Lead Software Release Manager
Mastercard (company site, opens in a new tab)8+ yrsPuneOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 30–42 LPA
Posted on 9 Sept
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Job description
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About This Role
- Own end-to-end release planning, scheduling, and orchestration across a portfolio of 7-8 interconnected software products and platforms.
- Manage integrated release calendar balancing development milestones, testing environment availability, customer commitments, regulatory requirements, and cross-program dependencies.
- Lead release readiness reviews, dependency management, environment capacity governance, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communication to ensure successful high-quality software releases.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related discipline.
- 8+ years in software delivery, technical program management, release management, or engineering operations with at least 5 years managing enterprise-scale software releases.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile/Scrum, DevOps practices, CI/CD, and change & release management processes.
- Experience coordinating releases across multiple products and engineering teams simultaneously.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in managing complex dependency chains and cross-functional delivery programs in enterprise environments with multiple teams and products.
- Skilled in planning and balancing resources including multiple testing and production environments to optimize release frequency and stability.
- Capable of engaging with and communicating to diverse global stakeholders including engineering, product, program management, QA, and operations teams.