Technical Lead

Embitel Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,200,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Embitel Technologies in Bengaluru seeks a senior Build and Release Manager to lead and govern software build and release activities across the product lifecycle. You will coordinate between development, QA, PM, and customers to drive release readiness, manage packaging, documentation, and deployment coordination.

The role demands strong CI/CD expertise, Jira/Confluence proficiency, and robust stakeholder management to ensure compliant, timely deliveries in Agile/SAFe environments.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in build/release management.
• Strong expertise in CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Familiar with Jira, Confluence, and Git-based workflows.
• Experience with SAFe/Agile release governance and evidence collection.

Responsibilities

• Plan and align releases with PI/Sprint cadence and calendar.
• Coordinate ad-hoc build requests on customer demand.
• Ensure release readiness, packaging, and documentation.
• Coordinate release with stakeholders and teams.
• Manage risks and drive continuous improvement in release processes.

Skills

Release management

CI/CD

Jira

Confluence

Git-based version control

SRR (Software Release Readiness)

Release governance

Stakeholder management

Test automation frameworks

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

Job description

Job Title

Build and Release Management

Experience

7 to 10 years

Team

COSMOS

Job Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated Build and Release Manager to lead and govern Build and Release activities for the COSMOS Project. The Build Release Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and governing software build and release activities across the product lifecycle, ensuring timely, high-quality, and compliant deliveries aligned with Agile/SAFe PI and Sprint cadences. This role serves as the central point of coordination between development, integration, quality assurance, project management, and customer-facing teams to drive release readiness, build execution, repository synchronization, and delivery management.

The Build Release Manager oversees end-to-end release planning, build candidate creation, versioning, packaging, quality gate compliance, release documentation, and deployment coordination. The role ensures that all software releases meet defined quality standards, traceability requirements, and project governance expectations through effective evidence collection, Software Release Readiness (SRR) management, and stakeholder approvals.

The successful candidate will possess strong expertise in CI/CD pipelines, release management processes, Jira, Confluence, Git-based repository management, and software versioning practices. They will proactively manage release risks, coordinate hotfix and blocker releases, resolve build and integration issues with cross-functional teams, and continuously improve release automation, workflows, and operational efficiencies.

This position requires excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, a strong sense of urgency, and the ability to provide clear release status, risk assessments, and go/no-go recommendations while ensuring smooth collaboration between project management, development, QA, architecture, integration, and external customer teams.

Responsibilities

• Plan and align releases with PI/Sprint cadence: Plan release according to the release calendar and balance with available team capacity, align with PIs/sprints and program objectives.


• Plan ad-hoc build requests on customer demand


• Build readiness and integration


• Versioning and packaging


• Delivery execution and repository sync


• Quality gates and evidence


• Release documentation and approval


• Issue handling and communication


• Process stewardship

Required Skills

• Release Management Processes Methodologies


• CI/CD, Build Release Tooling


• Jira


• Confluence


• Git-based version control


• Software Release Readiness (SRR)


• Release Governance


• Stakeholder Management


• Test Automation Frameworks