Senior Release Manager in Zürich

• Own the Release Management discipline for up to five projects in parallel , working closely with Release Coordinators and project teams.
• Develop and maintain integrated release plans aligned with project milestones, dependencies, risk profiles and environment availability.
• Coordinate end-to-end release activities across multiple projects, teams and suppliers while ensuring alignment with enterprise Change and Release Management principles.
• Lead regular release coordination meetings to monitor readiness, resolve blockers, manage dependencies and track risks.
• Ensure appropriate end-to-end traceability across requirements, design, development, testing, defects and deployment , using tools such as JIRA and Confluence .
• Identify, monitor and coordinate cross-project dependencies and release-related risks.
• Oversee the staging and promotion of application code and configuration changes across environments in close collaboration with Environment Management.
• Monitor release health and quality through relevant KPIs, including deployment success rate, regression pass rate, defect leakage and rollback frequency .
• Provide clear and timely reporting on release status, milestones, risks, dependencies and issues to Release Management and programme leadership.
• Support release-readiness assessments ahead of key test cycles and deployments.
• Facilitate lessons-learned activities and drive continuous improvement of Release Management processes.
• Support programme-specific activities such as data refreshes and dress rehearsals , including activities outside standard working hours or at weekends when required.

Professional Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience in IT project or programme delivery , preferable within complex banking or financial‑services organisations.
• Demonstrated experience in a Release Manager or comparable Release Management role within transformation programmes.
• Strong banking‑domain experience with a sound understanding of private banking products and processes .
• Good understanding of complex system landscapes typically found within wealth management or private banking .
• Proven ability to manage releases across multiple concurrent projects and delivery streams.
• Practical experience managing integrated releases across SIT and UAT cycles within regulated environments.
• Experience working within large, complex application landscapes, ideally involving 500–1,000 applications across multiple booking centres .
• Ability to adapt Release Management processes and governance to the specific needs of a large transformation programme.

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