Senior Release Manager

What you'll do

The Senior Release Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and continuously improving software release processes across multiple teams and systems. The role operates with a high degree of autonomy, handles complex delivery situations, and balances multiple technical and organizational alternatives. The position contributes directly to delivery reliability, compliance, and quality, while also mentoring junior professionals and supporting continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.

Key Responsibilities Release Management & Delivery

• Plan, coordinate, execute, and monitor software releases in alignment with established release and change management processes.
• Manage complex release scenarios involving multiple systems, teams, and dependencies.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate release risks; drive resolution of release-related issues and conflicts.
• Ensure releases meet quality, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Act as a key interface between development, QA, operations, and other stakeholders during release cycles.

Process Management & Continuous Improvement

• Implement, monitor, and improve release, development, and quality assurance processes.
• Drive automation of release-related activities where feasible to improve reliability and speed.
• Analyze performance metrics, incidents, and retrospectives to propose and implement process improvements of low to medium complexity.
• Ensure consistent application of standards, tools, and best practices across teams.

Software Development Support

• Guide and mentor development teams on release readiness, DevOps practices, and process compliance.
• Support teams in improving working methods, delivery predictability, and cross-team collaboration.
• Promote Agile and DevOps principles in day-to-day release operations.
• Act as a trusted advisor for release-related decisions at team and program level.

Complexity & Autonomy

• Addresses situations of higher complexity with multiple viable approaches that must be evaluated.
• Operates independently in most situations, requiring minimal guidance.
• Makes informed trade-offs between delivery speed, quality, risk, and compliance.
• Influences practices beyond a single team or project.

Why we should decide on you

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• 3+ years’ experience in Release Management, Process Management, or a closely related software delivery role.
• Proven experience handling medium-to-high complexity release scenarios.
• Experience working across multiple teams in Agile or hybrid delivery environments.

Software Development & Process Knowledge

• Extensive practical experience with Agile software development methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC), requirements engineering, quality assurance, and certification schemes.
• Relevant certifications such as PSM, PSPO, PSPM, ITIL, or similar are desirable.

Tools & Technical Understanding

• Good knowledge of standard software development and release tools (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, version control, issue tracking).
• Confident handling of data structures relevant to release and process reporting.
• Basic understanding of system architecture and environment dependencies.

Project, Change & Agile Management

• Project management experience as an active participant in small to medium-sized projects.
• Solid theoretical knowledge of change management and agile working methods.
• Practical experience applying agile tools and techniques in a release or delivery context.

Core Competencies & Soft Skills Reliability

• Consistently meets or exceeds commitments and deadlines. Demonstrates ownership, accountability, and proactive problem-solving.

Driving Quality

• Strong commitment to high-quality delivery; actively seeks feedback and translates it into actionable improvements.

Embracing Diversity

• Thrives in diverse and international environments; collaborates effectively across cultures and perspectives.

Innovating Courageously

• Drives continuous improvement, automation, and adapts quickly to changing circumstances.

Boosting Teamwork

• Promotes collaboration, cross-team communication, and shared ownership of outcomes.

Why you should decide on us

• Let’s grow together, join a market-leading SaaS company – our agile character and culture of innovation enables you to design our future.
• We provide you with the opportunity to take on responsibility and participate in international projects. 
• In addition to our buddy program, we offer numerous individual and comprehensive training opportunities, allowing you to explore various technical and functional areas. 
• Our internal mobility initiative encourages colleagues to transfer cross-functionally to gain experience and promotes knowledge sharing.
• We are proud of our positive working atmosphere characterized by a supportive team across various locations and countries and transparent communication across all levels. 
• Together we're better - meet your colleagues at our numerous team events.

Über uns

Regnology ist ein international führender Anbieter für innovative Lösungen im Bereich Regulatory, Risk und Supervisory Technology (RegTech/RiskTech/SupTech), für AEOI und Steuerreporting sowie für Services für das aufsichtsrechtliche Meldewesen entlang der regulatorischen Wertschöpfungskette. Regnology ist seit 25 Jahren ein Partner für Banken und Regulierungsbehörden. Bis Ende 2020 war das Unternehmen Teil der BearingPoint-Gruppe und firmierte unter dem Namen BearingPoint RegTech. Seit dem Verkauf des RegTech-Geschäfts an das Private-Equity-Unternehmen Nordic Capital ist das Unternehmen unabhängig. Im Juni 2021 hat sich das Unternehmen mit Vizor Software zusammengeschlossen und kürzlich den Namen in Regnology geändert. Insgesamt nutzen mehr als 7.000 Firmen, darunter Banken, Versicherungen und Finanzdienstleister, Reporting-Lösungen von Regnology. Gleichzeitig setzen mehr als 50 Aufsichtsbehörden und Steuerbehörden auf fünf Kontinenten die SupTech-Lösungen des Unternehmens ein, um Daten von 34.000 Firmen in 60 Ländern zu erfassen und zu analysieren. Regnology beschäftigt insgesamt über 770 Mitarbeiter an 17 Standorten in 12 Ländern.

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