Release Manager: Salesforce

Boardroom Appointments; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking a Release Manager for Salesforce to operationalise and maintain the platform. You will own the release lifecycle, design and deploy changes, and drive governance aligned with best practices. The role requires extensive Salesforce experience and leadership in DevOps.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to schedule releases, manage data migrations, and mentor engineers while advancing automation and API integrations across the production environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience on the Salesforce platform including release management.
• Experience with at least 2 Salesforce Cloud platforms or installed apps.
• Experience managing release processes for onboarding projects and data migrations.
• Hands-on Salesforce configurations, roles, profiles, and Apex.
• Knowledge of deployment tools and branch strategies; conflict resolution.
• Proven DevOps leadership and mentoring of engineers.
• Industry experience with Big Data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of all aspects to keep a healthy Salesforce platform.
• Design, test, deploy and maintain the Salesforce platform per governance.
• Plan and control the software delivery life cycle (SDLC).
• Enable DevOps best practices and automation across the platform.

Skills

Communications Skills

Planning, Organising & Coordination

Mentoring Engineers

APIs & Integration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT - Computer Science or IT Engineering

Honours Degree in IT - Computer Science or IT Engineering

Tools

Force.com Migration Tools

Salesforce Tools IDE

GitLab

Version Control (AutoRABIT)

Job description

About the job Release Manager: Salesforce

Key purpose:

To operationalise the companys Business Banking Salesforce platform

Duties and responsibilities:

• Taking ownership of all aspects related to ensuring a healthy Salesforce.com platform.
• Designing, testing, deploying and maintaining the platform in line with governance, standards and relevant frameworks.
• Taking responsibility for scheduling, planning and controlling the software delivery life cycle (SDLC).
• Enabling DevOps best practice, ideas, innovation and automation across the platform

Qualifications and experience:

• Minimum 5 years experience on the Salesforce platform inclusive of release management, Salesforce Administrator, and implementing Salesforce.com technology-based solutions (and 3 - 5 years in a DevOps or IT Engineering role)
• Must have experience with at least 2 different Salesforce Cloud platforms (for ex: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Financial Services Cloud) or Installed Applications.
• Experience of working on enterprise Salesforce.com platform and the implications related to Release Management.
• Experience managing the release processes for business on-boarding projects and data migrations.
• Hands on experience with Salesforce.com configurations, roles, profiles, strong APEX experience, and other permission controls.
• Proven experience and proficiency in refreshing a sandbox, must know how to package and deploy metadata components, knowledge on release branching strategies, code merging and should have worked on conflict resolution strategies.
• Proven experience managing DevOps teams and mentoring engineers
• Industry experience working with Big Data platforms
• Experience in using and manipulating APIs, API documentation
• Visualization experience advantage (ELK, Grafana, Splunk)
• 7+ years experience on the Salesforce platform
• 5 years in a DevOps or IT Engineering role
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology - Computer Science or Information Technology - IT Engineering
• Honours Degree in Information Technology - Computer Science or Information Technology - IT Engineering

Knowledge of:

• A strong understanding of CRM, Sales, Marketing, and other business processes.
• Good knowledge and experience with AppExchange products and understanding of how to install/de-install.
• Should have strong understanding of deployments using Force.com migration tools (Salesforce Tools IDE, GITlab, and Version Control i.e. AutoRabit ).

Ideal:

• Salesforce.com declarative and custom development

Skills:

• Communications Skills
• Planning, organising and coordination skills