Release Manager

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you'd like, where you'll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you'll be able to reimagine what's possible. Join us and help the world's leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Job Description

We're looking for a strategic and detail-driven Release Manager to lead release governance across complex, multi-vendor environments. This role is central to ensuring structured, conflict-free release cycles that align with business priorities and support enterprise transformation. You'll work across supplier teams, delivery squads, and stakeholder groups to enforce standards, coordinate schedules, and drive continuous improvement.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Define and enforce release policies across suppliers and delivery teams
• Ensure readiness criteria, risk controls, and quality benchmarks are consistently met
• Lead cross-supplier release planning to avoid conflicts and optimize sequencing
• Align release schedules with business priorities and transformation goals
• Review and approve release plans, validating scope, dependencies, and rollback strategies
• Monitor deployment activities and ensure robust validation and recovery procedures
• Facilitate post-release reviews and capture lessons learned
• Drive process maturity and uplift across release management practices
• Maintain a centralized release calendar for stakeholder transparency
• Provide timely updates and coordination across technical and business teams

Job Description - Grade Specific

• 10+ years of engineering and technology leadership experience
• Proven success in multi-vendor delivery environments
• Expertise in Agile, SAFe, and PRINCE2 methodologies
• Strong background in digital transformation, governance, and risk-based planning
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and cross-functional coordination
• A commitment to structured delivery and continuous improvement

What You'll Love About Working Here

• You will be a part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. You will love the exposure to the scale of transformation, the depth of expertise, and the opportunities for growth.
• We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people.
• At the heart of our mission is your career growth. You will have countless learning and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications crafted to support you in exploring a world of opportunities.
• We realise a Total Reward package should be more than just compensation. We offer a range of core and flexible benefits and have a Peer Recognition Portal called 'Celebrate'.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.

Ref. code

350704-en_GB

Posted on

29 Oct 2025

Experience level

Experienced Professionals

Contract type

Permanent

Location

Canberra

Business unit

Cloud Infrastructure Services

Brand

Capgemini

Professional communities

Cloud Infrastructure Management