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The role will work closely with Salesforce Architects, Developers, QA, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and client stakeholders to ensure that changes are delivered in a controlled, predictable, and high-quality manner.\nThe Release Manager will own the end-to-end Salesforce release lifecycle, including release planning, deployment coordination, environment management, validation, release readiness, production deployment, and post-release activities.\nKey Responsibilities\n1.Release Planning & Coordination\nOwn the Salesforce release calendar and release lifecycle across development, QA, UAT, staging, and production environments.\nCoordinate release scope, timelines, dependencies, milestones, and deployment activities across multiple teams.\nConduct release planning and readiness meetings with Development, QA, BA, Architecture, Product, and business stakeholders.\nTrack release risks, dependencies, blockers, and critical decisions.\nEnsure appropriate release freeze and deployment windows are communicated and followed.\n2.Salesforce Deployment Management\nCoordinate Salesforce metadata deployments across environments.\nReview deployment packages and ensure all required components, dependencies, permissions, and configuration changes are included.\nManage deployment using Salesforce DevOps Center, Salesforce CLI, Metadata API, Change Sets, or enterprise DevOps tools, depending on the project setup.\nCoordinate validation and deployment activities and resolve deployment failures in collaboration with technical teams.\nEnsure appropriate deployment sequencing and dependency management.\n3.Environment Management\nMaintain the Salesforce environment strategy and ensure environments are appropriately aligned to development, testing, UAT, and production activities.\nCoordinate sandbox refreshes, environment readiness, and environment synchronization.\nIdentify and resolve environment conflicts or configuration inconsistencies.\nEnsure development teams are working against the appropriate Salesforce environment and release branch.\n4.Release Quality & Readiness\nEstablish and enforce release readiness criteria and quality gates.\nEnsure completion of appropriate unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, and UAT before production deployment.\nCoordinate defect triage and ensure critical/high-severity defects are resolved or formally accepted before release.\nVerify that deployment artifacts have been validated and that rollback/backout plans are available where required.\nCoordinate production deployment readiness reviews.\n5.DevOps & CI/CD\nEstablish and continuously improve Salesforce CI/CD practices.\nWork with development teams to implement source control, branching, pull requests, automated validation, and deployment pipelines.\nManage and optimize Salesforce DevOps tools such as DevOps Center, Git, GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, Jenkins, Copado, Gearset, or similar platforms.\nPromote repeatable, automated, and traceable release processes.\nMaintain appropriate release documentation and deployment traceability. Salesforce's current DevOps Center supports shared release workflows across admins, developers, QA, and release managers, with source control and governed pipelines.\n6.Governance & Change Management\nEnsure Salesforce releases follow established change management, governance, security, and compliance processes.\nControl production deployment access and ensure appropriate approvals are obtained.\nMaintain release documentation, deployment logs, approvals, and audit trails. • Coordinate emergency/hotfix releases and ensure appropriate approvals and retrospective documentation.\nEnsure production changes are introduced through controlled deployment processes rather than ad-hoc changes wherever applicable.\n7.Cross-Functional Communication\nAct as the primary release coordinator across technical and business teams.\nProvide regular release status updates to project leadership and client stakeholders.\nCommunicate release scope, risks, deployment schedules, dependencies, and readiness status.\nCoordinate war rooms or command centers during major production releases. • Ensure all stakeholders understand deployment impacts and business downtime, if any. 8. Production Deployment & Post-Release Support\nCoordinate production deployment activities and validate deployment completion.\nEnsure post-deployment smoke testing and business validation are completed. • Coordinate immediate production issue resolution and rollback activities when required.\nTrack post-release defects and conduct release retrospectives.\nIdentify opportunities to improve deployment reliability, quality, and cycle time.\nRequirements\nRequired Skills & Experience\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.\n8+ years of experience in Salesforce delivery, Salesforce release management, DevOps, or application release management.\nStrong understanding of Salesforce development and configuration components, including: o Apex o Lightning Web Components (LWC) o Flows o Objects and Fields o Profiles and Permission Sets o Sharing Rules o Validation Rules o Reports and Dashboards o Integrations o Custom Metadata and other Salesforce metadata\nStrong understanding of Salesforce environments, sandbox strategy, deployment dependencies, and release lifecycle.\nHands-on experience with Salesforce deployment tools and processes.\nExperience with Git and source-control-based development.\nGood understanding of CI/CD concepts and Agile/Scrum delivery.\nStrong knowledge of testing, defect management, release governance, and change management.\nExcellent communication, coordination, stakeholder-management, and problem-solving skills. Preferred Qualifications\nSalesforce Administrator or Platform Developer certification.\nSalesforce DevOps Center experience.\nExperience with Copado, Gearset, AutoRABIT, Flosum, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools.\nExperience managing large Salesforce implementations with multiple development teams.\nExperience with Salesforce integrations and complex enterprise releases.\nExperience with Salesforce Industries, Service Cloud and Sales Cloud\nExperience working in regulated industries such as insurance, healthcare, financial services, or nonprofit organizations.\nExperience managing offshore/onshore distributed teams.\nBenefits\nDiversity Inclusion:\nAt Exavalu, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other status protected by applicable law. We nurture a culture that embraces all individuals and promotes diverse perspectives, where you can make an impact and grow your career. Exavalu also promotes flexibility depending on the needs of employees, customers and the business. It might be part-time work, working outside normal 9-5 business hours or working remotely.. 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