Senior Architect – Salesforce Release Engineering (Dev Ops)

Position Summary

The Senior Architect is responsible for the architecture, design, optimization, and continuous improvement of Salesforce release engineering and DevOps capabilities. This role enables delivery teams to release changes safely, consistently, efficiently, and with appropriate quality controls.

The Senior Architect owns the technical design of the Salesforce delivery pipeline and works across architecture, engineering, testing, security, operations, and delivery teams to improve automation, reliability, traceability, and release performance. The role also leads the technical remediation of complex pipeline, environment, deployment, and release-management challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture for Salesforce DevOps, CI/CD, testing integration, deployment automation, and release engineering.
• Design scalable and repeatable delivery pipelines that support multiple teams, applications, environments, and release schedules.
• Establish technical standards and patterns for source control, branching, merging, metadata management, packaging, deployment, and rollback.
• Integrate automated testing, code quality, security validation, and other quality gates into the delivery pipeline.
• Partner with testing teams to improve how unit, integration, regression, and other automated tests support release confidence.
• Optimize pipeline performance, reliability, usability, observability, and maintainability.
• Diagnose and remediate complex pipeline failures, deployment conflicts, environment inconsistencies, test failures, and release bottlenecks.
• Define environment-management, refresh, configuration, access, and readiness practices that support predictable delivery.
• Establish release traceability, auditability, approval controls, and production deployment safeguards.
• Support delivery teams in decomposing changes into deployable increments and sequencing technically dependent releases.
• Provide architecture guidance for complex deployments, data changes, integration releases, platform upgrades, and multi-team release coordination.
• Monitor pipeline health and use metrics to improve deployment frequency, lead time, failure rate, recovery time, and engineering productivity.
• Identify manual processes and introduce automation where it improves reliability, quality, or delivery speed.
• Evaluate emerging Salesforce DevOps capabilities and recommend improvements aligned with enterprise architecture and security standards.
• Partner with platform, security, engineering, and operations teams to address shared release risks and dependencies.
• Document standards, reusable pipeline patterns, troubleshooting guidance, and operational procedures.
• Coach Technical Leads and developers on effective DevOps, testing, source-control, and release-engineering practices.
• Escalate material platform, security, or architecture concerns to the Principal Architect and appropriate governance forums.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Eight or more years of enterprise technology experience, including substantial experience with Salesforce engineering and DevOps.
• Demonstrated experience designing and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Strong knowledge of Salesforce metadata, development lifecycle, environment management, testing, deployment, and release practices.
• Experience with source control, branching strategies, build automation, quality gates, and release traceability.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across pipelines, deployments, test automation, environments, and platform dependencies.
• Experience supporting multiple delivery teams in a complex enterprise environment.
• Understanding of security, access control, auditability, and compliance requirements within DevOps processes.
• Strong documentation, communication, and cross-team facilitation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Salesforce architect-level, development, or DevOps-related certifications.
• Experience with enterprise Salesforce DevOps and release-management platforms.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps controls and automated security validation.
• Experience using engineering metrics to drive pipeline and delivery improvement.
• Experience supporting large-scale, multi-org, or globally distributed Salesforce delivery environments.

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Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience required. Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred. 6+ years of experience in software engineering, systems engineering, application development, platform engineering, or a related field required. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals, RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator) certification, or equivalent preferred. Knowledge of advanced software and systems engineering principles, development lifecycle practices, testing strategies, and production support models. Knowledge of application architecture, system design, integration patterns, cloud and infrastructure components, and secure engineering practices. Knowledge of performance engineering, scalability, reliability, resilience, observability, and operational support frameworks. Skill in technical design, coding or configuration, debugging, root cause analysis, performance tuning, and structured problem solving. Skill in using development frameworks, testing tools, source control platforms, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, collaboration platforms, and work management systems. Ability to lead complex engineering work independently while applying strong technical judgment, quality standards, and risk awareness. Ability to influence technical direction, guide design decisions, and collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Ability to mentor less experienced engineers and drive adoption of engineering best practices, documentation standards, and continuous improvement methods.

What Cencora offers

​Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

Full time

Affiliated Companies

Affiliated Companies: AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation

Equal Employment Opportunity

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