Release Management Associate Director
- Location
- Jersey City
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Compensation
- $95k – $180k
About this role
Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.
The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.
Pay and Benefits:
- Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
- Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
- Pension / Retirement benefits
- Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
- DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).
The Release Manager within the MRMO is responsible for planning, coordinating, governing, and facilitating technology releases across IT FinSight. This role ensures releases are delivered in a predictable, controlled, and low-risk manner by driving end-to-end release readiness, managing dependencies, coordinating stakeholders, and providing leadership visibility throughout the release lifecycle.
The Release Manager serves as the central point of coordination between Business, Product, Development, Infrastructure, Change Management, and Support teams to promote production stability and successful release execution.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage integrated release plans across multiple applications and delivery teams.
- Coordinate release schedules, deployment activities, milestones, and dependencies.
- Facilitate release readiness reviews and governance checkpoints.
- Ensure release activities are aligned with enterprise standards and change management requirements.
- Drive production readiness reviews and release governance processes.
- Identify, track, and escalate release risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
- Ensure all required approvals, validations, and sign-offs are completed prior to implementation.
- Support release-related metrics, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Act as the primary liaison across Business, Product, Development, Infrastructure, EAS, SRE, UAT, and IVT teams.
- Provide executive-level communications and status reporting to leadership.
- Facilitate cross-functional discussions to resolve release blockers and competing priorities.
- Coordinate implementation activities, deployment plans, rollback strategies, and validation activities.
- Ensure support teams are prepared for implementation and post-release activities.
- Lead release execution governance and hypercare tracking.
- Monitor release outcomes and drive lessons learned reviews.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
Talents Needed for Success:
- Experience in Release Management, Program Management, Delivery Management, or IT Governance.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, Change Management, and Production Support.
- Experience coordinating large-scale, cross-functional technology releases.
- Strong communication and executive stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with JIRA, ServiceNow, PPM, ALM, dashboards, and governance reporting.
DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.
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Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC’s business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC’s mission to support the financial markets.
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