Release Lead (Salesforce and MuleSoft Exp)

Plan, schedule and coordinate Salesforce and MuleSoft releases across Dev, QA/SIT, UAT, Staging and Production environments. Run the release calendar, release readiness reviews, go/no-go meetings and post-deployment validation. Own deployment runbooks, rollback plans and release notes for every release, including hotfixes and emergency changes. Track and resolve deployment conflicts, dependencies and blockers across multiple scrum teams working in parallel. CI/CD with GitHub and GitHub Actions Dsign, build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows that validate, test and deploy Salesforce metadata and MuleSoft applications automatically. Define and enforce branching strategy (GitFlow, trunk-based or release branches), pull request reviews, branch protection rules and merge policies. Automate Salesforce deployments using Salesforce CLI (sf/sfdx), Metadata API, unlocked or unmanaged packages and delta (incremental) deployments. Automate MuleSoft builds and deployments using Maven, the Mule Maven Plugin and Anypoint CLI to CloudHub 1.0/2.0, Runtime Fabric. Manage secrets, connected apps, JWT authentication and environment-specific properties securely in GitHub Environments and Secrets. Integrate quality gates: Apex test execution and code coverage, MUnit tests, PMD / Salesforce Code Analyzer, and security scans. Salesforce environment and portal management Deploy Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Experience Cloud (community/portal) sites, including site configuration, LWC, Apex, flows and profiles/permission sets. Manage sandbox strategy, refreshes, seeding of test data and post-refresh steps. Keep environments in sync and resolve metadata drift between orgs. MuleSoft deployment Deploy and promote MuleSoft APIs and integrations through Anypoint Platform environments, including API Manager policies, properties and client configurations. Coordinate Salesforce and MuleSoft release dependencies so integrations and the orgs they connect go live together. Governance and continuous improvement Maintain release documentation, change records and audit trails to meet SOX, internal change management or ITIL requirements. Monitor pipeline health, deployment success rates and lead time, and continuously reduce manual steps. Mentor developers on Git, source-driven development and deployment best practices.