Salesforce Release Engineer

Cognizant; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 78,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Cognizant in Toronto is seeking a Salesforce Release Manager to lead enterprise release activities across Salesforce, MuleSoft, and nCino. You will align with Development, QA, UAT, Security, and Operations to ensure production readiness and governance compliance.

Hybrid work is available; 7+ years in IT with 3+ years in release management is expected, along with strong Salesforce deployment knowledge and security validation experience. Salary ranges CAD 78k–125k plus bonus and benefits.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT experience with at least 3+ years managing enterprise application releases.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce platform architecture and deployment processes.
• Experience coordinating releases involving Salesforce, MuleSoft, APIs, and integrated enterprise applications.
• Familiarity with security validation processes, including DAST and production readiness assessments.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and manage end-to-end release activities across Salesforce, MuleSoft, nCino, and integrated applications.
• Facilitate impact assessments and coordinate third-party platform releases, including Salesforce seasonal releases and nCino bi-annual releases.
• Lead release readiness reviews, go/no-go meetings, and stakeholder communications.
• Coordinate deployment activities across Development, QA, UAT, Operations, and Business teams.
• Manage pre-production and production deployment processes, including migration, BVT, DAST, rollback planning, and post-deployment verification.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate release-related risks, dependencies, and issues.
• Develop and maintain release calendars, schedules, and deployment plans.
• Ensure compliance with change management, governance, and audit requirements.
• Collaborate with application support, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to ensure release success.
• Monitor release outcomes, track metrics, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate post-implementation reviews and root cause analysis for release-related incidents.
• Support automation initiatives to improve release efficiency and reliability.
• Maintain release documentation, runbooks, deployment procedures, and operational readiness artifacts.

Skills

Release management

Salesforce

nCino

SDLC

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder leadership

Job description

As a Salesforce Release Manager, you will make an impact by leading and coordinating enterprise application releases across Salesforce, MuleSoft, nCino, and integrated applications while ensuring production readiness, governance compliance, and deployment success. You will be a valued member of the delivery team and work collaboratively with Development, QA, UAT, Operations, Business stakeholders, Security teams, Infrastructure teams, and external vendors.

In this role, you will:

• Plan, coordinate, and manage end-to-end release activities across Salesforce, MuleSoft, nCino, and integrated applications.
• Facilitate impact assessments and coordinate third-party platform releases, including Salesforce seasonal releases and nCino bi-annual releases.
• Lead release readiness reviews, go/no-go meetings, and stakeholder communications.
• Coordinate deployment activities across Development, QA, UAT, Operations, and Business teams.
• Manage pre-production and production deployment processes, including migration, business validation testing (BVT), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), rollback planning, and post-deployment verification.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate release-related risks, dependencies, and issues.
• Develop and maintain release calendars, schedules, and deployment plans.
• Ensure compliance with change management, governance, and audit requirements.
• Collaborate with application support, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to ensure release success.
• Monitor release outcomes, track metrics, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate post-implementation reviews and root cause analysis for release-related incidents.
• Support automation initiatives to improve release efficiency and reliability.
• Maintain release documentation, runbooks, deployment procedures, and operational readiness artifacts.

Work model

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring attendance in a client or Cognizant office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs. The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.

What you need to have to be considered

• 7+ years of IT experience with at least 3+ years managing enterprise application releases.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce platform architecture and deployment processes.
• Experience supporting nCino implementations or platform releases.
• Experience coordinating releases involving Salesforce, MuleSoft, APIs, and integrated enterprise applications.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile delivery methodologies, release management, and change management processes.
• Experience managing SIT, UAT, production deployments, rollback strategies, and post-production validation activities.
• Familiarity with security validation processes, including DAST and production readiness assessments.
• Strong understanding of risk management, audit requirements, and governance controls.
• Experience facilitating executive stakeholder reviews, release readiness meetings, and deployment communications.
• Excellent communication, leadership, coordination, and problem-solving skills.

These will help you stand out

• Experience driving continuous improvement initiatives for release management practices.
• Experience leading post-implementation reviews and release-related root cause analysis activities.
• Experience developing and maintaining release calendars, deployment schedules, and operational readiness artifacts.
• Experience collaborating across application support, security, infrastructure, and vendor management teams.
• Exposure to release automation initiatives and deployment process optimization.

Applications will be accepted until: 10/30/2026.

Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future.

Salary and Other Compensation

We regularly assess market data to ensure we offer a competitive compensation package for our associates. The base salary for this position ranges between $78,000pa – $125,000pa CAD per year. Where the successful candidate may fall within the range depends on relevant education, work and/or management experience and other business-related and job-necessary qualifications.

• This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual performance-based bonus,
• as well as benefits that support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.