Senior Release Coordinator - Agile/SDLC, Hybrid Dallas

Motion Recruitment; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Release Management Coordinator position at The Financial Services Company in Dallas, TX (Hybrid) focuses on coordinating complex release activities, ensuring testing, approvals and deployments are planned and executed without last-minute escalations. You will work with Product Owners and stakeholders to align scope and timelines.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of enterprise release coordination, strong SDLC knowledge, and proficiency with Jira/Confluence and Microsoft Office, coupled with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Agile/Scrum Release Coordination experience preferably in large enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of SDLC processes, especially within regulated organizations.
• Proven experience working with Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Solid background in Agile methodologies.
• High attention to detail with the ability to follow established processes and playbooks.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present to large groups.
• Process driven and detail oriented
• Strong organizational and documentation skills
• Analytical problem solving abilities
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast paced environment

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" (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

Skills

Agile Release Coordination

SDLC Knowledge

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Office

Documentation

Communication

Multitasking

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Release Management Coordinator position at The Financial Services Company in Dallas, TX (Hybrid) focuses on coordinating complex release activities, ensuring testing, approvals and deployments are planned and executed without last-minute escalations. You will work with Product Owners and stakeholders to align scope and timelines.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of enterprise release coordination, strong SDLC knowledge, and proficiency with Jira/Confluence and Microsoft Office, coupled with