Enterprise Release & Compliance Lead (Hybrid)

KellyMitchell Group; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

ESOP

401K

Job summary

KellyMitchell is seeking an experienced Release Manager to support strategic cybersecurity and infrastructure initiatives within a highly regulated financial services environment. You will plan, coordinate, and govern release activities across multiple workstreams to ensure secure, compliant, and predictable deployments.

This contract role, based in Chicago with a hybrid work model, requires strong enterprise release management experience and cross-functional coordination across technology,

Qualifications

• Experience managing enterprise technology releases in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of release management, change management, governance, and risk controls.
• Experience coordinating releases across multiple teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent releases while maintaining visibility and control.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute integrated release plans across multiple cybersecurity and infrastructure initiatives
• Coordinate release activities through planning, build, testing, validation, deployment, and post-release support phases
• Manage release calendars, dependencies, and scheduling conflicts across concurrent projects
• Partner with Change Management teams to ensure releases meet governance, audit, and compliance standards
• Identify, assess, and mitigate release risks, including environment readiness, dependency management, and rollback planning
• Prepare and maintain release documentation, deployment plans, release notes, and back-out procedures
• Serve as the central coordination point between security, infrastructure, application, and project teams
• Facilitate stakeholder communications before, during, and after production releases
• Support governance reviews and communicate release readiness, risks, and go/no-go decisions

Skills

Release management

Communication

Stakeholder management

Regulatory/compliance knowledge

Risk management

Cross-team coordination

Governance

Tools

ServiceNow

Azure DevOps (ADO)

Jira

Job description

KellyMitchell is seeking an experienced Release Manager to support strategic cybersecurity and infrastructure initiatives within a highly regulated financial services environment. You will plan, coordinate, and govern release activities across multiple workstreams to ensure secure, compliant, and predictable deployments.

This contract role, based in Chicago with a hybrid work model, requires strong enterprise release management experience and cross-functional coordination across technology,