate  Will Have: Advanced experience with Salesforce development (Apex, Lightning Web Components, Visualforce).  Strong understanding of Salesforce configuration and administration. Proficiency with modern software engineering practices: secure frameworks, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines. Ability to design scalable Salesforce architectures and data models.  Understanding of data governance, data quality, and cleansing practices.  Ability to develop integration strategies that avoid API limits and ensure efficient data synchronization.  Experience leading developers, mentoring junior engineers, and guiding cross‑functional teams (mirroring expectations for senior engineering roles in modernization projects). Strong documentation, code review, and quality assurance discipline.  Experience working with user researchers to guide feature development.  Verification Please make sure it is clear  o n your application exactly how y