Software Build & Release Manager

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue SS&C is headquartered in Windsor Connecticut and has 27000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20000 financial services and healthcare organizations from the worlds largest companies to small and mid-market firms rely on SS&C for expertise scale and technology.

Job Description

Job Title

Software Build & Release Manager

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Software Build and Release Manager to own design and continuously improve our build integration and release processes. This role is responsible for ensuring reliable repeatable and auditable software releases across multiple environments while enabling development teams to move quickly and safely.

The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with GitHub modern CI/CD pipelines and release automation and acts as a bridge between development QA security and operations.

Key Responsibilities

Build & Release Management

• Own the end-to-end build integration and release lifecycle across development QA UAT and production environments.

• Design and enforce branching tagging and versioning strategies in GitHub to support parallel development hotfixes and stable releases.

• Coordinate and execute scheduled and on-demand releases with a strong focus on quality traceability and rollback readiness.

• Manage release calendars deployment sequencing and change control activities.

GitHub & Source Control Leadership

• Serve as the GitHub subject-matter expert including:

  • Repository design and governance

  • Branch protection rules and merge strategies (PRs reviews approvals)

  • GitHub Actions workflows for build test and deployment automation

  • Code signing artifact versioning and release tagging

• Define and enforce source control best practices across teams.

• Support migration efforts from legacy source control systems to GitHub where applicable.

CI/CD & Automation

• Build maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and related tools.

• Integrate automated testing (unit integration regression) static analysis and security scanning into pipelines.

• Ensure pipelines are performant reliable and scalable across multiple teams and applications.

• Manage build artifacts and dependencies using artifact repositories (e.g. Nexus Artifactory).

Release Governance & Quality

• Establish and maintain release standards documentation and audit trails.

• Partner with QA and Security teams to ensure releases meet quality compliance and security requirements.

• Implement release metrics (build success rate deployment frequency MTTR failure rate) and drive continuous improvement.

• Lead root-cause analysis for build or release failures and implement preventative improvements.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Work closely with Agile/PODS teams to align release processes with sprint and delivery goals.

• Train and mentor developers on GitHub workflows branching strategies and CI/CD best practices.

• Act as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership on build release and DevOps strategy.

Required Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in build release or DevOps engineering roles.

• Deep hands-on experience with GitHub including GitHub Actions pull request workflows and repository governance.

• Strong expertise in Git branching strategies (GitFlow trunk-based development or hybrid models).

• Proven experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines in enterprise environments.

• Strong understanding of software versioning dependency management and release automation.

• Experience supporting parallel release tracks (e.g. stable vs. advanced releases).

• Excellent communication and coordination skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Experience with legacy-to-modern source control or CI/CD migrations.

• Familiarity with containerization and deployment platforms (Docker Kubernetes).

• Experience in regulated or audit-heavy environments (SOX SOC financial services).

• Scripting experience (PowerShell Bash Python).

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP).

What Success Looks Like

• Releases are predictable repeatable and low-risk.

• Developers are confident and efficient using GitHub workflows.

• Build and release issues are detected early and resolved quickly.

• CI/CD pipelines are automated well-documented and continuously improving.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies Inc. or any of its affiliated companies the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race color religious creed gender age marital status sexual orientation national origin disability veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.