Lead Release Manager

Lead Release Manager

Millennium is seeking a Lead Release Manager to join a dynamic global team. This Lead Release Manager will be responsible for supporting the Release Control process for Fixed Income and Commodities Technology.

In this role, you work closely with business stakeholders and across developer teams within the Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit, Rates, and FX business at Millennium to ensure release stability.

Responsibilities

Proactive release management:

Spearhead robust release process with proper auditing, testing, and documentation

Gatekeep releases and coordinate cross-team releases to maximize production stability

Validate regression and integration testing results for staged releases

Evaluate upcoming releases for upstream and downstream impact

Create formal rollback plans for new releases

Coordinate cross-team dependencies for forthcoming release

Define and prioritize business objectives in the BOW and upcoming release roadmap

Set and meet delivery timelines

Track progress towards high-level goals, and identify and resolve blockers

Communicate release contents effectively with stakeholders, including Portfolio Managers

Incident management and analysis

Actively participate in triaging ongoing incidents

Provide advice and guidance for root cause analysis

Utilize observability tools to quickly zero in on active issue

According to RCA, improve regression and integration test suites to prevent reoccurrence

Drive weekly meetings to evaluate problems, RCAs, and test-gap

Stay in touch with external teams to ensure that upstream issues are resolved

High level system design

Work on high-level system design and flow

Standardize and enforce cross-stack observability, including traces, metrics, alerts and logging

Develop deep understanding of system flow and microservice interaction

Iterate over Release Control process to ensure maximum production stability and stakeholder buy-in

Quality Assurance

Supervise QA Engineers in building and maintaining regression and integration testing suites

Ensure integration environment remains stable and healthy across applications

Review test-reports for staged releases

Provide go / no go guidance for sensitive releases based on test coverage, dependencies, and upstream / downstream effects

Required qualifications

8+ years of hands-on experience in large-scale distributed system, complex software design, high scalability and availability, optimization, observability

Excellent communication and prioritization skills

Strong analytical problem solving and decision-making skills

Profound understanding of design patterns, data structures and algorithms

Proven skills in performance tuning, monitoring and measurin

Experience with automation and building robust processes / pipelines

A degree in Computer Science (preferred) or related engineering field

Preferred qualifications

Working with cloud technologies, Kubernetes and Istio a strong plus

Experience with related open source technologies such as gRPC, Protobuf, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, Postgres etc. is a plus

Experience with Java is a strong plus

Functional experience with JavaScript, Typescript, Python, Angular, Node, or React is a plus

Experience with Playwright, Selenium, or Ranorex for end-to-end testing is a plus

Familiarity with Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub

Experience “owning” release process for an application or organization is a strong plus