Release Manager

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TheRelease Manager owns the planning coordination governance and continuous improvement of releases across Danahers Enterprise Data Platform including Snowflake AzureMatilliondbt Airflow GitHub and related data services. This role orchestrates releases across platform data engineering operations security andOpCoteams ensuring changes are tested approved traceable communicated and deployed with minimal business disruption. The Release Manager strengthens release discipline through automation standard controls metrics and pragmatic delivery practices while supporting both planned releases and urgent production changes.

This position reports to the Director - Data Platform and Operations and is part of the Enterprise Data Engineering teamlocatedinthe BangaloreIDC office. The specific working arrangement will be confirmed by the interview team.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead end-to-end release management and governance for the data platform including release planning scope schedules dependencies readiness reviews go/no-go decisions change approvals production readiness checks deployments validation rollback hypercare closure activities and post-release reviews with clear decision tracking and accountability.

  - Coordinate cross-functional delivery and stakeholder alignment by partnering with platform engineering data engineering DataOps architecture security service management vendors and OpCo teams to manage dependencies mitigate risks represent releases at Change Approval Boards ensure adherence to DHR standard processes and align release trains with enterprise platform priorities data product delivery compliance commitments and OpCo onboarding.

  - Establish and continuously improve release processes standards and automation by defining and maintaining release calendars checklists entry and exit criteria deployment and rollback plans runbooks evidence requirements and release reporting while advancing GitHub Actions CI/CD GitOps automated testing environment promotion and deployment controls.

  - Ensure change risk compliance and production stability management by enforcing change-management segregation-of-duties security audit compliance and emergency change requirements; coordinating release windows production validation incident handoffs rollback decisions and release communications to minimize failed changes and service disruptions.

  - Drive release transparency performance measurement and continuous improvement through stakeholder communications reporting of release status milestones dependencies risks and decisions and by leveraging release outcomes defects incidents lead time deployment frequency rollback trends and lessons learned to improve delivery reliability efficiency and operational excellence.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• 7 years of progressive experience in release management change management platform operations software delivery or related technology disciplines including responsibility for coordinating enterprise production releases across complex technology environments.

  - Proven experience managing releases across cloud data or software platforms working across multiple teams environments dependencies and stakeholder groups while balancing competing priorities and ensuring successful delivery outcomes.

  - Strong technical understanding of modern data platform technologies including Snowflake Azure Matillion dbt and Apache Airflow with the ability to assess deployment dependencies operational impacts and production risks.

  - Hands-on knowledge of modern software delivery and change-control practices including GitHub Enterprise or comparable source-control platforms CI/CD methodologies branching and promotion strategies automated testing deployment approvals rollback procedures and IT service management/change processes using ServiceNow or equivalent tools including standard normal and emergency changes.

  - Exceptional planning facilitation documentation risk management and communication skills with the ability to coordinate multiple releases translate complex technical release information into concise status readiness risk and decision communications for both engineering teams and executive leadership; Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Business or a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.

Travel Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 10% domestically and occasionally internationally for team meetings planning workshops vendor engagements andOpCocollaboration.

It would be a plus if you alsopossesspreviousexperience in:

• Release management for regulated or audit-sensitive platforms under SOX SOC 1/2GxP privacy or similar control frameworks.

• GitOps reusable GitHub Actions workflows automated quality gates artifact versioning and progressive delivery practices.

• Data platform observability incident management problem management disaster recovery and operational readiness.

• Coordinating releases in a multi-OpCo multi-tenant or federated enterprise environment.

• Certifications such as ITIL 4SAFe Scrum.