Copado Release Lead

Are you ready to join a growing team that puts a premium on productivity and has an award-winning culture centered around transforming talented employees into effective business leaders? Then BHG Financial is the place for you. In 2001, we started with an idea, an opportunity, and $25,000. Back then, our focus was strictly 
on serving those in the medical industry. With healthcare in our heritage, we soon expanded 
to serve high-earning professionals in many 
other industries, providing all with leading-edge financial solutions, including our extensive network of community banks.Today, BHG Financial has firmly established 
its legacy as a leader in the financial services space. Founded on the philosophy of a better way to borrow, we are dedicated to helping accomplished professionals, small businesses, and institutions build upon their success through innovative financial solutions, a hassle-free process, and personalized concierge service.Our relentless commitment to the success of our customers is part of what has made BHG Financial thrive. We take a 360-degree view of our customers to tailor the best solutions for their financial aspirations. Today's professionals have multiple sources of income, not just their paycheck. Therefore, it is essential to factor those in when making responsible lending decisions. Our continued focus on data, analytics, and proprietary modeling has enabled faster funding for our customers. From business to personal loans to relationships with community banks, the country’s top professionals and business owners rely on us for our exceptional financial solutions and concierge service to continue their success and legacy. Who You Are We are looking for an experienced, curious, and driven Copado Release Lead to own and orchestrate the end-to-end Salesforce release process using the Copado DevOps platform. This is a hands-on leadership role at the intersection of Salesforce delivery, DevOps engineering, sandbox management, and cross-team collaboration. You will serve as the primary gatekeeper for release quality, pipeline governance, sandbox environment health, and deployment automation. You will lead a small team of Release Support Specialists, mentor them, and represent the release function in Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings. You will work closely with distributed development teams, QA, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure every release is safe, traceable, and delivered on time. The right person for this role does not wait for answers to come to them. They ask the right questions early, surface risk before it becomes a problem, and keep every stakeholder ahead of the curve. Curiosity and proactiveness are not optional here. They are core to the job. What You'll Do Release Planning and Coordination Lead end-to-end release planning across multiple Salesforce environments, including Dev, UAT, Staging, and Production. Define and maintain release schedules, milestones, and sprint-to-release mappings in alignment with Agile/Scrum delivery cadences. Manage all release-related work items, epics, and tasks in Jira, keeping boards, backlogs, and roadmaps accurate and up to date. Coordinate across developers, admins, QA, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure releases are well-scoped and ready for deployment. Manage and prioritize user story promotion queues, resolving blockers and escalating risk items proactively. Anticipate downstream impacts of every planned release and raise questions early rather than discovering gaps at deployment time. Sandbox Refresh Management and Planning Own the end-to-end sandbox refresh lifecycle for all Salesforce sandboxes across the environment landscape. Build and maintain a Sandbox Refresh Calendar in Jira, scheduling refreshes well in advance to minimize disruption to development and testing cycles. Proactively engage all stakeholders before each refresh: confirm readiness, identify in-flight work that could be lost, and communicate blackout windows clearly. Coordinate post-refresh activities, including data masking, configuration restoration, connected app re-authorization, and integration re-pointing. Identify and track sandbox-specific dependencies (custom settings, named credentials, external system endpoints) and ensure they are restored consistently after every refresh. Maintain a Sandbox Inventory in Jira, documenting each sandbox's purpose, current branch alignment, refresh frequency, and owner. Proactively ask teams the hard questions: What are you currently building in this org? What will you lose if we refresh now? What does your testing window look like for the next sprint? Evaluate sandbox health on a recurring basis and recommend refresh cadence adjustments as the release pipeline evolves. Collaborate with the Copado Admin to ensure sandbox connections and pipeline configurations are re-validated after every refresh. Team Mentorship Lead a small team of Release Support Specialists responsible for day-to-day pro