Cluster Release Manager

Project overview

Role: Cluster Release Manager

Project details

Zurich, Switzerland

Hybrid: 2 days a week

The Cluster Release Manager will play a critical role in enabling end-to-end coordination of integrated software deliveries across 25 interdependent value chains (similar to projects) within a major transformation programme

Key Responsibilities

Professional Experience

Technical Understanding

Soft Skills & Personal Attributes

Education & Certifications

• Responsible for the Release Management discipline for up to 5 projects in parallel (together with Release Coordinator)
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive release plan aligned with delivery timelines, dependencies, risk profiles, and environment availability.
• Coordinate all aspects of release management execution across multiple projects and suppliers, ensuring alignment with enterprise change management principles
• Chair regular release coordination meetings with stakeholders to track progress, resolve blockers, and manage risks.
• Ensure full traceability from requirements ? design ? development ? test cases ? defects ? deployments, leveraging tools such as JIRA, Confluence, or similar ALM platforms.
• Oversee the dependencies and risks related to releases in scope being deployed to the environments
• Oversee staging and promotion of code and configuration changes into environments collaborating closely with Environment Management.
• Monitor release health via 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.
• Worked in a similar role before
• Experience in adjusting processes to programmes need
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in IT project delivery within complex banking or financial services organisations with 500 – 1000 applications over several booking centres.
• Proven track record as a Release Manager in small- mid-sized transformation projects
• Direct experience managing multi-project release trains across SIT and UAT cycles in regulated environments.
• Familiarity with system landscape architectures commonly found in wealth management or private banking infrastructures.
• Banking experience and a profound understanding of Private banking products
• Strong grasp of SDLC methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, SAFe, hybrid models).
• Understanding of release management tools and technologies (e.g., JIRA)
• Pragmatic & solution driven mindset
• Good stakeholder engagement abilities across technical and non-technical audiences on different levels
• High emotional intelligence and diplomacy when navigating conflicting priorities in a matrix organisation.
• Results-oriented mindset with attention to detail and structured problem-solving capability.
• Ability to operate autonomously under pressure, meeting tight deadlines without compromising quality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; German or other languages beneficial.
• High willingness to contribute to the programmes success and to work on weekends
• University degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field.
• Start: ab sofort
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Zurich, Schweiz, CH