Summary
PingWind is hiring a Salesforce Release Engineer to support VBA's Solutions Delivery Center of Excellence contract work. The role involves implementing scalable solutions using CI/CD within Agile development framework and providing support for various applications like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Pega, Microsoft Power Platform. Responsibilities include planning releases, coordinating resources, managing risks, and preparing release notes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering, or other engineering or technical discipline is required, with 4 years of experience
- Experience working with Salesforce development and testing environments
- Intimate knowledge of source control principles and working in a Git environment
- Previous experience working in a government contract environment is highly desired
- Experience working with the Copado DevOps toolset in Salesforce
- Overall experience in System Design and SDLC lifecycle
- Previous release and/or project management experience
- Experience in all phases of the software development lifecycle including analysis, design, implementation, test, integration, and maintenance
- Experience managing releases for diverse environments with multiple applications and platform types
- Familiarity with Salesforce development best practices
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion
- Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with demonstrated experience
Responsibilities
- Plan the release of project deliverables and Salesforce release life cycle
- Oversight and governance of project release deliverables and assets
- Participate in Sprint cycles to ensure that release assets are throughout the development cycle
- Support the preparation of deployment assets of the product to the target audience in the production environment
- Support the Digital Transformation Center (DTC) in the implementation and release of the configured application into production for end user use
- Prepare Release notes, traceability matrix, deployment guides and system design documents to document the changes in functionality being deployed
- Communicate project-related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements, etc
- Coordinate the release schedule and resources required depending upon the third-party applications, defect backlogs, planned releases, and infrastructure updates
- Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected
- Capture information for new features and enhancements, as well as for the entire release package for the configuration, development and integration services, quality assurance and automation testing
Benefits
- Paid Federal Holidays
- Robust Health & Dental Insurance Options
- 401k with matching
- Paid vacation and sick leave
- Continuing education assistance
- Short Term / Long Term Disability & Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program through Sun Life Financial EAP Guidance Resources
