Software Release Manager

In this role you will own the end-to-end software release lifecycle across multiple applications and environments, ensuring releases are planned, governed and deployed safely with minimal business disruption. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, QA, Infrastructure and Support to manage release readiness, deployment coordination, and risk. The role focuses on improving CI/CD, deployment automation, and release reliability, while maintaining clear communication with technical and business stakeholders. This is an opportunity to shape release processes, drive continuous improvement, and scale delivery across teams.

• Own and manage the software release calendar and deployment schedule
• Coordinate releases across production, staging, UAT and other environments
• Manage release readiness reviews, approvals, quality gates, and Go-Live activities
• Identify and manage release risks, dependencies, blockers, rollback plans, and recovery activities
• Maintain release documentation, change approvals, deployment records, and audit trails
• Coordinate technical teams during complex or high-risk deployments
• Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps to improve CI/CD, deployment automation, and release reliability
• Communicate release schedules, risks, impacts and outcomes to technical and business stakeholders
• Monitor release performance and drive continuous improvement across processes and tooling

• Proven experience in Software Release Management or similar delivery role
• Experience managing releases across multiple applications, teams and environments
• Strong understanding of SDLC, CI/CD, DevOps, governance and change management
• Experience with production deployments, hotfixes, rollback plans and risk management
• Knowledge of build/deployment pipelines and release automation
• Excellent planning, organisation, stakeholder management and communication
• Ability to coordinate multiple teams under high-pressure deployments
• Focus on quality, operational stability, automation and continuous improvement

• stakeholder management
• clear communication
• under pressure decision-making
• CI/CD and deployment tooling
• release governance and change management
• release automation