Salesforce Release Lead – Onsite, 6-Month Contract

TekWissen LLC; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

TekWissen LLC in Louisville, KY seeks an experienced Salesforce Release Manager to oversee planning, coordination, governance, and deployments across multiple environments. You will manage end-to-end release activities and collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, Developers, QA, and DevOps to ensure smooth deliveries.

The role requires strong knowledge of Salesforce deployments, change management, and CI/CD practices. Onsite work in Louisville with enterprise-grade processes is expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT experience.
• 4+ years of Salesforce release or deployment management experience.
• Experience managing large-scale multi-team Salesforce releases.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce metadata deployment strategies.
• Experience with CI/CD implementation and DevOps practices.
• Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with enterprise change management processes.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Salesforce release calendar and deployment schedule.
• Coordinate releases across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and custom Salesforce applications.
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, Developers, QA teams, and DevOps engineers to ensure release readiness.
• Manage deployment activities for production, UAT, SIT, and lower environments.
• Conduct release planning, risk assessment, and impact analysis.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise change management and release governance processes.
• Facilitate CAB (Change Advisory Board) approvals and release reviews.
• Coordinate code freezes, deployment windows, rollback planning, and post-release validations.
• Track deployment dependencies across Salesforce and integrated systems.
• Monitor release metrics, deployment success rates, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage emergency, hotfix, and patch releases when required.
• Communicate release status, risks, issues, and milestones to stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure production support teams are prepared for releases and post-deployment activities.

Skills

Salesforce Release Management

CI/CD Pipeline Management

DevOps

Release Governance

Change Management

Jira

Azure DevOps

GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket

Jenkins

Copado

Gearset

AutoRABIT

Salesforce DX (SFDX)

Environment Management

Tools

Copado

Gearset

AutoRABIT

Salesforce DX (SFDX)

GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Jira

ServiceNow

Job description

TekWissen LLC in Louisville, KY seeks an experienced Salesforce Release Manager to oversee planning, coordination, governance, and deployments across multiple environments. You will manage end-to-end release activities and collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, Developers, QA, and DevOps to ensure smooth deliveries.

The role requires strong knowledge of Salesforce deployments, change management, and CI/CD practices. Onsite work in Louisville with enterprise-grade processes is expected.