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We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.\nWho is CAT Digital? What do we do? \nBig machines require big thinking. Are you looking for your next big challenge?\nCat® Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over one million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better world.\nWorking with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. We’ve created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us.\nJob Opportunity: \nWe are seeking talented individuals to join our team to help us grow our presence, organization, culture, which will drive our digital product development efforts. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and collaborate with top professionals working on very high impact and visibility products. Don't miss this chance to join and support digital innovation for a global leader in heavy machinery!\nWhat you will do:\nAs a Lead Release Manager, you will join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization and lead the release operating model across multiple products and platforms. You will coordinate engineering, SRE, operations, quality, product, and business stakeholders to enable reliable and predictable production deployments. You will establish release governance, drive readiness decisions, reduce operational risk, and improve delivery through standardization and automation. You will also:\nLead and continuously improve the end-to-end release management process across multiple digital products and services.\nPlan and coordinate production releases, maintenance windows, hotfixes, and emergency deployments across distributed teams.\nLead release planning meetings, readiness reviews, and evidence-based go/no-go decisions.\nMaintain release calendars and coordinate dependencies across teams, applications, platforms, and environments.\nDefine release readiness, entry and exit criteria, ownership, escalation paths, and governance standards.\nIdentify technical and operational risks early and drive mitigation, rollback, recovery, and contingency plans.\nCoordinate post-release validation and ensure monitoring, support readiness, and operational documentation are in place.\nLead release retrospectives and root-cause reviews, converting lessons learned into measurable process improvements.\nDefine and track release metrics, including success rate, frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery outcomes.\nDrive automation and standardization of build, test, deployment, validation, and reporting through CI/CD practices.\nPartner with engineering and SRE teams to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and production readiness.\nCoordinate release communications and support incident response during critical deployments and production issues.\nInfluence cross-functional teams without direct authority and provide clear status, risk, dependency, and decision visibility to leadership.\nWhat you have:\nCustomer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.\nSystems Software Infrastructure: Knowledge of computer architecture and system software interaction; ability to design and build a fundamental architecture of operating systems, database management systems, communications protocols, compilers and other development tools\nCustomer Focus: Knowledge of customer needs and business priorities; ability to balance delivery outcomes with platform reliability and operational risk.\nRelease Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading complex software releases across multiple teams, services, environments, and stakeholders.\nSoftware Delivery Lifecycle: Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, cloud-native applications, automated testing, environment management, and production operations.\nCI/CD and Automation: Experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar platforms, and the ability to improve delivery automation and repeatability.\nCloud and Technical Understanding: Experience managing releases in AWS or Azure environments and working knowledge of APIs, distributed systems, containers, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.\nRisk and Decision Making: Ability to assess complex technical and operational risks, enable timely decisions, and establish mitigation, rollback, and recovery strategies.\nCross-functional Coordination: Experience working with Software Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Quality Engineering, Product Management, Security, Architecture, and Operations.\nCommunication and Influence: Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, and executive communication skills, including the ability to drive outcomes without direct authority.\nContinuous Improvement: Ability to use release outcomes, incidents, metrics, and operational feedback to improve release controls, delivery velocity, and reliability.\nTop candidates will also have:\nExperience establishing or improving release governance for large-scale eCommerce, digital platforms, or customer-facing applications.\nITIL Foundation, DevOps, cloud, or equivalent professional certification or practical experience.\nExperience supporting globally distributed engineering teams and leading major, business-critical, or cross-platform releases.\nWhat we offer:\nAt Cat Digital, we are committed to fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning, and we believe in investing in the development of our employees. As a member of our team, you will have access to a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as very competitive compensation and benefits packages, like:\nStarting from 4 403 up to 5 500 euros / month gross\nPerformance related annual cash incentive \nIndustry leading Pension plan \n5 days of extra vacation above the legislative requirement \nAttractive Life insurance \n1 volunteering day \nMultisport Card \nTake the chance to apply now for this position at Cat Digital Slovakia branch!\nContract type:\nFull-time\nPlace of work:\nKosice, Slovakia\nAdditional Information:\nPlease frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application - please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.\nCaterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.\nCaterpillar is committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. 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