Release Manager

DCG Poland; Gdynia; On-site; PLN 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Co-financing for the sports card

Dedicated consultant support

Job summary

DCG Poland in Gdynia, Poland, is seeking a Release Manager to coordinate release roadmaps and manage deployments across multiple applications. The role requires 5+ years of IT project management experience, strong stakeholder skills, and hands-on experience with Jira/Confluence and DevOps practices.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure on-time delivery, maintain release quality, and lead orchestration efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT or related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in IT project management and planning.
• Proven experience in release or deployment management activities.
• Strong networking, interpersonal, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Analytical mindset with strong coordination and planning abilities.
• Experience creating and validating deployment runbooks with technical teams.
• Experience with ITIL processes and change management.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, plan and maintain the release roadmap for one or more applications.
• Plan and coordinate multiple parallel releases and deployments.
• Plan release go-live and post-go-live activities.
• Plan, coordinate and track change activities throughout the release process.
• Lead release decision meetings and secure stakeholder approval for release milestones.
• Plan handover sessions between development and operations teams.
• Collaborate with Release Managers, Test Managers, Product Owners and Operations teams to ensure successful deliveries.
• Improve release quality and efficiency through automation, release orchestration and DevOps practices.

Skills

IT project management

Release management

Stakeholder management

Agile/Scrum/SAFe

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT

Tools

Jira

Confluence

CI/CD

Job description

As a recruitment company, DCG understands that every business is powered by experienced professionals. Our management style and partnership approach enable us to meet your needs and provide continuous support. Due to our ongoing growth and the large number of recruitment projects we undertake for our partners, we are currently looking for:

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate, plan and maintain the release roadmap for one or more applications
• Plan and coordinate multiple parallel releases and deployments
• Plan release go-live and post-go-live activities
• Plan, coordinate and track change activities throughout the release process
• Lead release decision meetings and secure stakeholder approval for release milestones
• Plan and facilitate handover sessions between development and operations teams
• Collaborate with Release Managers, Test Managers, Product Owners, Execution Leads, Scrum Masters and Operations teams to ensure successful deliveries
• Improve release quality and efficiency through automation, release orchestration and DevOps practices

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT or a related discipline
• Minimum 5 years of experience in IT project management and planning
• Proven experience in release or deployment management activities
• Strong networking, interpersonal, communication and stakeholder management skills
• Analytical mindset with strong coordination and planning abilities
• Ability to pay attention to details while maintaining an overall view of deliveries and dependencies
• Accountability, proactivity and ability to adapt quickly to change
• Practical understanding of Agile, Scrum and SAFe methodologies
• Highly proficient spoken and written English
• Technical mindset with the ability to communicate effectively with development teams
• Experience creating and validating deployment runbooks in collaboration with technical teams
• Experience working with incident, problem and change management processes and tools under the ITIL framework
• Hands-on experience with Jira and ConfluenceExperience working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices
• Basic understanding of DevOps ways of working
• Ability to work with release orchestration tools and automated release pipelines
• Flexibility to work paid evening and weekend hours during implementation activities

Nice to have:

• Experience in the banking sector
• Experience with incident, problem and change management processes on the client side

Offer:

• Private medical care
• Co-financing for the sports card
• Constant support of dedicated consultant