Release Manager

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, plan and maintain the release roadmap for one or more applications
• 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 Release Managers, Test Managers, Product Owners, Execution Leads, Scrum Masters and Operations teams 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
• Ability to pay attention to details 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 the ability to communicate effectively with development teams
• Experience creating and validating deployment runbooks in collaboration with technical teams
• Experience working with incident, problem and change management processes and tools under the ITIL framework
• Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experience working 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

Nice to have

• Experience in the banking sector
• Experience with incident, problem and change management processes on the client side