Role- Enterprise Release Engineering Architect

Job Type- Full Time

Locations - Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai

About the Role

We are looking for a highly experienced Enterprise Release Engineering Architect to establish and lead our enterprise-wide Release Management capability. This is a strategic leadership role responsible for defining the release management vision, operating model, governance, standards, and tooling, while simultaneously building and leading a high-performing execution team.

The successful candidate will transform release management into a predictable, automated, risk-driven capability that enables frequent, reliable, and business-aligned software delivery across multiple technology platforms, applications, cloud environments, and engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Release Strategy

- Define and implement the enterprise Release Management strategy aligned with business and technology objectives.
- Establish standardized release governance across all application portfolios.
- Design release policies, standards, controls, workflows, and approval mechanisms.
- Develop enterprise release calendars and planning frameworks.
- Take a holistic approach of how environments, DevSecOps pipelines, and project releases come together to deliver event-free releases for customers
- Establish KPIs, SLAs, maturity metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Build the Release Management Function

- Work closely with customers and represent customers internally in leading the Release Management Agenda
- Be the SPOC for the customers for anything that is associated with Release Management, DevSecOps and Environment Management
- Design the organizational structure for the Enterprise Release Management Office.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a team of Release Managers, Release Coordinators, and Deployment Engineers.
- Define operating procedures, roles, responsibilities, and RACI models.
- Create a scalable service model supporting multiple business units and delivery teams.
- Establish engagement models with Development, QA, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Change Management, and Operations teams.

Enterprise Release Execution

- Lead planning and execution of enterprise-wide releases.




- Coordinate cross-functional release activities across multiple applications and environments.
- Manage release readiness assessments.
- Conduct Go/No-Go governance meetings.
- Ensure deployment checklists and implementation plans are completed.
- Coordinate rollback planning and production readiness activities.
- Drive release retrospectives and continuous improvement.

Governance & Risk Management

- Establish release governance forums and executive reporting.
- Identify release risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
- Ensure compliance with audit, security, regulatory, and organizational standards.
- Manage release conflicts across programs and portfolios.
- Own release quality metrics and operational stability after deployments.

DevSecOps & Automation

- Drive release automation initiatives across CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to improve deployment maturity.
- Standardize deployment patterns and release templates.
- Promote Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, feature flags, automated testing, and progressive deployment practices.
- Reduce manual intervention in release processes.

Stakeholder Management

Partner closely with

- Engineering Leadership
- Product Management
- Enterprise Architecture
- Infrastructure & Cloud Teams
- DevSecOps
- Information Security
- Testing & Quality Engineering
- Service Management
- Business Leadership

Required Experience

- 18+ years of experience in Enterprise IT.
- Minimum 5 years leading enterprise Release Management.
- Experience establishing Release Management functions from the ground up.
- Proven experience leading releases across large-scale, multi-application environments.
- Strong consulting skills and executive presence
- Able to present solutions to complex enterprise challenges at CXO level




- Strong experience managing geographically distributed engineering teams.
- Experience with Agile, DevOps, and traditional delivery models.
- Experience in regulated industries such as Banking, Financial Services or Insurance is highly desirable.

Technical Expertise

Strong understanding of

- Enterprise Release Management
- DevSecOps practices
- CI/CD pipelines
- Change Management
- Workplace Management
- Configuration Management
- Version Control (Git)
- Release Automation
- Deployment Orchestration
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP)
- Kubernetes and container platforms
- Feature Flags
- Blue-Green and Canary deployments
- Rollback strategies
- ServiceNow Change Management
- Jira and Agile delivery tools
- Artifact repositories (Nexus, Artifactory)
- Observability platforms
- Enterprise Architecture principles

Leadership Competencies

- Strategic thinking with the ability to define enterprise operating models.
- Proven experience building and scaling high-performing teams.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent planning, governance, and decision-making abilities.
- Ability to influence without direct authority.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Calm and decisive during critical production events.

Success Measures Within the first 3 months, the successful candidate will:

- Establish an enterprise-wide Release Management framework.
- Build and operationalize the Enterprise Release Management Office.
- Standardize release governance across all technology platforms.
- Increase deployment success rates while reducing release-related incidents.
- Improve release predictability and deployment frequency.
- Reduce manual release effort through automation.
- Deliver executive dashboards for release health, risks, and KPIs.
- Drive measurable improvements in release maturity across s the organization.

Preferred Certifications

- ITIL 4 Foundation / Managing Professional
- SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE)
- PMP or PRINCE2
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification
- Azure DevOps, AWS, or OCI certifications (preferred)
- DevOps Institute certifications (preferred)

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