About This Role
This Release Manager role involves owning the end-to-end release lifecycle for cloud and data-platform services. The successful candidate will coordinate application, infrastructure, database, and Databricks releases across development, testing, and production environments, ensuring each deployment is planned, approved, validated, communicated, and completed with minimal business disruption. The ideal candidate combines strong release governance with practical knowledge of Azure, Databricks, databases, and CI/CD.
Responsibilities
- Plan release scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, implementation steps, validation, and rollback activities
- Facilitate release-readiness reviews and confirm approvals, test evidence, operational readiness, and support coverage before deployment
- Coordinate development, QA, DevOps, platform, database, support, and business teams throughout the release lifecycle
- Manage change records and ensure compliance with governance, security, segregation-of-duties, and audit requirements
- Monitor deployments, lead command-center communication, track issues, and coordinate rollback or recovery when required
- Publish release plans, status updates, deployment outcomes, known issues, and post-release summaries to stakeholders
- Track release KPIs, recurring failure patterns, and improvement actions; facilitate post-implementation reviews for significant releases
- Standardize release checklists, templates, automation, and documentation to improve deployment quality and predictability
Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience
- 3-5 years of relevant experience in release management, release engineering, DevOps, or software delivery
- Understanding of the end-to-end release lifecycle, including planning, readiness reviews, approvals, deployment, validation, and post-release review
- Practical experience working with CI/CD pipelines, source control, build artifacts, and promoting changes across environments
- Ability to follow and maintain deployment plans and runbooks, and to support hands-on release execution
- Working knowledge of cloud or data-platform environments; able to coordinate with technical teams on application, infrastructure, or database changes
- Ability to identify release risks and dependencies, support issue triage, and coordinate rollback or recovery when needed
- Clear communication and documentation skills, with the ability to coordinate distributed teams and support releases aligned to CET business hours
- Release planning, scheduling, coordination, and deployment governance
- Microsoft Azure cloud services and Azure Databricks administration
- SQL and database operations, deployment, and troubleshooting
- CI/CD pipelines using GitHub
