Release Manager

State Street; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K retirement savings plan with company match

Basic life, medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off including vacation and sick leave

Access to Employee Assistance Program

Annual performance-based awards

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Release Manager for their Investment Accounting platform based in Burlington, MA. This role bridges engineering and SaaS operations to ensure high-quality, seamless releases across a cloud‑native platform. Successful candidates should have strong knowledge of Azure, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices.

Your responsibilities will include managing the release lifecycle, supporting deployment activities, and collaborating with teams for operational excellence. Join us to help shape the future of our investment solutions.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with event-driven systems and distributed data platforms.
• Understanding of secure configuration management (e.g., Azure Key Vault).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines driven by PR-based workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the release lifecycle including build schedules and deployment execution.
• Support end-to-end deployment and testing activities across environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to streamline deployment processes.

Skills

Release management principles

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD practices

Kafka

Tools

Snowflake

Redis

Grafana

Kibana

Job description

We are seeking a Release Manager to support the Investment Accounting platform. This role bridges engineering and SaaS operations ensuring seamless, high-quality releases across a cloud‑native Investment Accounting platform. The ideal candidate brings hands‑on familiarity with Azure‑based microservices, Kubernetes deployments, Kafka, and modern CI/CD practices. The Release Manager will drive operational excellence through strong release governance, deployment automation, and robust runbook development.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the release lifecycle including build schedules, packaging, deployment execution, and validation.
• Support E2E deployment and testing activities across environments, ensuring quality, stability and deployment readiness of releases.
• Act as a liaison with SaaS Operations teams for release planning, deployment readiness, and operational handover.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to streamline deployment processes and improve release efficiency.
• Ensure proper management of configuration and environment dependencies during releases.
• Support runbook creation, updates, and operational readiness for production support.
• Coordinate across teams for go/no‑go evaluation and tollgates.
• Post release monitoring to accept feedback, triage deployment issues and continued process optimization.

Technical Environment / Qualifications

• Knowledge of release management principles, SDLC, version control and software deployment.
• Working knowledge of modern cloud‑native architectures, including Azure, Kubernetes (containerized microservices), and ARGOCD‑based deployments.
• Familiarity with event‑driven systems (Confluent Kafka) and distributed data platforms.
• Experience with datastores such as Snowflake, Rocks DB, and Redis caches.
• Understanding of secure configuration management (e.g., Azure Key Vault).
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tools such as Kibana and Grafana.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines driven by PR‑based workflows.

Salary Range

$80,000 - $140,000 Annual. The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Benefits

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long‑term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid‑time off including vacation, sick leave, short‑term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance‑based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax‑advantaged savings plans. For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.

About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success. We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work‑life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

Job Application Disclosure

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Job ID: R-791621