Job Description

Job Title: IT RELEASE MANAGER

Department: Global Banking

About Business line/Function: IT Trade

Responsibilities

Position Purpose:

Direct Responsibilities
- Release Planning & Coordination
- Release Roadmap: Define the release schedule, milestones, and deadlines in alignment with business goals.
- Stakeholder Management: Coordinate between Developers, QA, Product Owners, and Infrastructure teams to ensure all dependencies are identified.
- Change Management: Manage the Change Advisory Board (CAB) process, ensuring all releases are documented, approved, and risk assessed.
- CI/CD Pipeline Oversight
- Automation Strategy: Collaborate with DevOps engineers to optimize Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Deployment Orchestration: Oversee the movement of code through various environments (Dev --> Test --> UAT --> Staging --> Production).
- Tooling Management: Manage and optimize tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket CI etc.
- Risk Management & Quality Gatekeeping
- Go/No-Go Decisions:



Lead the final review before production deployment to ensure all testing (Unit, Integration, Regression, UAT) is complete.
- Rollback Planning: Ensure every release has a verified back-out plan to restore service immediately if a failure occurs.
- Compliance: Ensure releases meet security standards, regulatory requirements, and internal audit trails.
- Monitoring & Post-Release
- Post-Implementation Review (PIR): Lead blameless post-mortems after failed releases to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
- Stability Monitoring: Track KPIs such as Deployment Frequency, Change Failure Rate, and Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).

Contributing Responsibilities
- Process Improvement & Governance

SDLC Optimization: Collaborate with Engineering leads to refine the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), reducing bottlenecks between Code Complete and Production Ready.

Standardization: Help define and maintain standardized release templates, chec

📌 IT RELEASE MANAGER (India)
🏢 Bnp Paribas Bank
📍 India