Release Manager

Quick Facts

• Role: Release Manager

Description

Coordinate, plan, and maintain the release roadmap for one or more applications, including planning and coordination of parallel releases and deployments. Plan release go-live and post-go-live activities, lead release decision meetings to secure stakeholder approval, and track change activities throughout the release process. Improve release quality and efficiency through automation, release orchestration, and DevOps practices while collaborating with Release Managers, Test Managers, Product Owners, Execution Leads, Scrum Masters, and Operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, plan, and maintain the release roadmap
• Plan and coordinate multiple parallel releases and deployments
• Plan release go-live and post-go-live activities
• Plan, coordinate, and track change activities throughout the release process
• Lead release decision meetings and secure stakeholder approval for release milestones
• Plan and facilitate handover sessions between development and operations teams
• Collaborate with multiple delivery and operations roles to ensure successful deliveries
• Improve release quality and efficiency through automation, release orchestration, and DevOps practices

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT or a related discipline
• Minimum 5 years of experience in IT project management and planning
• Proven experience in release or deployment management activities
• Strong networking, interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Analytical mindset with strong coordination and planning abilities
• Attention to detail while maintaining an overall view of deliveries and dependencies
• Accountability, proactivity, and ability to adapt quickly to change
• Practical understanding of Agile, Scrum, and SAFe methodologies
• Highly proficient spoken and written English
• Technical mindset with ability to communicate effectively with development teams
• Experience creating and validating deployment runbooks with technical teams
• Experience working with incident, problem, and change management processes and tools under ITIL
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices
• Basic understanding of DevOps ways of working
• Ability to work with release orchestration tools and automated release pipelines
• Flexibility to work paid evening and weekend hours during implementation activities

Benefits

Not specified in the provided posting.