Banking Release Lead - Migration & Cutover

Tech Mahindra; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Mahindra in Melbourne is seeking a Lead Release Manager to oversee planning and coordination of releases for a banking migration program. The role ensures a controlled transition to production with minimal disruption to customers and banking operations.

You will own the release calendar, coordinate multiple teams across application, infrastructure, testing, and data migration, and drive readiness reviews, risk management, and post-release handover to operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in release management within banking or financial services.
• Experience supporting complex migration or technology transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of release, change and cutover management.
• Strong planning, stakeholder coordination and risk management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple teams and dependencies under tight delivery timelines.

Responsibilities

• Own the release calendar, deployment plans and cross team dependencies.
• Coordinate application, infrastructure, testing, data migration and business teams.
• Confirm release readiness, including testing completion, data reconciliation, operational readiness and required approvals.
• Coordinate cutover rehearsals, deployment activities and rollback planning.
• Facilitate go/no go reviews and ensure compliance with the bank’s change management processes.
• Manage release risks, issues, stakeholder communications and escalations.
• Coordinate post release validation, hypercare and handover to operational support

Skills

Release management

Banking/FS domain

Planning

Stakeholder coordination

Risk management

Job description

Tech Mahindra in Melbourne is seeking a Lead Release Manager to oversee planning and coordination of releases for a banking migration program. The role ensures a controlled transition to production with minimal disruption to customers and banking operations.

You will own the release calendar, coordinate multiple teams across application, infrastructure, testing, and data migration, and drive readiness reviews, risk management, and post-release handover to operations.