Platform Release Manager (Remote)

Capgemini Engineering; Lisboa; Híbrido; EUR 50.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health and life insurance

Hybrid work model

Referral program with bonuses

Training & certifications

Great office locations

Descripción de la vacante

Capgemini Engineering is seeking an experienced Platform Release Manager to lead cross‑functional releases across a complex tech stack. You will coordinate calendars, dependencies, deployments, and governance to ensure production‑ready releases with minimal risk.

The role requires SAFe RTE experience, strong DevOps knowledge, and excellent stakeholder management. A hybrid work model and opportunities for career growth are offered across national and international projects.

Formación

• 5+ years in Release Management, Project Management, Program Management, Release Train Engineering, or delivery leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• Strong knowledge of planning, risk, governance, and dependency management.

Responsabilidades

• Own and maintain the integrated release calendar for feature releases, maintenance releases, hotfixes, and deployments.
• Coordinate dependencies across applications, data products, integrations, pipelines, and platform services.
• Manage release scope, ensuring only approved and validated changes are included.
• Oversee release readiness activities and progression through development, testing, validation, and production approval stages.
• Facilitate go/no-go decisions by consolidating testing results, deployment readiness, and risk assessments.
• Lead deployment planning, execution coordination, rollback preparedness, and incident escalation as needed.
• Ensure release artifacts, versioning, and production deployments are fully traceable and governed.
• Coordinate multi-site rollouts and adoption of approved baselines.
• Communicate release status, risks, timelines, deployment outcomes, and post-release learnings to stakeholders.

Conocimientos

Release management

Program management

SAFe / RTE

DevOps / CI‑CD

Stakeholder management

Cross‑functional coordination

Educación

Bachelor's degree (CS/IT/Engineering)

Herramientas

Cognite

Snowflake

SnapLogic

HighByte

MQTT

Unified Namespace (UNS)

Descripción del empleo

Capgemini Engineering

At Capgemini Engineering, the world leader in engineering services, we bring together a global team of engineers, scientists, and architects to help the world’s most innovative companies unleash their potential. From autonomous cars to life-saving robots, our digital and software technology experts think outside the box as they provide unique R&D and engineering services across all industries. Join us for a career full of opportunities. Where can you make a difference. Where no two days are the same.

Your Role

We are seeking an experienced Platform Release Manager to lead the planning, coordination, governance, and delivery of releases across a complex technology landscape. You will serve as the central coordination point for cross-functional teams, ensuring that applications, data platforms, integrations, and infrastructure components are released in a controlled, compatible, and production-ready manner.

This role requires strong stakeholder management, release governance expertise, and a solid understanding of modern DevOps practices. You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Testing, DevOps, Support, and Business teams to ensure successful deployments while minimizing risk and maintaining operational stability.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the integrated release calendar for feature releases, maintenance releases, hotfixes, and deployment rollouts.
• Coordinate dependencies across applications, data products, integrations, pipelines, and platform services.
• Manage release scope, ensuring only approved and validated changes are included.
• Oversee release readiness activities and drive progression through development, testing, validation, and production approval stages.
• Facilitate go/no-go decisions by consolidating testing results, deployment readiness, business approvals, and risk assessments.
• Lead deployment planning, execution coordination, rollback preparedness, and incident escalation when required.
• Ensure release artifacts, versioning, and production deployments are fully traceable and governed.
• Coordinate multi-site rollouts and ensure consistent adoption of approved release baselines.
• Communicate release status, risks, timelines, deployment outcomes, and post-release learnings to stakeholders.

Your Profile

• 5+ years of experience in Release Management, Project Management, Program Management, Release Train Engineering, or a related delivery leadership role.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of project and program management principles, including planning, risk management, stakeholder management, dependency management, and governance.
• Experience managing complex releases across multiple teams, applications, data platforms, integrations, and infrastructure environments.
• Working knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies, with experience in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) highly preferred.
• Experience serving as a Release Train Engineer (RTE) or working closely within a SAFe Agile Release Train environment.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practices, including branching strategies, version control, release tagging, artifact management, and environment promotion.
• Experience with release planning, deployment governance, production readiness assessments, rollback strategies, and change management processes.
• Knowledge of software testing practices, including integration testing, regression testing, System Acceptance Testing (SAT), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge readiness assessments and drive informed release decisions.
• Proven ability to manage risks, resolve cross-team dependencies, and coordinate successful production releases in complex enterprise environments.

Preferred Experience

• SAFe® Release Train Engineer (RTE), SAFe Agilist, PMP, Prince2, Scrum Master, or equivalent certification.
• Experience working in regulated, highly governed, or business-critical environments.
• Familiarity with industrial data platforms and technologies such as Cognite, Snowflake, SnapLogic, HighByte, MQTT, and Unified Namespace (UNS) architectures.

What You'll Love About Working Here

• Join a multicultural and inclusive team environment.
• Enjoy a supportive atmosphere promoting work-life balance.
• Hybrid work.
• Your career growth is central to our mission. Our array of career growth programs and diverse professionals are crafted to support you in exploring a world of opportunities.
• Access valuable training and certifications in cutting-edge technologies.
• Engage in exciting national and international projects.
• Health and life insurance.
• Referral program with bonuses for talent recommendations.
• Great office locations.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is the business transformation partner for enterprises in the age of AI. We help organizations imagine and build an intelligent, sustainable future, combining AI, technology and human ingenuity to transform how they operate, innovate and grow. With unique end-to-end capabilities spanning strategy, technology, engineering and intelligent operations, we bring together deep industry expertise and market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data to turn ambition into measurable business outcomes at scale. Supported by a robust ecosystem of partners and nearly 60 years of expertise, Capgemini is a responsible and diverse global organization of over 410,000 team members in more than 50 countries.