Description
Plan, coordinate, and manage software releases across development, testing, and production environments. Lead and guide cross-functional teams through release planning, build, validation, and deployment. Serve as liaison between product, engineering, operations, security, and business to align scope, risks, and timing. Build release calendars and assess business impacts for each release. Monitor readiness and execution to meet windows, quality standards, compliance, and cost targets.
- • Perform release risk assessments and define mitigation, rollback, and contingency plans.
- • Publish release packages and notes, ensuring adherence to quality gates and compliance.
- • Track team readiness and process adherence; document lessons learned and improvements.
- • Collaborate with developers, QA, and operations to identify and resolve release blockers.
- • Prioritize and sequence releases based on customer impact, business value, and dependencies.
- • Schedule and facilitate release planning, CAB, go/no-go, and postmortem meetings.
- • Direct cross-functional activities during cutover using defined runbooks and checklists.
- • Track release milestones, code freezes, approvals, and deployment deliverables.
- • Negotiate release windows, resources, and environment availability with stakeholders and vendors.
- • Review and approve changes to release scope, content, or schedule.
- • Evaluate and coordinate vendors, tools, or consultants supporting CI/CD and deployment.
- • Create and execute a release communication plan for stakeholders and end users.
- • Identify and secure additional release engineering, tooling, or environment resources.
- • Develop deployment and cutover plans with impact, downtime, and backout analysis.
- • Coordinate assignment of release coordinators, change owners, and approvers.
- • Plan and manage budgets for release tooling, environments, and change processes.
- • Define and assign release roles, responsibilities, approvals, and escalation paths.
- • Prepare and distribute release status reports, calendars, and performance metrics.
- • Manage release execution to ensure adherence to schedule, scope, and quality standards.
- • Develop and maintain release plans covering scope, dependencies, environments, schedules, and approvals.
- • Build and manage release runbooks, checklists, and gates across the delivery pipeline.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
