Contract-Release Engineer (Banking/ Fintech)
Description
Contract Opportunity
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end release management activities for MLS and related Compliance Technology applications, coordinating the promotion of software changes across development, testing, pre-production and production environments.
- Plan, schedule and coordinate application deployments, ensuring releases are executed in accordance with approved change management, governance and operational procedures.
- Manage release calendars, deployment pipelines and implementation schedules, ensuring alignment between project timelines, business priorities and production release windows.
- Coordinate deployment readiness activities, including validation of release scope, implementation plans, rollback procedures, environment readiness, dependency assessments and stakeholder approvals.
- Develop, maintain and continuously improve CI/CD deployment processes, automation scripts and release orchestration workflows to enhance deployment efficiency, consistency and reliability.
- Work closely with the application development team and vendor to ensure successful promotion of code, configuration and database changes across environments.
- Review and validate deployment packages, release artefacts, configuration changes and implementation documentation to ensure completeness, accuracy and compliance with enterprise standards.
- Manage production implementations, providing deployment oversight and ensuring successful release execution, post-deployment validation and operational handover.
- Perform release-related risk assessments, identify deployment dependencies and potential implementation conflicts.
- Facilitate release governance processes, including Change Request (CRQ)reviews.
- Monitor deployment activities and production releases, ensuring issues are identified, escalated and resolved promptly to minimize business impact.
- Perform release-impact analysis and root cause investigations for failed deployments, release incidents and production issues, driving corrective and preventive actions.
- Maintain deployment runbooks, implementation procedures, rollback plans, release documentation and operational support guides to ensure repeatability and audit compliance.
- Support disaster recovery exercises, environment refreshes, application cutovers, and major production events requiring coordinated release execution.
Responsibilities
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience in system integration, system implementation, application deployment, and production support.
• Strong experience inUnix/Linux administration, Shell Scripting and SQL development.
• Strong experience in middleware installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting, including Apache, JBoss and database platforms.
• Proven experience inend-to-end application deployment, environment setup, release management and production implementation.
• Experience in designing and implementing system integrations across web, application, middleware,database and external systems.
• Strong understanding of network, firewall, load balancer, DNS and security concepts, including troubleshooting connectivity and performance issues.
• Experience in preparing and maintaining technical artefacts, including system integration diagrams, deployment diagrams, network diagrams and data flow diagrams.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile delivery methodology and change management processes.
• Experience managing and coordinating SIT, UAT, Mock Run and Production Verification activities.
• Proven ability to perform root cause analysis and drive resolution of complex production incidents.
• Experience working withcross-functional teams including Architecture, Infrastructure, Security,Network, Application Development and Business stakeholders.
• Strong vendor management, stakeholder management and project coordination skills.
• Excellent analytical,problem-solving, communication and documentation skills.
• Self-motivated, highly driven and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Compliance Technology /AML Platforms
• System Integration,Implementation & Technical Delivery
• Big Data, Analytics& Data Processing Technologies