Release Manager

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Technology or a related discipline
• 7+ years of experience in IT project management, release management, or deployment coordination
• Proven experience working with release or deployment processes, preferably within the banking or financial services sector
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies such as Scrum and SAFe
• Experience working with ITIL-based processes, including incident, problem, and change management
• Practical experience with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and a basic understanding of DevOps ways of working
• Ability to identify and manage risks related to release processes
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical teams and business stakeholders
• Solid technical mindset enabling effective interaction with development teams and the creation or validation of deployment runbooks
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Proactive, accountable, and adaptable approach to work
• Flexibility to support release events outside standard working hours when required

Nice to have:

• Experience working with release orchestration tools such as Helix or Digital.ai
• Previous experience working within Nordea or a similar large-scale financial organization

• Coordinate, plan, and maintain the release roadmap for one or more applications
• Manage release and deployment planning and coordinate multiple parallel releases
• Plan and oversee go-live and post-go-live activities to ensure smooth production deployments
• Coordinate and track change activities throughout the release lifecycle
• Lead release decision meetings to obtain stakeholder approval at key release milestones
• Organize and facilitate handover sessions between development and operations teams
• Improve release efficiency and quality by introducing automation, DevOps practices, and modern release orchestration techniques
• Collaborate with the central releasing team to ensure alignment with enterprise release management standards