Delivery Release Manager

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Infrastructure

Columbus, Ohio

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Role Summary

We are hiring two hands-on Delivery Release Managers who will sit within Technology and own the mechanics of delivery across product teams and co-supplier application groups. This is not an administrative PM role. You will create real visibility into where delivery stands, what’s at risk, and how we get to a path-to-green — then drive teams to execute. You will also help transition from manual PowerPoint/Excel status to live dashboards (e.g., Jira, Octane) and ensure every release is coordinated, auditable, and production-ready under big-bank governance.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own cross-team coordination across internal product teams and co-supplier apps; keep dependencies aligned through design, build, test, and release.
  • Run the release calendar end-to-end: environments, cutover readiness, change control, and production checkpoints.
  • Increase delivery visibility: build/curate dashboards today they are using one page PowerPoints. It would be nice to have some experience in any the following to help better drive easier visibility specifically in a Jira Dashboard but not required (Jira/Octane/ServiceNow/Clarity) to replace manual one-pagers; communicate current truth vs. stale status.
  • Risk & path-to-green: detect drift early, quantify impact, and drive remediation plans with clear owners, dates, and evidence.
  • Testing coordination (not execution): align test timelines across applications; track script counts, weekly execution, defect trends, and readiness signals.
  • Governance & compliance: follow and enforce SDLC, change, and audit controls; ensure a clean evidence trail (SOX/operational risk).
  • Stakeholder leadership: influence engineers, test leads, product owners, architects; escalate decisively when commitments slip.
  • Continuously improve: evolve the operating model, reporting, and ways of working to reduce friction and increase velocity.

Must-Have Qualifications

  • 7+ years in Release Management / Delivery Coordination for complex, multi-system programs for financial services.
  • Proven ability to connect technical dots, surface risk early, and drive remediation to closure.
  • Strong experience with SDLC governance or similar change control in regulated environments (audit-ready releases).
  • Tooling fluency for delivery insight: Today they use PowerPoint and Jira (and/or Rally), dashboards, status automation; ability to turn data into clear, consumable views.
  • Excellent communication, escalation judgment, and executive-ready status reporting.
  • Ownership mindset leads proactively without waiting for direction.

Nice-to-Have

  • Banking experience; core/mainframe + SaaS integrations; vendor programs (e.g., Zafin).
  • Familiarity with Micro Focus/ALM Octane for test case management; awareness of Tricentis Tosca context.
  • Background in test coordination (without being a test executor).
Heitmeyer Consulting is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to minority status, gender, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
 

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