Location: Budapest,Budapest,Hungary
About the Role
We are looking for a highly organized, detail-oriented Release Manager to oversee planning, coordination, and successful delivery of software releases across the WCOM development organization.
This role ensures smooth, predictable, and high-quality releases by facilitating collaboration between engineering team, domain/platform teams, product owners, QA, operations, and stakeholders.
Key responsibilities - Assigned Tasks and Duties
- Lead and coordinate end-to-end release activities, including planning, scheduling, execution, validation, and post-release reviews.
- Maintain the release calendar and communicate scope, timelines, dependencies, and risks to relevant stakeholders.
- Monitor release workflow execution and intervene when blockers or escalations occur.
- Coordinate hotfixes and urgent/emergency releases.
- Continuously improve release, build, and deployment processes, with strong focus on automation.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and automated testing tooling in collaboration with relevant teams.
- Operate and improve release and rollback measurement/reporting.
- Monitor releases of dependent systems and coordinate with external/internal teams.
- Propose process improvements in connected areas (e.g., change management, incident handover).
- Facilitate release readiness meetings, go/no-go checkpoints, and retrospectives.
- Ensure release documentation is complete and auditable (notes, approvals, rollback plans, known issues).
Required Skills & Experience
- Experience in release management, software delivery, project coordination, or a similar role.
- Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices (CI/CD, trunk-based development, feature flags, progressive delivery preferred).
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage parallel workstreams and prioritize under time pressure.
- Familiarity with version control, build pipelines, release orchestration, and deployment automation.
- Strong problem-solving mindset with attention to detail and structured execution.
Accountabilities - Expected Results or Outcomes
- Own and govern the release lifecycle process end-to-end.
- Ensure reliable and repeatable release execution with clear controls.
- Implement and maintain robust CI/CD release enablement.
- Improve release predictability, lead time, and deployment quality.
- Ensure rollback readiness and minimize customer/business disruption.
Domains - Areas of Exclusive Control
- Release management process and standards.
- Release governance (calendar, milestones, go/no-go checkpoints).
- Continuous release process improvement.
- CI/CD release automation standards.
- Strategic direction of release management tooling.
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