Release Manager

4 days ago

Canberra n Capital Territory, Australia Bridge IT Engineering Full time $120,000 - $140,000 per year
  • Federal Government Role
  • 12 months initial contract with up to 2x 12 month potential extensions
  • Location: ACT
  • Hybrid work arrangements
  • Australian Citizenship with Baseline clearance is required

Bridge IT Engineering
is seeking an
IT Release Manager
for an opportunity with a federal government department with offices in the
ACT.
The role 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.

Key Duties and 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.

Criteria

  • 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.

Your ICT Recruiter for this role

Byron Dale

*Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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