{"id":1170254,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cencora-lead-engineer-systems-engineering-salesforce-devops","title":"Lead Engineer, Systems Engineering - Salesforce Devops","company":{"id":1040788,"name":"Cencora","domain":"cencora.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cencora","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":87,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":22,"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"}},"role":"Enterprise Apps","role_family":"Enterprise Apps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Pune, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-07T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-07","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T01:47:29Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":19,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":19},"description":"Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!\nJob Details\nSenior Architect - Salesforce Release Engineering (Dev Ops)\nPosition Summary\nThe Senior Architect is responsible for the architecture, design, optimization, and continuous improvement of Salesforce release engineering and DevOps capabilities. This role enables delivery teams to release changes safely, consistently, efficiently, and with appropriate quality controls.\nThe Senior Architect owns the technical design of the Salesforce delivery pipeline and works across architecture, engineering, testing, security, operations, and delivery teams to improve automation, reliability, traceability, and release performance. The role also leads the technical remediation of complex pipeline, environment, deployment, and release-management challenges.\nKey Responsibilities\nDefine and evolve the architecture for Salesforce DevOps, CI/CD, testing integration, deployment automation, and release engineering.\nDesign scalable and repeatable delivery pipelines that support multiple teams, applications, environments, and release schedules.\nEstablish technical standards and patterns for source control, branching, merging, metadata management, packaging, deployment, and rollback.\nIntegrate automated testing, code quality, security validation, and other quality gates into the delivery pipeline.\nPartner with testing teams to improve how unit, integration, regression, and other automated tests support release confidence.\nOptimize pipeline performance, reliability, usability, observability, and maintainability.\nDiagnose and remediate complex pipeline failures, deployment conflicts, environment inconsistencies, test failures, and release bottlenecks.\nDefine environment-management, refresh, configuration, access, and readiness practices that support predictable delivery.\nEstablish release traceability, auditability, approval controls, and production deployment safeguards.\nSupport delivery teams in decomposing changes into deployable increments and sequencing technically dependent releases.\nProvide architecture guidance for complex deployments, data changes, integration releases, platform upgrades, and multi-team release coordination.\nMonitor pipeline health and use metrics to improve deployment frequency, lead time, failure rate, recovery time, and engineering productivity.\nIdentify manual processes and introduce automation where it improves reliability, quality, or delivery speed.\nEvaluate emerging Salesforce DevOps capabilities and recommend improvements aligned with enterprise architecture and security standards.\nPartner with platform, security, engineering, and operations teams to address shared release risks and dependencies.\nDocument standards, reusable pipeline patterns, troubleshooting guidance, and operational procedures.\nCoach Technical Leads and developers on effective DevOps, testing, source-control, and release-engineering practices.\nEscalate material platform, security, or architecture concerns to the Principal Architect and appropriate governance forums.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.\nEight or more years of enterprise technology experience, including substantial experience with Salesforce engineering and DevOps.\nDemonstrated experience designing and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.\nStrong knowledge of Salesforce metadata, development lifecycle, environment management, testing, deployment, and release practices.\nExperience with source control, branching strategies, build automation, quality gates, and release traceability.\nStrong troubleshooting skills across pipelines, deployments, test automation, environments, and platform dependencies.\nExperience supporting multiple delivery teams in a complex enterprise environment.\nUnderstanding of security, access control, auditability, and compliance requirements within DevOps processes.\nStrong documentation, communication, and cross-team facilitation skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nSalesforce architect-level, development, or DevOps-related certifications.\nExperience with enterprise Salesforce DevOps and release-management platforms.\nExperience implementing DevSecOps controls and automated security validation.\nExperience using engineering metrics to drive pipeline and delivery improvement.\nExperience supporting large-scale, multi-org, or globally distributed Salesforce delivery environments.\n.\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.\n6+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, application development, platform engineering, or a related field required.\nAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals, RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator) certification, or equivalent preferred.\nKnowledge of advanced software and systems engineering principles, development lifecycle practices, testing strategies, and production support models.\nKnowledge of application architecture, system design, integration patterns, cloud and infrastructure components, and secure engineering practices.\nKnowledge of performance engineering, scalability, reliability, resilience, observability, and operational support frameworks.\nSkill in technical design, coding or configuration, debugging, root cause analysis, performance tuning, and structured problem solving.\nSkill in using development frameworks, testing tools, source control platforms, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, collaboration platforms, and work management systems.\nAbility to lead complex engineering work independently while applying strong technical judgment, quality standards, and risk awareness.\nAbility to influence technical direction, guide design decisions, and collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nAbility to mentor less experienced engineers and drive adoption of engineering best practices, documentation standards, and continuous improvement methods.\nWhat Cencora offers\nBenefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.\nFull timeAffiliated Companies\nAffiliated Companies: CENCORA BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITEDEqual Employment Opportunity\nCencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.\nThe company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.\nCencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email . We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. 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