Release Manager

(m/f/d)

Freelance/temporary employment for a project

Zurich

Start date: asap

Reference number: 898927/1

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the Release Management discipline for up to 5 projects in parallel, together with a Release Coordinator
• Develop and maintain comprehensive release plans aligned with delivery timelines, dependencies, risks and environment availability
• Coordinate all aspects of release management execution across multiple projects and suppliers
• Chair regular release coordination meetings to track progress, resolve blockers and manage risks
• Ensure full traceability from requirements, design and development through testing, defects and deployments
• Oversee dependencies and risks related to releases being deployed to the environments
• Oversee staging and promotion of code and configuration changes into environments in close collaboration with Environment Management
• Monitor release health through relevant KPIs such as defect leakage, regression pass rate, rollback frequency and deployment success rates
• Prepare reporting on release status, risks and key milestones for Release Management Leadership
• Support readiness assessments prior to each test cycle and contribute to lessons learned after each release
• Support specific release activities such as Data Refresh or Dress Rehearsal activities, which may require additional hours or weekend work

Profile

• Previous experience in a comparable Release Management role

• Experience in adapting processes to programme needs

• Solid experience in IT project delivery within complex banking or financial services organisations

• Experience working in complex IT landscapes with approximately 500-1,000 applications across several booking centres

• Proven track record as a Release Manager within small to mid-sized transformation projects

• Direct experience managing multi-project releases across SIT and UAT cycles in regulated environments

• Familiarity with system landscape architectures commonly found in Wealth Management or Private Banking

• Banking experience and a profound understanding of Private Banking products

• Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, SAFe and hybrid models

• Understanding of release management tools and technologies such as JIRA

• Fluency in English

Benefits

• Working for a Large Swiss Bank
• Working on the most important strategic Project of the Bank
• Possibility of extension