Release Coordinator

Motion Recruitment; Charlotte, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment in Charlotte, NC, is seeking a Release Coordinator for a long-term contract with a major financial services client. The role focuses on end-to-end release readiness, planning, testing, approvals, and deployment activities, with on-call support to ensure stable deployments.

You will partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to align scope and priorities, drive improvements to delivery flow, and coordinate weekly and expedited releases while balancing competing priorities.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own delivery readiness and ensure backlog items are prioritized and viable.
• Coordinate end-to-end release readiness, testing, approvals, and deployment.
• Partner with Product Owners to align scope, sequencing, and priorities.
• Drive continuous improvement to reduce manual effort and improve flow.
• Provide release support coverage, including on-call for deployments.
• Plan and deploy weekly and on-demand releases on a rotation.
• Participate in patching, cloning, upgrades, and AGILE/JIRA standups.

Skills

SDLC & release management

Stakeholder communication

Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban)

End-to-end delivery coordination

Release readiness & execution

Problem solving & decision making

Managing delivery risks

On-call release support

Banking/Financial services domain

Job description

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Release Coordinator in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid). Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially,

Contract Duration: 12+ Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (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.

Desired Skills

• Proven ability to manage delivery risk, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations in fast paced environments.
• 5+ years facilitating Agile delivery using Scrum and Kanban in complex, cross functional environments.
• Experience owning delivery forecasts and release plans, not just facilitating team ceremonies.
• Experience in Banking or Financial Services.
• Proven familiarity with regulated or risk sensitive environments.
• Ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity, competing priorities, and delivery pressure.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and servant leadership skills.

What You Will Be Doing

• 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" (expedited / emergency) releases on a rotational basis.
• Participate in additional release management activities: Patching, Cloning, Upgrades, Key Notifications (gathering information, drafting and distribution) and AGILE/JIRA daily standups and story tracking