About this role
Job Description
Your Responsibilities
- Define release schedules, milestones, and deliverables to meet project deadlines and business objectives for releases
- Work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple releases simultaneously
- Perform Release Management and Cutover Management activities across various technologies, applications and platforms such as ERPs, CRM systems, Enterprise Application systems, Full-Stack applications and should learn any technology specific details relevant to Release Management and Cutover activities quickly
- Own integrated release and cutover planning for complex releases, including sequencing, dependencies, cross-functional coordination, and escalation
- Own end-to-end release readiness across application, testing, environment, security, business, and operational dependencies, release quality gates before approving movement to production
- Drive release risk and dependency management, proactively identifying conflicts, cross-product impacts, freeze-period constraints, and business-critical risks
- Partner with Environment Management to confirm environment availability, configuration readiness, refreshes, access, data readiness, and production/non-production alignment
- Manage enterprise release calendars and collision management across product families, applications, platforms, plant operations, blackout periods, major business events and system freezes
- Own release metrics to identify areas for improvement and implement corrective actions
- Drive continuous automation of release processes, including CI/CD integration, automated quality gates, deployment orchestration, release dashboards, and reduction of manual handoffs
- Exhibit ability to work both in a team environment and independently
- Should be able to work with ambiguity and bring clarity to the plan
- Stay up-to-date with technologies, industry trends, and best practices, applying relevant knowledge to enhance Release Management practices
- Drive process improvements to optimize the release management process and increase efficiency
- Maintain a positive work environment through teamwork & conflict resolution
- Expected to work occasional weekends, holidays, or a variety of shifts, when needed, to support production releases
Your Profile
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in IT Releases or Delivery
- Experience in large-scale implementations, releases, scheduled release such as daily, weekly, monthly quarterly, minor – across multiple technologies
- Experience in managing end-to-end enterprise releases, including release readiness, cutover, deployment, go/no-go, rollback/backout, and post-release stabilization
- Experience with release governance, controls, and audit/compliance requirements, including change approvals and evidence
- Strong experience managing release risks, dependencies, conflicts, and escalations across multiple applications, platforms, and teams.
- Experience with coordinating with teams for environment readiness and deployment across non-production and production environments
- Experience in defining and using release metrics
- Experience with Change Request creation using tools such as ServiceNow
- Ability to learn application or technology specific tools and processes relevant to Release Management quickly and own the Release Management process
- Ability to lead cross-functional releases, and command centers during major releases and production deployment
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills, including communicating risks, readiness, and release status to IT and Business leaders
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle including agile, and waterfall
- Working knowledge of DevOps / CI-CD concepts