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.
About us
Regnology is a leading international provider of innovative regulatory, risk, and supervisory technology solutions (RegTech, RiskTech, and SupTech), of AEOI and tax reporting products, as well as of services along the Regulatory Value Chain for financial services. Regnology has been a partner for banks and regulators for 25 years. Until the end of 2020, the company was part of BearingPoint group and operated under the name BearingPoint RegTech. Since the sale of the RegTech business to private equity firm Nordic Capital, the company has been independent. In June 2021, the company joined forces with Vizor Software and recently changed its name to Regnology. In total, Regnology serves more than 7,000 financial services firms with reporting solutions. At the same time, the company enables more than 50 regulators and tax authorities on five continents to collect data from 34,000 firms in 60 countries. Regnology has a total workforce of over 770 employees at 17 office locations in 12 countries.
Any questions? Feel free to get in touch:
recruiting@regnology.net
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