Release Manager

We are seeking a Release Manager to own the end-to-end release lifecycle for cloud and data-platform services. The role will coordinate application, infrastructure, database, and Databricks releases across development, testing, and production environments, ensuring that 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. Candidates with a strong Databricks administration background and working Azure knowledge may also be considered.

Required Skills:
• 7 years of relevant experience in release management, DevOps, cloud operations, or data-platform support
• Hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Azure Databricks environments
• Understanding of SQL databases, schema or code deployments, backup, validation, and rollback practices
• Experience coordinating CI/CD pipelines, source-control branches, build artifacts, and environment promotions
• Ability to assess release risks, dependencies, conflicts, outages, and business impact
• Strong communication, documentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to coordinate distributed teams and support releases aligned to CET business hours

Nice to Have Skills:
• Experience with SSIS, Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI, or other Azure data services
• Familiarity with service-management, and ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, or similar platforms
• Experience supporting enterprise data, analytics, or business-intelligence platforms

Roles & 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.