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MuleSoft Release Manager

Purple Drive, Stamford, CT, United States


Overview:

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.

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.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of experience in IT, software delivery, DevOps, or release management.

• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Hands on experience with CI/CD pipelines and release orchestration.

• Proficiency with source code and release management tools such as Git and GitLab.

• Working knowledge of change management frameworks (e.g., ITIL).

• Proven experience coordinating releases across multiple teams and applications.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem solving skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non technical stakeholders.

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent releases in a fast paced environment.

• Knowledge of automation through scripting or coding (e.g., shell scripts, Python, etc.).

• Experience managing JIRA stories, releases, and workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with integration platforms, preferably MuleSoft.

• Familiarity with API led connectivity and frameworks, including Experience, Process, and System APIs.

• Knowledge of test automation and monitoring tools.

• Experience with JIRA automation and workflow optimization.

• Experience with tools like SOAPUI and Postman

Skills: Digital : MuleSoft

Experience Required: 6-8