Technical Release Manager

We are looking for a Technical Release Manager to lead and govern the release lifecycle with at least 4+ YOE. The Release Manager will act as the single owner for release progress, ensuring that every release follows a controlled, evidence-based process with clear quality, security, operational readiness, approval, and rollback check points to have a safer and faster releases with measurable engineering KPIs. As a Technical Release Manager at Oivan, you own the end-to-end execution of releases for high-impact digital services. You are the bridge between engineering, product, and delivery teams, ensuring that releases are not just planned, but correctly prepared, executed, and validated in production.
This is a hands-on, operational role. You aren't just designing strategy; you are in the driver's seat during release windows, acting as the primary point of contact to ensure that our mission-critical platforms remain stable, secure, and predictable.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and coordinate the end-to-end release calendar, release scope, dependencies, priorities, and readiness tracking.
• Coordinate release activities across Product, Development, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support teams.
• Prepare and maintain release evidence packs, including test evidence, security scan results, operational readiness, approval status, known risks, dependencies, and rollback plans.
• Track completion of quality, security, artifact, and operational readiness gates before production release.
• Monitor exceptions, risks, open issues, and go/no-go readiness status.
• Track release quality checks such as code review, regression testing, UI checks, security scans, dependency checks, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate rollback and recovery preparation with relevant technical teams.
• Maintain the release dashboard and gap register.
• Track release KPIs such as deployment frequency, lead time, hotfix frequency, bug escape rate, MTTR, and gate compliance.
• Support continuous improvement in release predictability, quality, security, and operational readiness.

Required Experience

• 3–5 years of experience in release management, DevOps coordination, DevSecOps, technical delivery management, quality assurance, or platform operations.
• Experience supporting or coordinating production releases for digital platforms.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support.
• Practical understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release gates, deployment approvals, environment promotion, and rollback planning.
• Familiarity with release governance, change control, evidence-based approvals, and production readiness.
• Basic to practical understanding of DevSecOps practices such as SAST, DAST, dependency checks, QA activities, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Experience with agile delivery, Jira, GitLab, dashboards, release calendars, and risk/dependency tracking.

Required Skills

• Strong coordination, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong communication skills in English; Arabic is a plus.
• Ability to work under pressure during production releases and incidents.
• Strong documentation and reporting discipline.
• Ability to balance delivery speed with production safety.
• Ownership mindset and strong attention to detail.
• Ability to identify incomplete readiness, highlight rollback gaps, and escalate risks clearly.

Success Measures

• Improved release predictability and readiness.
• Reduction in production surprises and emergency fixes.
• Clear visibility of release decisions, risks, and escalations.
• Increased gate compliance across quality, security, and operations.
• Improved visibility through release dashboards and evidence packs.
• Reduced hotfix frequency and bug escape rate.
• Improved rollback and recovery readiness.

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Engagement: Full-time / onsite or hybrid based on account needs
Reporting To: Service Delivery Manager / Account Leadership