Senior Director Release Management
About the role
The Senior Director Release Management at IFS will lead the modernization of the release ecosystem across Product and Technology, shifting from manual, process-heavy governance to a data-driven, automated, and platform-enabled model. The role is responsible for defining and executing long-term release strategies for various release types, embedding automated controls and compliance into engineering workflows, and building release intelligence capabilities using telemetry and AI. The position will also focus on environment strategy, engineering enablement, and developing a transformation-focused release management function. Candidates should have extensive experience in software delivery, release management, DevOps, or related fields, and a proven track record of modernizing release and operational governance models in complex environments. IFS is a global company known for its AI-driven enterprise software solutions and commitment to diversity, inclusion, and flexible work arrangements.
Must have
- 10+ years of experience in software delivery, release management, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, cloud operations, engineering program management or engineering leadership.
- Proven track record modernizing release, deployment or operational governance models across complex product, platform or service environments.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, progressive delivery, feature flags, deployment automation, policy-as-code, automated compliance, observability, SRE principles and modern engineering practices.
- Experience defining release approaches for planned, emergency, security, platform, service and out-of-band releases.
- Experience with environment strategy, shared environment governance, test environment utilization, customer onboarding readiness, environment observability and ephemeral or on-demand environments.
- Experience improving customer onboarding, production readiness, service transition or customer activation processes in a cloud, SaaS or enterprise software environment.
- Ability to use data, telemetry, dashboards, predictive insights or AI to improve release risk management, deployment reliability and engineering productivity.
- Experience building investment cases and transformation proposals to secure funding for tooling, automation, platform capability, environment improvements or operating model change.
- Strong stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to influence Product, Engineering, Platform, Security, Operations, Support and executive stakeholders.
- Proven change management capability, with experience moving teams from traditional governance models to modern, platform-enabled and evidence-based release practices.
- Strategic transformation leader who is a systems thinker, data-driven decision maker, AI-aware, security-conscious, and passionate about engineering enablement.
Technologies
- Agentic AI
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- IFS
- Observability
- SaaS
Highlights
IFS offers hybrid and flexible work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, emphasizing community, innovation, and belonging. The company is committed to sustainability and fostering an inclusive, global environment. No specific application deadline or method is mentioned.
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