Environment Manager

CO_SNFSL Apex Group Fiduciary Services; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

The Apex Group is seeking an Environment Manager for India, overseeing the day-to-day coordination, governance, and health of all Workday and Salesforce environments. This hybrid role requires balancing production stability with testing and release activities across stakeholders, including internal teams and vendors.

You will ensure environments are correctly configured, aligned to releases, and available for testing and delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience managing Workday and Salesforce environments.
• Knowledge of environment lifecycle planning and release readiness.
• Strong coordination between internal teams, system integrators, and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain environment strategy across Workday and Salesforce.
• Oversee end-to-end environment lifecycle planning and optimisation.
• Coordinate bi-annual Workday releases and seasonal Salesforce releases.
• Manage governance, access controls, and compliance for environments.
• Support testing, go-live cutovers, and incident management.

Skills

Workday

Salesforce

Environment mgmt

Release coordination

Automation

Job description

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world's largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That's why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply 'empower' you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we'll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

Job Title

Environment Manager

Location

India / 4 days per week in the office / 1 day WFH

Department

Group Enterprise Applications / HR Technology

Role Purpose

The Environment Manager is responsible for the day-to-day coordination, governance, and operational health of all Workday and Salesforce environments (Production and non‑Production). This role ensures environments are correctly configured, available, and aligned to release, testing, and change activities across all stakeholders. The position acts as the central point of coordination between internal teams, system integrators, Workday and Salesforce, ensuring environment usage is controlled, compliant, and supports business delivery without risk to Production stability.

Key Responsibilities

• Environment Strategy & Continuous Improvement
  
  
  
  • Define and maintain the environment strategy across Workday and Salesforce, ensuring optimal allocation of environments to projects, testing cycles, and BAU needs.
  
  
  • Identify opportunities to reduce environment conflicts, improve deployment speed, and increase testing effectiveness.
  
  
  • Drive automation and tooling improvements to streamline refresh, configuration validation, and release readiness.
  
  
  • Maintain environment documentation, landscape diagrams, and operational runbooks.
  
  
  
  


• Workday-Salesforce Environment Management
  
  
  
  • Coordinate and oversee all Workday-Salesforce environments (e.g. Production, Sandbox, Implementation, Testing).
  
  
  • Manage the end‑to‑end environment lifecycle strategy (planning, forecasting, optimisation)
  
  
  • Maintain clear ownership, purpose, and usage rules for each environment.
  
  
  • Ensure environments are appropriately refreshed, prepared, and validated for testing and release activities.
  
  
  • Responsibility for coordinating environment dependencies between Workday, Salesforce, integration platforms, and downstream systems.
  
  
  • Monitor environment availability, performance, and readiness in line with business needs.
  
  
  
  


• Release & Change Coordination
  
  
  
  • Coordinate Workday bi‑annual releases across environments, including readiness activities, testing cycles, and deployment sequencing.
  
  
  • Coordinate Salesforce seasonal releases (Spring, Summer, Winter).
  
  
  • Oversee change freeze management and ensure communication of blackout windows.
  
  
  • Manage early adopter tenants (Workday Preview, Salesforce sandboxes).
  
  
  • Provide risk assessments related to environment or release conflicts.
  
  
  • Manage environment schedules to support parallel initiatives (projects, enhancements, BAU changes).
  
  
  • Act as a key interface between change management, HRIS, Finance Systems, and technical teams.
  
  
  • Ensure changes are promoted through environments in line with governance and controls.
  
  
  
  


• Testing & Deployment Support
  
  
  
  • Plan and coordinate environment usage for unit, system, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
  
  
  • Ensure environments are correctly configured and data is suitable for testing purposes.
  
  
  • Support defect triage and resolution related to environment configuration or refresh activities.
  
  
  • Coordinate go‑live cutovers from non‑Production to Production environments.
  
  
  
  


• Governance & Controls
  
  
  
  • Define and maintain the environment architecture, including naming conventions, data refresh rules, branching/tenant strategy.
  
  
  • Maintain alignment with IT security, data masking, integration architecture.
  
  
  • Partner with solution architects to ensure changes align to environment strategy.
  
  
  • Enforce environment access controls and usage standards.
  
  
  • Support audit, compliance, and risk activities related to Workday and Salesforce environments.
  
  
  • Maintain documentation covering environment strategy, refresh cycles, and operating procedures.
  
  
  • Ensure alignment with internal IT controls and Workday / Salesforce best practices.
  
  
  
  


• Stakeholder & Vendor Management
  
  
  
  • Act as the primary point of contact for environment-related queries.
  
  
  • Act as the operational owner during high‑severity environment incidents.
  
  
  • Coordinate with Workday‑Salesforce and Tech teams for environment issues and requests.
  
  
  • Communicate environment availability, constraints, and changes to impacted stakeholders.
  
  
  
  

Key Skil