IT & Software

Software Release Manager

Spectrum IT Recruitment

Poole · Dorset · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will own and coordinate the end-to-end software release lifecycle across multiple applications and environments. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to plan, govern, and deploy releases safely with minimal business disruption. The position emphasizes release readiness, risk management, and continuous improvement of release processes and tooling. You will influence stakeholders and drive reliable, scalable deployment practices in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Responsibilities
  • Own 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 release processes and tooling
Key requirements
  • 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, release governance, and change management
  • Experience with production deployments, hotfixes, rollback plans, and risk management
  • Strong understanding of build and deployment pipelines and release automation
  • Excellent planning, organisation, stakeholder management, and communication skills
  • Ability to coordinate multiple teams and remain effective during high-pressure deployments
  • Focus on quality, operational stability, automation, and continuous improvement
  • planning and organisation
  • stakeholder management
  • clear communication
  • SDLC
  • CI/CD
  • DevOps

Reference: WJ-747_30366486

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