Hybrid Release Coordinator for Financial Services

Kelly Services; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a Release Coordinator in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid) for a long-term contract. You will own release readiness, coordinate end-to-end release activities, and align scope with delivery capacity and timelines.

You will support planning, execution, testing, approvals, and deployment, while driving continuous improvement and reducing manual effort. Prior experience in banking/financial services is a plus.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of SDLC and release management practices.
• Ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity, competing priorities, and delivery pressure.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and servant leadership skills.
• Demonstrated strength in problem solving, conflict resolution, and decision making.
• Experience supporting end to end delivery, including planning, execution, release coordination, and post release validation.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery readiness and execution discipline by ensuring backlog items entering sprints are fully prioritized, refined, dependency cleared, and technically viable.
• Coordinate end to end release readiness and execution, ensuring testing, validation, approvals, and deployment activities are planned, visible, and completed without last minute escalation.
• Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to align scope, sequencing, and priorities with delivery capacity and release timelines.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to reduce manual effort, improve flow efficiency, and strengthen delivery and release practices.
• Provide release support coverage as needed, including participation in planned release activities and limited on call support to ensure stable deployments and rapid issue triage.
• Plan, manage, coordinate, communicate and deploy weekly and "on demand" releases on a rotational basis.
• Participate in additional release management activities: Patching, Cloning, Upgrades, Key Notifications and AGILE/JIRA daily standups and story tracking

Skills

SDLC

Release management

Ambiguity handling

Communication facilitation

Problem solving

End-to-end delivery

Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban)

Delivery forecasting

Banking/Financial Services domain

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners is seeking a Release Coordinator in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid) for a long-term contract. You will own release readiness, coordinate end-to-end release activities, and align scope with delivery capacity and timelines.

You will support planning, execution, testing, approvals, and deployment, while driving continuous improvement and reducing manual effort. Prior experience in banking/financial services is a plus.