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