We are seeking an experienced Release Management Lead with strong expertise in enterprise release planning, deployment coordination, configuration management, and post-release reviews. The candidate will manage end-to-end release lifecycles and coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure smooth, controlled, and successful production deployments.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Manage the complete release lifecycle, including planning, scheduling, coordination, execution, and post-release reviews.
- Drive major releases, planned deployments, off-cadence releases, and emergency changes.
- Conduct release readiness meetings with Development, QA, Infrastructure, Operations, and SRE teams.
- Validate release approvals, dependencies, risks, and rollback plans.
- Facilitate Go/No-Go decisions and ensure release entry and exit criteria are met.
- Coordinate deployment activities across multiple applications and environments.
- Track release status, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Conduct post-release reviews and drive continuous improvement in release processes.
Required Skills
- Strong experience in Release Management and Configuration Management.
- End-to-end release planning, scheduling, and execution.
- Major, planned, off-cadence, and emergency releases.
- Release readiness assessments and deployment coordination.
- Go/No-Go decision management.
- Post-release reviews and continuous improvement.
- Risk, dependency, and rollback planning.