Job Description

Job Title: Release Manager
Location: 100% Remote (EST or CST candidates only)
Long term contract
Looking for W2 Candidates Only. No C2C

Job Summary :

• We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Release Manager to plan, coordinate, and oversee software releases across multiple environments and workstreams.
• The ideal candidate combines strong release governance, hands-on technical understanding, and exceptional communication skills to ensure smooth, reliable deployments across the organization.
• This role plays a key part in driving maturity in release governance, ensuring compliance with change management processes, CAB approvals, and executive communication standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Release Planning & Coordination

• Plan, manage, and coordinate releases across Development, QA, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
• Work with Delivery and Project Managers to align dependencies across multiple workstreams (PowerApps, Integration Services, Reporting & Analytics, Data Engineering).
• Maintain a live dependency map and conduct readiness reviews to identify and mitigate risks.
• Maintain a unified release calendar, identifying schedule conflicts and dependencies.
• Ensure environment readiness and enforce pre-release quality gates.
• Track, document, and communicate release activities, milestones, and timelines.
• Lead post-release reviews to capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement.

Tooling & Automation

• Oversee and optimize CI/CD pipelines for efficient, repeatable deployments.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to embed observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Support the transition from Azure DevOps to Jira, ensuring workflow/process alignment.

Dependency & Risk Management

• Align cross-team dependencies across all workstreams.
• Facilitate readiness reviews and maintain dependency tracking to mitigate release risks.

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as the central coordination point for release communication from engineering teams to IT leadership.
• Deliver structured, timely updates during readiness, go-live, and post-release validation.
• Provide concise executive summaries, dashboards, and reports.
• Facilitate release bridge calls and post-implementation reviews.

Continuous Improvement

• Track and report release metrics (success rates, rollback frequency, automation coverage).
• Identify process inefficiencies and drive improvements in automation and governance.
• Contribute to runbooks, release templates, and Confluence documentation.

Required Skills:

• Strong continuous improvement mindset.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, c Actions) and Jira.
• Experience with Safe or multi-squad agile environments.
• Working knowledge of SQL, deployment scripting, and data integrity validation.
• Strong understanding of Git and branching strategies.
• Proven experience supporting CAB meetings and release governance.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical details for business stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, QA, and operations teams.

Best Regards:

Tina
Phone: +1-469-899-9341
Email: tina@technipros.com

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