Strategic Release Coordinator (Hybrid) - Agile & SDLC

Motion Recruitment; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Release Coordinator for a long-term contract (hybrid). You will own end-to-end release readiness, coordinate planning, testing, approvals and deployment with Product Owners and stakeholders.

This role requires strong SDLC and release management experience, excellent communication, and the ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Strong SDLC and release management capabilities.
• Ability to manage delivery amid ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Experience with end-to-end delivery and release coordination.

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 and AGILE/JIRA daily standups and story tracking

Skills

SDLC knowledge

Release management

Ambiguity handling

Communication

Problem solving

End-to-end delivery

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Motion Recruitment in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Release Coordinator for a long-term contract (hybrid). You will own end-to-end release readiness, coordinate planning, testing, approvals and deployment with Product Owners and stakeholders.

This role requires strong SDLC and release management experience, excellent communication, and the ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced financial services environment.