I'm working with a national manufacturing company who have recently brought Salesforce in as their trusted CRM. Their projects cover multi-cloud implementations as well as working on some niche Salesforce products.
The Release and Environment Lead is responsible for ensuring the safe, predictable and high-quality delivery of change across the Salesforce platform through effective release management, environment governance and testing leadership. The role is hands-on and governance-led, owning day-to-day operational processes while shaping standards and ways of working across multiple vendors and teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and operate the end-to-end release management process across all Salesforce workstreams and delivery partners.
- Define and maintain the release calendar, coordinating major releases, minor enhancements and hotfixes.
- Facilitate cross-vendor release planning, dependency management and sequencing.
- Ensure releases align with business priorities and are delivered predictably and safely.
- Own the testing strategy across the Salesforce ecosystem, ensuring consistent and effective quality practices across vendors and delivery teams.
- Line manage the internal QA role, setting direction, priorities and development goals.
- Establish and govern testing standards covering functional, regression, integration and UAT testing
- Own the operational environment strategy across Salesforce (e.g. sandboxes, partial/full copies, refresh cycles).
- Plan and manage Salesforce release cycle and managed package release updates.
- Define and govern environment usage, access models and data management standards.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Proven experience leading release and environment management within complex, multi-vendor Salesforce or SaaS ecosystems.
- Experience in defining and running testing strategies across multiple teams.
- Strong understanding of Agile delivery models and cross-team dependency management.
- Comfortable operating in a governance role while remaining hands-on where required.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience working with tools such as Jira, Confluence, CI/CD platforms and test management tooling.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
Benefits:
- Company Pension.
