About this role
Job Requirements
Apply now for the role of Platform Engineering & DevOps Lead within the IT team at Siemens Healthineers Diagnostics. Salesforce is currently the primary technology focus for this role, and you will establish the engineering, environment, automation, deployment, and release foundation required to move Salesforce solutions from prototype through initial implementation.
Your role:
- You will evaluate the deployment, extensibility, automation, and operational capabilities of enterprise application technologies with Salesforce currently being the primary technology focus.
- You will define and govern the Salesforce environment and sandbox strategy, including provisioning, refresh schedules, data seeding, and configuration consistency across development, QA, UAT, staging, and production.
- You will establish and operate CI/CD pipelines and release automation to support controlled, repeatable deployments across Salesforce environments.
- You will govern version control, branching, code promotion, and merge practices across internal teams and implementation partners.
- You will lead release readiness reviews and go/no-go decisions, ensuring test completion, defect status, approvals, cutover readiness, and rollback plans are in place.
- You will maintain deployment runbooks, release notes, rollback plans, and cutover rehearsal materials for major releases and go-lives.
- You will coordinate release dependencies across platform, integration, data migration, analytics, and business workstreams to sequence changes safely.
- You will manage release governance and change control in line with regulated-industry expectations, maintaining traceability from requirement through deployment.
- You will assess the impact of Salesforce seasonal releases, coordinate preview testing, and drive remediation before production upgrades.
- You will communicate release plans, risks, freeze windows, deployment outcomes and escalation needs to technical teams, business stakeholders, and program leadership.
Work Experience
Your expertise:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required; a degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.
- 8+ years of Salesforce delivery experience, including at least 3 years in release management, environment management, or DevOps for enterprise Salesforce programs.
- Proven experience establishing and governing Salesforce DevOps operating models for complex enterprise programs, including roles and responsibilities, CI/CD practices, environment governance, release controls, tooling standards, and partner delivery coordination.
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce CI/CD and release automation tools such as Copado, Gearset, Flosum, Salesforce DevOps Center, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
- Strong command of Git-based version control, branching strategies, metadata management, SFDX, metadata API, and Salesforce deployment mechanics.
- Ability to define and govern sandbox and environment strategies for multi-team, multi-workstream Salesforce programs, including provisioning, refresh cadence, data seeding, and configuration consistency.
- Strong command of Git-based version control, branching strategies, metadata management, SFDX, metadata API, and Salesforce deployment mechanics.
- Experience managing release governance, change control, audit-ready documentation, and traceability expectations in regulated or complex enterprise environments.
- Experience coordinating releases across internal teams, implementation partners, system integrators, and cross-functional business stakeholders in globally distributed programs.
- Strong organizational discipline and ability to manage multiple parallel release streams in a fast-paced, globally distributed program environment.
What will set you apart:
- Copado or Gearset certifications, or Salesforce DevOps Center experience.
- Salesforce Administrator, Platform App Builder, or Development Lifecycle and Deployment Architect credentials.
- ITIL or comparable change/release management certification.
- Experience in healthcare, diagnostics, life sciences, or another regulated industry with formal change control.
- Experience supporting global, multi-region rollouts with phased go-lives and hypercare.
- Familiarity with test automation frameworks for Salesforce (e.g., Provar, Copado Robotic Testing, or Apex test strategy).