Salesforce Release Manager

Required Technical Skills

Salesforce

• Salesforce Administration
• Salesforce Development Lifecycle
• Apex
• Lightning Web Components (LWC)
• Visualforce
• SOQL/SOSL
• Salesforce Metadata API
• Salesforce DX (SFDX)

DevOps & CI/CD

• AutoRABIT
• Git
• GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket
• Jenkins
• Azure DevOps
• CI/CD Pipeline Design
• Release Automation
• Source Control Management

Deployment & Environment Management

• Change Sets
• SFDX Deployments
• Environment Strategy
• Version Control
• Release Governance

Quality & Security

• Code Review Processes
• Static Code Analysis
• Deployment Validation
• Rollback Planning
• Security & Compliance Controls

Required Experience

• 8+ years of IT experience with at least 5+ years in Salesforce Release Management.
• Hands-on experience with AutoRABIT Release Management and CI/CD implementation.
• Proven experience managing enterprise-scale Salesforce production releases.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, and DevOps delivery models.
• Experience supporting highly regulated environments such as Banking, Financial Services, Healthcare, or Insurance.

Roles & Responsibilities

Release Management

• Own end-to-end Salesforce release planning, scheduling, coordination, and deployment activities.
• Manage multiple concurrent releases across Development, QA, UAT, Staging, and Production environments.
• Establish release calendars and coordinate deployments across business and technology teams.
• Ensure adherence to release governance, change management, and compliance requirements.
• Coordinate release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and post-deployment validations.

Salesforce DevOps & CI/CD

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce applications.
• Automate deployment processes using AutoRABIT and Salesforce DevOps best practices.
• Manage branching strategies, version control, merge processes, and code promotion activities.
• Monitor deployment pipelines and proactively resolve deployment failures.
• Drive continuous integration and continuous delivery improvements.

AutoRABIT Administration

• Configure and maintain AutoRABIT Release Management, CodeScan, and Backup modules.
• Implement deployment automation, rollback strategies, and release orchestration.
• Manage metadata deployments across Salesforce environments.
• Perform deployment validations and release audits.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise release standards and controls.

Salesforce Platform Management

• Support releases involving:

o Sales Cloud

o Service Cloud

o Experience Cloud

o Salesforce Integrations

• Coordinate with Salesforce Developers, Architects, QA, Product Owners, and Business Teams.
• Assess release impacts and dependency management.

Environment & Change Management

• Manage Salesforce environment strategy and refresh schedules.
• Coordinate data migration and environment synchronization.
• Review Change Requests (CRs) and deployment packages.
• Ensure proper documentation of release notes, deployment guides, and rollback procedures.

Risk & Governance

• Identify deployment risks and dependencies.
• Lead release war rooms during critical production deployments.
• Conduct root cause analysis for deployment failures.
• Establish release KPIs and operational dashboards.
• Drive continuous process improvement initiatives.