Job Description
🚀 Opportunity to Drive Digital Transformation – Salesforce Release Manager
Location: Cardiff hybrid (1 day per week in office)
Salary: up to £58,500 + Civil Service Pension – employer contribution of 28.97%
Are you ready to lead change and shape the future of a key public sector organisation?
This organisation is embarking on an exciting journey to digitalise and transform into a smart, agile operation — fully embracing technologies and modern ways of working.
They now have a pivotal opportunity for a hands-on Salesforce Release Manager to join the team and help deliver strategic change programmes with a focus on agile delivery, CI/CD, and platform governance.
🔧 The Role
As a Salesforce Release Manager, you’ll manage the end-to-end release cycle of Salesforce applications that support mission-critical business functions. You’ll play a key role in release planning, deployment, and support, collaborating with delivery teams and stakeholders across the organisation.
In this hands-on role, you’ll:
* Plan and coordinate complex releases across multiple teams and agile sprints.
* Manage and execute Salesforce deployments with minimal disruption to business operations.
* Implement robust governance and change control processes to safeguard environment integrity.
* Oversee regression testing, post-deployment validation, and production support.
* Maintain comprehensive release documentation using Azure DevOps and Confluence.
* Work closely with developers, QA, and DevOps teams to ensure smooth CI/CD processes.
🎯 Your Experience and Background
We’re looking for someone who thrives on delivery, can get hands-on with tooling and configuration, and has the technical depth to work closely with developers and DevOps engineers.
You’ll bring:
* Proven experience managing Salesforce releases using tools such as Azure DevOps (highly desirable), Salesforce DX, Gearset, CLI, or ANT Migration Tool.
* Practical familiarity with Azure DevOps, including Pipelines, Repos, Test Plans, and SonarQube for code quality checks.
* Experience working directly with VS Code and relevant extensions (Salesforce CLI, extensions for code analysis).
* A background in software development is highly desirable — understanding developer workflows will help you thrive in this role.
* Strong grasp of CI/CD concepts and experience implementing automation in Salesforce deployment pipelines.
* Working knowledge of multiple Salesforce Clouds and understanding of their release nuances.
Experience with alternative tooling or platforms is also valued — we’re open to candidates who can adapt and bring cross-tool experience.
🌟 Why Join?
This is a rare opportunity to play a central role in a wide-reaching digital transformation. You’ll join a supportive and forward-thinking environment where innovation is encouraged, and your contributions will have a meaningful impact on both the organisation and the communities it serves.
With a generous Civil Service pension, flexible hybrid working, and a collaborative culture, this is the perfect platform to grow your impact and career.