Enterprise Release Planning & Coordination

• Manage the enterprise release calendar across multiple product teams
• Coordinate and govern releases spanning applications, services, infrastructure, databases and cloud platforms
• Lead release readiness reviews and go/no-go decision processes
• Identify and manage cross-team dependencies, scheduling conflicts and deployment risks
• Ensure release activities align with business priorities and market commitments
• Facilitate release planning meetings and release retrospectives
• Perform other related duties as directed

Release Governance & Compliance

• Define and maintain release management standards, policies, procedures and controls
• Manage change approval processes and release governance workflows
• Ensure releases comply with security, audit, compliance and operational standards
• Maintain traceability between requirements, defects, builds, deployments and releases
• Develop release scorecards and executive reporting

DevOps & Continuous Delivery Partnership

• Partner with DevOps engineers to improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Promote modern release engineering practices including continuous delivery, progressive delivery and automated rollback strategies
• Champion the reduction of manual deployment activities through automation

Deployment Execution

• Collaborate with ICS to coordinate production deployments of all releases
• Assist with deployment command center activities during large-scale releases
• Monitor deployment progress and communicate risks early to stakeholders
• Drive issue triage and escalation during deployments
• Coordinate validation, smoke testing and post-release verification activities

Risk & Incident Management

• Identify release risks and develop mitigation plans
• Facilitate deployment war rooms during critical incidents
• Support incident response and postmortem analysis for release-related failures
• Track corrective actions to completion

Release Management

• Enterprise software release management
• Multi-team release coordination
• Change management and governance
• Release readiness and deployment planning
• Dependency management and roadmap alignment
• Agile release planning methodologies

DevOps & CI/CD

• Strong understanding of Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Git and branching strategies, as well as build and artifact management and CI/CD
• Working knowledge of infrastructure as code with Terraform and YAML-based pipelines and configuration management

Cloud Platforms

• Experience supporting releases in enterprise cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure, hybrid cloud architectures and platform services

Quality & Security

• Experience integrating release processes with test automation, quality gates, security scanning and DevSecOps controls

Leadership & Coordination

• Strong facilitation and meeting leadership skills
• Ability to coordinate large cross-functional efforts
• Exceptional stakeholder management
• Strong conflict resolution and negotiation capabilities

Communication

• Ability to communicate technical and business risks effectively
• Executive-level status reporting
• Clear written and verbal communication

Problem Solving

• Analytical and data-driven decision-making
• Ability to prioritize competing demands
• Calm and effective under pressure

Organizational Skills

• Exceptional planning and execution capabilities
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent releases
• Strong attention to detail

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in release management, DevOps, project delivery and technical program management
• Relevant Azure, CSM, ITIL Foundation certifications a strong plus

Director, Release Management & DevOps 

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Exempt

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.