Release Manager UK

Sopra Steria; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (London)

Job summary

Sopra Steria in London is seeking a Salesforce Release Manager to own end-to-end release and code management across several Salesforce programmes. You will define release strategies, manage deployment pipelines and govern change activities to protect service stability while enabling predictable delivery.

The ideal candidate has proven experience in enterprise Salesforce deployments, governance and KPI reporting, with the ability to engage suppliers and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Strong experience managing Salesforce releases, deployments and code promotion activities in enterprise environments.
• Experience defining and operating release governance, controls and deployment pipelines across multiple workstreams.
• Knowledge of Change Management, Configuration Management and Service Transition processes.
• Experience engaging and influencing suppliers, delivery teams and senior stakeholders.
• Eligibility to obtain Security Clearance (SC).

Responsibilities

• Owning end-to-end Release and Code Management processes across Salesforce programmes and deliveries.
• Defining and managing release strategies, schedules, deployment pipelines and release cadences.
• Chairing Release Control Boards and overseeing release approval and authorisation processes.
• Ensuring compliance with Release and Code Management standards, policies and governance requirements across internal and supplier teams.
• Collaborating with Change, Configuration and Service Transition teams to minimise risk and maintain platform stability.
• Driving continuous improvement through KPI management, reporting, supplier engagement and release performance monitoring.

Skills

Salesforce releases

Release governance

Stakeholder engagement

Security clearance

KPI reporting

Tools

Salesforce DevOps tooling

Job description

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality Salesforce releases in complex enterprise environments? Do you thrive on bringing structure, governance and continuous improvement to release and deployment processes while enabling teams to deliver change safely and efficiently?

We are looking for a Salesforce Release Manager to take ownership of Release and Code Management across multiple Salesforce programmes and deliveries. In this role, you'll be responsible for ensuring that all changes are planned, governed and deployed in accordance with agreed standards, policies and compliance requirements. Working closely with delivery teams, suppliers, service stakeholders and platform leaders, you'll play a critical role in protecting service stability while enabling successful and predictable delivery.

You'll join a collaborative and supportive Salesforce practice where continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and delivery excellence are highly valued. We can offer great career progression opportunities, flexible benefits, training and development opportunities, and the chance to work on large-scale Salesforce transformations supporting some of the UK's most important organisations.

What you’ll be doing:

• Owning end-to-end Release and Code Management processes across Salesforce programmes and deliveries.
• Defining and managing release strategies, schedules, deployment pipelines and release cadences.
• Chairing Release Control Boards and overseeing release approval and authorisation processes.
• Ensuring compliance with Release and Code Management standards, policies and governance requirements across internal and supplier teams.
• Collaborating with Change, Configuration and Service Transition teams to minimise risk and maintain platform stability.
• Driving continuous improvement through KPI management, reporting, supplier engagement and release performance monitoring.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong experience managing Salesforce releases, deployments and code promotion activities within enterprise environments.
• Experience defining and operating release governance, controls and deployment pipelines across multiple workstreams.
• Knowledge of Change Management, Configuration Management and Service Transition processes.
• Experience engaging and influencing suppliers, delivery teams and senior stakeholders.
• Eligibility to obtain Security Clearance (SC).

It would be great if you had:

• Experience working within highly regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Knowledge of Salesforce DevOps tooling and release automation practices.
• Experience establishing release KPIs, reporting frameworks and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience supporting large-scale Salesforce transformation or multi-vendor delivery programmes.
• Salesforce Platform Developer I (PD1) and Platform Developer II (PD2) certifications.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements.

Employment Type:

Full-time, Permanent.

Location:

London (Hybrid, 2 days per week office based)

Security Clearance Level:

SC Eligible.

Salary:

£45,000 - £60,000 per annum

Benefits:

25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

Strategic Digital Solutions

With a long history of delivering transformation, we've developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing – creating value for all.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.