IT Program Release Manager

Mployee.me; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Solventum in Bengaluru (Hybrid) is seeking an IT Program Release Manager to lead end-to-end release planning, governance, and execution across multiple teams. The role focuses on coordinating calendars, dependencies, risks, and readiness activities to ensure smooth production deployments.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, drive release readiness, and push for improvements in release processes. A PMP/ITIL/SAFe or equivalent certification is preferred, along with strong analytical and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field with 7–10 years of IT release management, project management, or related roles.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the integrated IT release calendar with visibility to planned production releases, milestones, dependencies, and freeze periods.
• Drive release readiness and governance with checkpoints to ensure correct code and scope promotion to production.
• Facilitate release readiness discussions with clear visibility into scope, readiness, risks, issues, and actions required before deployment.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and release sequencing, identifying conflicts and risks and driving resolution.
• Provide release visibility and stakeholder communications on upcoming releases, readiness, schedule changes, risks, and decisions.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen release management practices and improve release planning, governance, and ways of working.

Skills

Release management

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Engineering/Business

Master’s degree in IT/Engineering/CS

Tools

Smartsheet

Jira

Power BI

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Job Description

At Solventum, we improve lives by helping healthcare professionals do their best work. Join a team using innovation and insight to make a real impact on the future of healthcare. All roles listed are with Solventum, and we’re committed to protecting your personal information—learn more in our Privacy Policy

IT Program Release Manager

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

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 clear 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

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

• 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)

Domestic Travel: May include up to 20%

Supporting Your Well-being

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.

Diversity & Inclusion

(*) We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, civil status, disability, family status, or membership of the travelling community.

Solventum is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in our recruitment process. Applicants must remain alert to fraudulent job postings and recruitment schemes that falsely claim to represent Solventum and seek to exploit job seekers.