Release Manager

• Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
• Type: Contract
• Job #14787

MatchBox Consulting Group is currently seeking a Release Manager for a 6 month contract role with a client of ours located in Vancouver.

Responsibilities:
 

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining Salesforce CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Salesforce CLI (SF CLI), and supporting automation tools
• Defining and implementing a scalable Git branching and merging strategy that supports parallel development across multiple Salesforce engineering squads
• Establishing automated workflows for pull request validation, code quality checks using PMD, Apex test execution, and deployments across Salesforce environments
• Developing and implementing automated merge, back-merge, and back-deployment processes to maintain alignment between branches and development, QA, UAT, and production environments
• Identifying and addressing deployment bottlenecks, metadata dependencies, merge conflicts, and environment drift to improve release efficiency and reliability
• Planning, coordinating, and managing end-to-end Salesforce releases, including release intake, deployment schedules, cross-team dependencies, and production readiness
• Facilitating release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, deployment execution, and post-deployment validation in collaboration with engineering, QA, product, and business stakeholders
• Maintaining a consolidated release calendar, ensuring changes across engineering squads are coordinated and aligned with agreed deployment windows and change freezes
• Establishing standardized deployment runbooks, release checklists, rollback and recovery procedures, and production verification processes
• Ensuring compliance with change management, security, and audit requirements while improving deployment traceability through Jira and GitHub
• Supporting sandbox refresh planning, environment synchronization, and post-refresh deployment readiness
• Proactively identifying release risks, dependencies, and issues while communicating release status and mitigation plans to stakeholders.
• Investigating deployment failures and release-related incidents, identifying root causes, and driving improvements to prevent recurrence
• Collaborating with engineering teams to improve source control discipline, deployment automation, and adoption of Salesforce DevOps best practices

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience with Salesforce DevOps, CI/CD pipeline implementation, and managing deployments across multiple Salesforce environments
• Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Salesforce CLI (SF CLI)
• Deep understanding of Git branching strategies, pull request workflows, merge management, and release promotion across multiple development teams
• Experience implementing automated merge, back-merge, and back-deployment workflows while managing conflicts and environment synchronization
• Experience integrating Salesforce Code Analyzer/PMD, automated Apex testing, and deployment validation into CI/CD pipelines
• Possess strong knowledge of Salesforce metadata, deployment dependencies, destructive changes, permission sets, and Salesforce platform deployment considerations
• Proficient with Git, GitHub, Salesforce DX, and VS Code, and have experience scripting deployment automation using Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar technologies
• Proven experience coordinating end-to-end Salesforce releases, including deployment planning, release calendars, risk management, stakeholder communications, and production readiness
• Understand Salesforce sandbox management, environment refreshes, and strategies for maintaining alignment between environments
• Experience establishing release governance, deployment approvals, audit traceability, and change management practices
• Comfortable troubleshooting CI/CD pipeline failures, deployment issues, and production release incidents
• Experience with Jira or similar tools and understand how to establish traceability between development work items, source control changes, and production deployments
• Understanding of Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement and Data Cloud, or a willingness to develop expertise in their deployment capabilities and limitations
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, including application engineering, QA, product management, architecture, infrastructure, and security
• Comfortable taking ownership of ambiguous problems, defining solutions, and driving improvements from concept through implementation
• Proactive in identifying opportunities to automate manual processes and improve deployment efficiency and reliability
• Balance hands-on technical execution with release planning, stakeholder coordination, and operational responsibilities
• Strong collaborator who can influence engineering practices and drive alignment across teams without direct reporting authority

For more current job opportunities, Follow MatchBox at linkedin.com/company/matchbox-recruitment/

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About MatchBox

Headquartered in downtown Vancouver and serving clients nationally, MatchBox is one of the leading recruitment and solutions firms that specializes in the fields of IT & Technology, Engineering & Technical, Real Estate & Construction, and Accounting & Finance. We offer unrivaled expertise with our team’s extensive experience in the recruitment and professional services industry. We are dedicated to building great connections and creating strong opportunities within the workforce and the labor market.

Equal Opportunities

MatchBox is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including members of minority groups such as racialized individuals, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and Indigenous peoples. It is a priority for us that all candidates are treated fairly and without discrimination. Our recruitment teams receive ongoing training on using objective criteria for evaluating candidates and other related topics to create an inclusive and welcoming environment for all.

Work Permits

Please note that we require all interested candidates to obtain the necessary work permits from the Government of Canada prior to submitting an application. This position is open exclusively to individuals residing in Canada and legally authorized to work in Canada. Applications not meeting these criteria will not be considered.

Further Consideration

We receive a high volume of applications and are only able to contact candidates who are selected for further consideration.

Find out more at www.matchboxhr.com