Release Manager UK

Salesforce Release Manager

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality Salesforce releases in complex enterprise environments? Do you thrive on bringing structure, governance and continuous improvement to release and deployment processes while enabling teams to deliver change safely and efficiently?

We are looking for a Salesforce Release Manager to take ownership of Release and Code Management across multiple Salesforce programmes and deliveries. In this role, you'll be responsible for ensuring that all changes are planned, governed and deployed in accordance with agreed standards, policies and compliance requirements. Working closely with delivery teams, suppliers, service stakeholders and platform leaders, you'll play a critical role in protecting service stability while enabling successful and predictable delivery.

You'll join a collaborative and supportive Salesforce practice where continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and delivery excellence are highly valued. We can offer great career progression opportunities, flexible benefits, training and development opportunities, and the chance to work on large-scale Salesforce transformations supporting some of the UK's most important organisations.

What you'll be doing:

• Owning end-to-end Release and Code Management processes across Salesforce programmes and deliveries.
• Defining and managing release strategies, schedules, deployment pipelines and release cadences.
• Chairing Release Control Boards and overseeing release approval and authorisation processes.
• Ensuring compliance with Release and Code Management standards, policies and governance requirements across internal and supplier teams.
• Collaborating with Change, Configuration and Service Transition teams to minimise risk and maintain platform stability.
• Driving continuous improvement through KPI management, reporting, supplier engagement and release performance monitoring.

What you'll bring:

• Salesforce Platform Developer I (PD1) and Platform Developer II (PD2) certifications.
• Strong experience managing Salesforce releases, deployments and code promotion activities within enterprise environments.
• Experience defining and operating release governance, controls and deployment pipelines across multiple workstreams.
• Knowledge of Change Management, Configuration Management and Service Transition processes.
• Experience engaging and influencing suppliers, delivery teams and senior stakeholders.
• Eligibility to obtain Security Clearance (SC).

It would be great if you had:

• Experience working within highly regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Knowledge of Salesforce DevOps tooling and release automation practices.
• Experience establishing release KPIs, reporting frameworks and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience supporting large-scale Salesforce transformation or multi-vendor delivery programmes.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.

Location: London (Hybrid, 2 days per week office based)

Security Clearance Level: SC Eligible.

Internal Recruiter: Ross.

Salary: £45,000 - £60,000 per annum

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

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