Release Engineer

Experience: 10+ Years
Role: Release Engineer

Key Skills:
•       Compliance Technology / AML Platforms

•       System Integration, Implementation & Technical Delivery

•      Big Data, Analytics& Data Processing Technologies

Key Responsibilities:

·  Lead end-to-end release management activities for MLS and related Compliance Technology applications, coordinating the promotion of software changes across development, testing, pre-production and production environments.

·  Plan, schedule and coordinate application deployments, ensuring releases are executed in accordance with approved change management, governance and operational procedures.

·  Manage release calendars, deployment pipelines and implementation schedules, ensuring alignment between project timelines, business priorities and production release windows.

·  Coordinate deployment readiness activities, including validation of release scope, implementation plans, rollback procedures, environment readiness, dependency assessments and stakeholder approvals.

·  Develop, maintain and continuously improve CI/CD deployment processes, automation scripts and release orchestration workflows to enhance deployment efficiency, consistency and reliability.

·  Work closely with application development team and vendor to ensure successful promotion of code, configuration and database changes across environments.

·  Review and validate deployment packages, release artefacts, configuration changes and implementation documentation to ensure completeness, accuracy and compliance with enterprise standards.

·  Manage production implementations, providing deployment oversight and ensuring successful release execution, post-deployment validation and operational handover.

·  Perform release-related risk assessments, identify deployment dependencies and potential implementation conflicts.

·  Facilitate release governance processes, including Change Request (CRQ) reviews.

·  Monitor deployment activities and production releases, ensuring issues are identified, escalated and resolved promptly to minimize business impact.

·  Perform release-impact analysis and root cause investigations for failed deployments, release incidents and production issues, driving corrective and preventive actions.

·  Maintain deployment runbooks, implementation procedures, rollback plans, release documentation and operational support guides to ensure repeatability and audit compliance.

·  Support disaster recovery exercises, environment refreshes, application cutovers and major production events requiring coordinated release execution.

·  Track and report release metrics, deployment success rates, implementation risks, release health indicators and continuous improvement initiatives.

·  Act as the primary technical coordinator during production release windows, managing communications between project teams, support teams, vendors and business stakeholders.

·  Provide guidance and mentoring on release management best practices, deployment standards, implementation governance and operational excellence.

Support audit, regulatory and compliance requirements by ensuring all releases are properly documented, approved, traceable and executed in accordance withe stablished controls.

Requirements:

Must Have

•       Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline.

•       Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in system integration, system implementation, application deployment and production support.

•       Strong experience in Unix/Linux administration, Shell Scripting and SQL development.

•       Strong experience in middleware installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting, including Apache, JBoss and database platforms.

•       Proven experience in end-to-end application deployment, environment setup, release management and production implementation.

•       Experience in designing and implementing system integrations across web, application, middleware, database and external systems.

•       Strong understanding of network, firewall, load balancer, DNS and security concepts, including troubleshooting connectivity and performance issues.

•       Experience in preparing and maintaining technical artefacts, including system integration diagrams, deployment diagrams, network diagrams and data flow diagrams.

•       Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile delivery methodology and change management processes.

•       Experience managing and coordinating SIT, UAT, Mock Run and Production Verification activities.

•       Proven ability to perform root cause analysis and drive resolution of complex production incidents.

•       Experience working with cross-functional teams including Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, Network, Application Development and Business stakeholders.

•       Strong vendor management, stakeholder management and project coordination skills.

•       Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and documentation skills.

•       Self-motivated, highly driven and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Good to Have

•       Experience in Cloudera ecosystem technologies including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Impala and related Big Data platforms.

•       Experience in Hadoop, NoSQL databases and large-scale data processing environments.

•       Experience in AML, Compliance, Financial Crime Surveillance or Regulatory Technology solutions.

•       Experience in AI, Machine Learning or advanced analytics platforms.

•       Experience with CI/CD tools and DevOps practices, including Git, Jenkins and automated deployment pipelines.

•       Experience with workload automation and scheduling tools as Control-M.

•       Experience with Jira, Confluence, SharePoint and collaboration platforms.

•       Experience in cloud platforms and container technologies.

•       Knowledge of disaster recovery planning, high availability architecture and resiliency solutions.

•       Experience supporting regional or multi-country banking platforms and regulatory initiatives

•       Experience in RDOe (Previously Aldon)

Skills

Stakeholder Analysis, Configuring Databases, Leadership, Apache Spark, Development, Big Data, Post Deployment Support, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, Systems Integration, coordinating developers, JBoss, Data Processing, NoSQL, Implementation Planning, Analytics, Standards Compliance, AML, Full SDLC, Application Deployment, Testing