Role: Salesforce Release Manager
Location: Remote (Canadian Resources Only)
Duration: 6+ Months Can be extended
Tentative Start Date: 2nd Week of January
Domain/Industry: Health Care Preferred
Year of Experience: 10+ Years
Rate: Share the details will discuss moving further.
Overview
The Salesforce Release Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing all phases of Salesforce releases across multiple development streams. This role ensures smooth deployments from development to production environments while maintaining platform stability, quality, governance, and compliance with organizational SDLC and DevOps best practices.
Key Responsibilities
Release Planning & Coordination
Manage the end-to-end Salesforce release lifecycle, including planning, scheduling, and deploying changes across Sandboxes and Production.
Create and maintain a unified release calendar, coordinating with cross-functional teams (Admin, Development, QA, Business).
Evaluate upcoming Salesforce seasonal releases (Winter, Spring, Summer) and coordinate impact assessments.
Deployment Management
Own and operate the CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Salesforce DevOps Center, Copado, Gearset, AutoRABIT, or Azure DevOps.
Oversee version control processes (Git branching, pull requests, code merge strategy).
Ensure proper validation of changes, resolving merge conflicts and deployment errors.
Execute deployments through change sets, SFDX CLI, Metadata API, or DevOps tools.
Quality & Governance
Uphold release governance standards, ensuring all changes comply with SDLC, security, and audit requirements.
Facilitate code review checkpoints, risk assessments, and go/no-go meetings.
Ensure testing cycles (SIT, UAT, Regression) are completed with proper documentation and sign-offs.
Environment & Sandbox Management
Oversee sandbox strategy including refresh cycles, data masking, and alignment of metadata to minimize inconsistencies.
Manage environment access, configuration, and dependencies across multiple clouds (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, FSC, Vlocity/OmniStudio, etc.).
Stakeholder Communication
Act as the central point of contact for release-related communication.
Provide status reports on release readiness, risks, issues, and deployment outcomes.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure timely testing and validation.
Issue Resolution & Post-Release Activities
Conduct root-cause analysis for deployment failures or post-release issues.
Maintain release documentation, deployment notes, and rollback strategies.
Track release performance metrics and continuously improve release processes.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience with Salesforce administration, development, or DevOps.
- Strong understanding of Salesforce metadata, APIs, deployments, and platform architecture.
- Hands-on experience with DevOps tools (Copado, Gearset, DevOps Center, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab).
- Proficiency with Git and branching strategies.
- Experience managing complex enterprise Salesforce environments with multiple clouds.
- Strong communication, project coordination, and problem-solving skills.
- Salesforce certifications such as:
- Salesforce Admin, Platform App Builder
- Platform Developer I (preferred)
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