Release Manager

As a recruitment company, DCG understands that every business is powered by experienced professionals. Our management style and partnership approach enable us to meet your needs and provide continuous support. Due to our ongoing growth and the large number of recruitment projects we undertake for our partners, we are currently looking for:

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate, plan, and maintain the release roadmap for one or more applications

• Manage release and deployment planning and coordinate multiple parallel releases

• Plan and oversee go-live and post-go-live activities to ensure smooth production deployments

• Coordinate and track change activities throughout the release lifecycle

• Lead release decision meetings to obtain stakeholder approval at key release milestones

• Organize and facilitate handover sessions between development and operations teams

• Improve release efficiency and quality by introducing automation, DevOps practices, and modern release orchestration techniques

• Collaborate with the central releasing team to ensure alignment with enterprise release management standards

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Technology or a related discipline

• 7+ years of experience in IT project management, release management, or deployment coordination

• Proven experience working with release or deployment processes, preferably within the banking or financial services sector

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies such as Scrum and SAFe

• Experience working with ITIL-based processes, including incident, problem, and change management

• Practical experience with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence

• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and a basic understanding of DevOps ways of working

• Ability to identify and manage risks related to release processes

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical teams and business stakeholders

• Solid technical mindset enabling effective interaction with development teams and the creation or validation of deployment runbooks

• Fluent written and spoken English

• Proactive, accountable, and adaptable approach to work

• Flexibility to support release events outside standard working hours when required

Nice to have:

• Experience working with release orchestration tools such as Helix or Digital.ai

• Previous experience working within Nordea or a similar large-scale financial organization

Offer:

• Private medical care

• Co-financing for the sports card

• Constant support of dedicated consultant

• Employee referral program