Senior Release Manager

About the job

What You'll Do: • Manage release schedules, deployment plans, and production changes to ensure smooth and timely releases. • Coordinate with Engineering, QA, Product, and Architecture teams to align cross-functional project activities. • Lead release planning, environment scheduling, and deployment execution across multiple projects. • Monitor project and environment health using dashboards, metrics, and status reports. • Ensure compliance requirements (PCI/SOX) are met by verifying release gates and checklist completion. • Manage issue tracking and resolution, ensuring problems are addressed from initiation to closure. • Identify dependencies, data requirements, and integration points for upcoming releases. **What You Know:** • 8–12 years of experience in Release Management within IT environments. • Proven ability to lead high-performance cross-functional teams including Developers, Architects, QA, and Product teams. • Strong experience in release planning, coordination, and execution across multiple projects. • Ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders and business leadership. • Demonstrated leadership, mentoring, and team development capabilities. • Experience in driving delivery excellence, managing complex releases, and ensuring smooth deployment cycles. **Education:** • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Applications, or related field. **Benefits:** • In addition to competitive salaries and benefits packages, Nisum India offers its employees some unique and fun extras: • Continuous Learning - Year-round training sessions are offered as part of skill enhancement certifications sponsored by the company on an as-need basis. We support our team to excel in their field. • Parental Medical Insurance - Nisum believes our team is the heart of our business and we want to make sure to take care of the heart of theirs. We offer opt-in parental medical insurance in addition to our medical benefits. • Activities - From the Nisum Premier League's cricket tournaments to hosted Hack-a-thons, Nisum employees can participate in a variety of team-building activities such as skits and dance performance in addition to festival celebrations. • Free Meals - Free snacks and dinner are provided daily, in addition to subsidized lunch.

Requirements

• release management
• project coordination
• cross-functional team leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science
• Information Systems
• Engineering
• Computer Applications

Preferred Technologies

• release management
• project coordination
• cross-functional team leadership

Benefits

• Continuous Learning
• Parental Medical Insurance
• Activities
• Free Meals