Release Manager

2 days ago

Canberra n Capital Territory, Australia Araza Full time $80,000 - $120,000 per year

IT Release Manager
Length:
7 months + 2 x 12-month extensions

Location of work: Canberra
The IT Release Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and overseeing the deployment of software releases across multiple environments. This role ensures that releases are delivered on time, meet quality standards, and align with business and technical requirements. The Release Manager works closely with delivery teams, vendors, business stakeholders and support functions to manage dependencies, mitigate risks, and maintain release integrity.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage release schedules, calendars, and milestones across projects and platforms
  • Coordinate release activities across development, testing, and production environments
  • Ensure compliance with change management and governance frameworks
  • Facilitate release readiness reviews, and post-release retrospectives
  • Manage risks and resolve issues that may impact release scope, schedule, or quality
  • Collaborate with delivery managers, and vendors to align release plans
  • Maintain documentation of release processes, approvals, and deployment records
  • Support continuous improvement of release practices and automation tools
  • Ensure alignment with security, IDAM, and infrastructure requirements across multiple programs
  • Act as the central point of contact for release-related communications

About You

  • Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-level release management in complex ICT environments
  • Proven track record uplifting release frameworks, tools, and documentation practices.
  • Proven experience in IT release management and technical change management, or release coordination
  • Familiarity with ITIL frameworks and government security classifications
  • Experience with tools such as ServiceNow, or equivalent
  • Strong understanding of program governance, ICT delivery models (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid), and enterprise change processes
  • Proven ability to coordinate multiple teams (Dev, QA, Ops, Vendors, etc).
  • Strong stakeholder management skills to handle conflicting priorities and negotiate release schedules
  • Analytical and structured thinking with a focus on risk, assurance, and performance metrics
  • Ability to lead cross-program alignment in environments with interdependent delivery streams
  • Experience working in or alongside PMO/governance bodies for major programs
  • Understanding of public sector ICT accountability and assurance frameworks
  • Familiarity with security and operational readiness requirements in government environments
  • Experience with enterprise deployment across cloud and hybrid platforms

About Araza
Our organisation works with Australia's largest enterprise and government clients providing project and program teams and resources to ensure success. We pride ourselves on being a trusted technology partner and working collaboratively.

We're partnering with a leading Australian department to deliver high-quality projects that drive impactful results, focused on protecting national interests through intelligence, cybersecurity, and strategic operations to combat global threats.

We can talk about Araza all day but instead, here are a few links if you are interested.

Why Araza?
We are GREAT.
Our purpose is to have our teams align with our client's needs to assist them on their most interesting and innovative projects. We do this by aligning our clients and teams to our core values of
Be Great
and
Be Grateful
. This focus has helped make us an employer of choice and the consultancy of choice in the Australian market.

We are DIVERSE and INCLUSIVE.
We are recognised leader in diversity with an excellent representation of women in leadership and a team with differing backgrounds, ethnicities, experiences and abilities.

We care.
Araza is a company that cares for their people. It's that simple. You will work with truly talented switched on and collaborative team members that help each other to succeed.

We rock.

HumbleBrag is that a lot of other companies think we are great as well

Our Awards List
2023 CRN Impact Award – Emerging Innovation Winner

2020 Financial Review Fast 100

2020 Financial Times High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific

2019 Deloitte Technology Fast50 Australia

2019 Deloitte Technology Fast500 APAC

2019 CRN Fast50

2019 ARN Homegrown Service Provider Winner

2019 EY Winning Women Program Winner

2019 Cisco Diversity Initiative Award Winner

2019 Cisco Rising Star Winner

Under 30 Tech Awards Winner

2018 CRN Fast50

2018 Deloitte Technology Fast50 Australia

2018 Deloitte Technology Fast500 APAC

2018 CRN Fast50

2018 ARN Start Up Entrepreneur Winner

2018 ARN Personal Innovation Sales Excellence Winner

2018 Westpac Business of Tomorrow Winner

2018 Financial Times 1000: High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific

2017 Deloitte Technology Fast50 Australia

2017 Deloitte Technology Fast1000 Asia/Pacific

2017 CRN Fast50

2017 ARN WIICTA Entrepreneur of the Year Winner

2017 Westpac Business of Tomorrow Winner

2017 Optus myBusiness Business Leader of the Year Winner

2016 Deloitte Rising Star

2016 CRN Fast50

Next Steps
If this sounds like the opportunity you are looking for, apply now Our team would love to hear from you

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