Job highlights

- In addition to the above requirements,the following are also required: .

- Experience supporting enterprise technology releases across multiple applications,platforms,infrastructure components,or IT functions.

IT Program Release Manager

Job Summary

Release management provides the planning, coordination, and governance needed to manage technology releases in a structured and predictable way, aligning timelines, dependencies, stakeholders, risks, and readiness activities through key milestones such as cutover and deployment.

As an IT Program Release Manager, you will make an impact by:

- Owning and maintaining the integrated IT release calendar, providing visibility to planned production releases, key milestones, dependencies, potential conflicts, and freeze periods.

- Driving release readiness and governance, establishing appropriate checkpoints and controls to help ensure the correct, approved code and release scope are promoted to production.

- Facilitating release readiness and go/no-go discussions, ensuring decision-makers have clear visibility into release scope, readiness, outstanding risks, issues, dependencies, approvals, and actions required before deployment.

- Coordinating cross-team dependencies and release sequencing, proactively identifying potential conflicts, technology dependencies, resource constraints, and execution risks and driving them toward resolution.

- Providing transparent release visibility and communications to IT stakeholders and leadership, including upcoming releases, readiness, schedule changes, risks, issues, decisions, and escalation needs.





- Identifying opportunities to strengthen release management practices by recommending practical improvements to release planning, governance, controls, and ways of working.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires at a minimum the following qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline and 7-10 years of experience in IT release management, project management, IT consulting, PMO, IT transformation, or related information technology roles

OR

- Master's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline and 5+ years of experience in IT release management, project management, IT consulting, PMO, IT transformation, or related information technology roles

In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required:

- Demonstrated experience in enterprise IT release management involving multiple technology teams, applications, platforms, or stakeholder groups.

- Robust experience with release planning and coordination, including release calendars, dependencies, readiness tracking, release freeze periods, and stakeholder communications.

- Demonstrated ability to coordinate across multiple technology teams,



manage interdependencies and competing priorities, and drive delivery issues toward resolution.

- Project management experience with knowledge of planning, scope, schedules, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and delivery outcomes.

- Hands-on experience with project, release, reporting, and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, Power BI, and Microsoft Office Suite.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

- Relevant professional certification such as PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, SAFe, ITIL, Lean Six Sigma, or a related project, release, or delivery management certification.

- Experience supporting enterprise technology releases across multiple applications, platforms, infrastructure components, or IT functions.

- Experience with production release governance, deployment readiness, release communications, and post-release reviews.

- Ability to engage and influence IT and business stakeholders, facilitate structured discussions, create alignment, and support timely decisions without direct authority.

- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risks, evaluate trade-offs, anticipate downstream impacts, and recommend practical actions.

Work location

- Bengaluru (Hybrid)

Travel

- Domestic Travel: May include up to 20%

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📌 IT Program Release Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Solventum
📍 Bengaluru