Job Description :
Description:
In the role of Technology Lead- Release Manager SFDC, you are responsible for the continuous delivery of application releases supporting mission critical services used by the world’s largest enterprises. You leverage product management practices to define and program management practices to lead innovative initiatives focused on customer experience, scalability, continuous delivery and team development. You use agile methodologies to plan, coordinate, and lead deployments of major product releases, weekly patches, and daily changes in a SaaS environment.
Qualifications (Basic)
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required. Will also consider one year of relevant work experience in lieu of every year of education
At least 7 years of experience in implementing CRM solutions with a minimum of 5 years Salesforce Force.com platform, Sales, Service Cloud implementations on lightning
Preferred:
At least 5 years of experience in Salesforce development and implementations Skills with good command on Apex, Visual force, controllers, triggers, batch processes, APIs and web services
Thorough understanding on the Life Cycle of Development including Salesforce Deployment/Packaging effectively using Metadata API, Change Set and Ant
Define and implement a standardized deployment schedules that delivers hotfix, minor, medium and major releases (using GITHub, Copado, ant, eclipse and salesforce methods)
Define and manage change control process for development and release readiness criteria and ensure all changes meet criteria prior to deployment
Prepare and Setup Branching in Release Management Tools (for e.g.: GITHub) and wherever required write automation scripts for Automating Releases
Prepare and setup best practices for deployments using Copado
Accounting for any dependencies and risks along the way; identify issues and perform root-cause analysis to ensure they are not repeated
Facilitate release activities across all Salesforce development teams, ensuring easy and timely deployments across environments (e.g. Salesforce.com, Heroku, DevOps Applications)
Work with Salesforce Development Team(s) to maintain allowed Test coverage in salesforce and resolve all the Deployment errors
Monitor all lower environments (Salesforce Sandboxes) for release process / creating and synchronizing sandbox metadata and appropriate data sets
Validate Post Release Activities /Track release metrics to improvement and report successes/failures to stakeholders and Teams
Work with Salesforce Support Team – Coordinate Salesforce Release Calls, MCS Calls, Support Activities.
Should have strong understanding of deployments using Force.com migration tools (Salesforce Tools IDE, GITHub, Copado)
Perform and Support on Salesforce Administration Activities
Must have minimum 5 years of experience in multi-vendor, multi release environment
Must have Salesforce Administration and Good to have Dev Platform 1 Certification
Chosen person will execute the daily, weekly and monthly deployments from various teams in a parallel development environment