Senior Release Manager

We are seeking a Senior Release Manager to join the team responsible for enabling to deliver world-class products and experiences to its customers. This role involves collaborating across portfolio roadmaps, programs, and value delivery to ensure seamless execution of releases. As a Senior Release Manager, you will proactively partner with teams across program management, product, engineering, release engineering, and quality to execute high-quality releases while driving continuous improvement, process efficiencies, and exceptional outcomes.

Job Responsibilities: -

• Release Framework & Governance: Lead a global release framework with a continuous delivery mindset across teams and geographies.
• Change Management: Manage all change activities from planning through testing and deployment.
• Risk Management: Develop risk mitigation and contingency plans for releases of varying complexities.
• Operational Readiness: Partner with support and operations teams to ensure readiness for production changes.
• Communication: Clearly and effectively convey updates and technical issues across all organizational levels.
• Release Cadence: Define and drive a global release cadence, ensuring timely and structured delivery.
• Metrics & Improvements: Define and track key metrics to evaluate release effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Synchronize scope, cadence, and delivery requirements across product, program, quality, and engineering teams.
• Scheduling Decisions: Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to make informed release scheduling decisions.
• Meetings & Retrospectives: Facilitate go/no-go, checkpoint, and retrospective meetings to ensure continuous improvement.
• Planning Sessions: Participate in capability standups and PI planning to scope and plan upcoming releases.

Qualification: -

• Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field (or 2 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree).
• Strong understanding of release processes, agile methodologies, and technical frameworks (Agile/Lean, SAFe, ITIL).
• Experience with development and deployment automation tools in the software lifecycle.

Must have skills: -

• Proficiency in CI/CD tools and processes, with a focus on improving integration and release operations.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and ServiceNow.
• Experience with mobile app deployments and app store processes (Apple App Store and Google Play).
• Expertise in Change Management and Release Frameworks.
• Strong communication skills to articulate complex issues effectively to diverse audiences.
• Experience in eCommerce platforms, mobile apps, and operational readiness for complex features.

About Brickred Systems:

Brickred Systems is a global leader in next-generation technology, consulting, and business process service companies. We enable clients to navigate their digital transformation. Brickred Systems delivers a range of consulting services to our clients across multiple industries around the world. Our practices employ highly skilled and experienced individuals with a client-centric passion for innovation and delivery excellence.

With ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certification and over a decade of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we harness the power of cognitive computing hyper-automation, robotics, cloud, analytics, and emerging technologies to help our clients adapt to the digital world and make them successful. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.