Position: MuleSoft Release Manager

Location: Stamford, CT- Remote

Job Summary

The Release Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering software releases across multiple environments in a controlled, predictable, and efficient manner. This role ensures that releases meet quality standards, align with business priorities, and are delivered on schedule with minimal risk. The Release Manager serves as a key liaison between Development, QA, Operations, DevOps, and business stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accountability throughout the release lifecycle.

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Key Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and coordinate software releases across development, test, staging, and production environments.

• Own and maintain the release calendar, ensuring alignment with business priorities and avoiding conflicts across teams and applications.

• Coordinate release activities with DevOps, Development, QA, Infrastructure, and Client stakeholders.

• Ensure all release artifacts—including builds, release notes, deployment scripts, and rollback plans—are complete, reviewed, and approved prior to deployment.

• Enforce release governance, change management processes, and compliance standards in accordance with organizational policies.

• Identify, assess, and mitigate release risks; manage cross team dependencies and resolve scheduling or delivery conflicts.

• Lead release planning, readiness, and playbook meetings; provide clear and timely release status communications to stakeholders.

• Support incident management activities related to releases and lead post deployment issue analysis and resolution.

• Drive continuous improvement of release management processes, automation, and tooling to increase efficiency and reliability.

• Maintain accurate documentation, including runbooks, release procedures, and deployment standards.