Software Release Manager

Spectrum IT Recruitment; Poole; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment in Poole, Dorset, seeks an experienced Software Release Manager to own and coordinate the end-to-end release lifecycle across multiple applications and environments. You will ensure releases are planned, governed, and deployed safely with minimal business disruption.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, QA, Infrastructure, and Support to manage release readiness, risk, communication, and continuous improvement, while driving automation and reliability across

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Software Release Management across multiple applications and environments.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, CI/CD, DevOps, change governance.
• Experience with production deployments, rollback plans, and release risk management.
• Excellent planning, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the software release calendar and deployment schedule.
• Coordinate releases across production, staging, UAT, and other environments.
• Manage release readiness reviews, approvals, quality gates, and Go-Live activities.
• Identify and manage release risks, dependencies, blockers, rollback plans, and recovery activities.
• Maintain release documentation, change approvals, deployment records, and audit trails.
• Coordinate technical teams during complex or high-risk deployments.
• Work with Engineering and DevOps teams to improve CI/CD, deployment automation, and release reliability.
• Communicate release schedules, risks, impacts, and outcomes to technical and business stakeholders.
• Monitor release performance and drive continuous improvement across release processes and tooling.

Skills

Release management

SDLC understanding

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Stakeholder management

Planning and organisation

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Software Release Manager to join an excellent clients established team in Poole, Dorset. The Software Release Manager will own and coordinate the end-to-end software release lifecycle across multiple applications and environments.

The role is responsible for ensuring releases are planned, governed, and deployed safely and efficiently, with minimal disruption to the business. Working across Engineering, Product, QA, Infrastructure, and Support, this person will manage release readiness, deployment coordination, risk, communication, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the software release calendar and deployment schedule.
• Coordinate releases across production, staging, UAT, and other environments.
• Manage release readiness reviews, approvals, quality gates, and Go-Live activities.
• Identify and manage release risks, dependencies, blockers, rollback plans, and recovery activities.
• Maintain release documentation, change approvals, deployment records, and audit trails.
• Coordinate technical teams during complex or high-risk deployments.
• Work with Engineering and DevOps teams to improve CI/CD, deployment automation, and release reliability.
• Communicate release schedules, risks, impacts, and outcomes to technical and business stakeholders.
• Monitor release performance and drive continuous improvement across release processes and tooling.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in Software Release Management, Deployment Management, or a similar software delivery role.
• Experience managing releases across multiple applications, teams, and environments.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC, CI/CD, DevOps, release governance, and change management.
• Experience with production deployments, hotfixes, rollback plans, and release risk management.
• Strong understanding of build and deployment pipelines and release automation.
• Excellent planning, organisation, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple teams and remain effective during high-pressure deployments.
• Strong focus on quality, operational stability, automation, and continuous improvement.

Desirable

• Experience with modern CI/CD and deployment tooling.
• Exposure to cloud, infrastructure, or containerised environments.
• Experience working within Agile engineering teams.
• Knowledge of release KPIs such as deployment frequency, lead time, success rates, and release-related incidents.