Salesforce Release Engineer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As a Salesforce Release Manager, you will make an impact by leading and coordinating enterprise application releases across Salesforce, MuleSoft, nCino, and integrated applications while ensuring production readiness, governance compliance, and deployment success. You will be a valued member of the delivery team and work collaboratively with Development, QA, UAT, Operations, Business stakeholders, Security teams, Infrastructure teams, and external vendors.

In this role, you will:

Plan, coordinate, and manage end-to-end release activities across Salesforce, MuleSoft, nCino, and integrated applications.
Facilitate impact assessments and coordinate third-party platform releases, including Salesforce seasonal releases and nCino bi-annual releases.
Lead release readiness reviews, go/no-go meetings, and stakeholder communications.
Coordinate deployment activities across Development, QA, UAT, Operations, and Business teams.
Manage pre-production and production deployment processes, including migration, business validation testing (BVT), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), rollback planning, and post-deployment verification.
Identify, assess, and mitigate release-related risks, dependencies, and issues.
Develop and maintain release calendars, schedules, and deployment plans.
Ensure compliance with change management, governance, and audit requirements.
Collaborate with application support, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams to ensure release success.
Monitor release outcomes, track metrics, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Facilitate post-implementation reviews and root cause analysis for release-related incidents.
Support automation initiatives to improve release efficiency and reliability.
Maintain release documentation, runbooks, deployment procedures, and operational readiness artifacts.

Work model

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring attendance in a client or Cognizant office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs. The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.

What you need to have to be considered

7+ years of IT experience with at least 3+ years managing enterprise application releases.
Strong understanding of Salesforce platform architecture and deployment processes.
Experience supporting nCino implementations or platform releases.
Experience coordinating releases involving Salesforce, MuleSoft, APIs, and integrated enterprise applications.
Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile delivery methodologies, release management, and change management processes.
Experience managing SIT, UAT, production deployments, rollback strategies, and post-production validation activities.
Familiarity with security validation processes, including DAST and production readiness assessments.
Strong understanding of risk management, audit requirements, and governance controls.
Experience facilitating executive stakeholder reviews, release readiness meetings, and deployment communications.
Excellent communication, leadership, coordination, and problem-solving skills.

These will help you stand out

Experience driving continuous improvement initiatives for release management practices.
Experience leading post-implementation reviews and release-related root cause analysis activities.
Experience developing and maintaining release calendars, deployment schedules, and operational readiness artifacts.
Experience collaborating across application support, security, infrastructure, and vendor management teams.
Exposure to release automation initiatives and deployment process optimization.

We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.

Applications will be accepted until: 10/30/2026.

Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future.

Salary and Other Compensation

We regularly assess market data to ensure we offer a competitive compensation package for our associates. The base salary for this position ranges between $78,000pa – $125,000pa CAD per year. Where the successful candidate may fall within the range depends on relevant education, work and/or management experience and other business-related and job-necessary qualifications. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual performance-based bonus, as well as benefits that support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Additional employment information
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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Applicants for US based positions must be currently authorized to work for any employer in the United States. The company is unable to provide employment-based immigration sponsorship for US based positions.

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About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.