Release Manager - Finance Applications

About MBRDI

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI), headquartered in Bengaluru with a satellite office in Pune, is the largest R&D center for Mercedes-Benz Group AG outside of Germany. Our mission is to drive innovation and excellence in automotive engineering, digitalization, and sustainable mobility solutions, shaping the future of mobility.

Job Description: Senior Release Manager

Position Overview

We are seeking a strategic and highly experienced Senior Release Manager to own and evolve our enterprise-wide software release lifecycle. In this role, you will govern the delivery pipeline, orchestrate complex, multi-team deployment strategies, and bridge the gap between executive leadership, engineering, and IT operations. You will manage individual release cycles while championing process optimization, automation, and governance across the organization.

Core Responsibilities

• Strategic Release Governance: Define, mature, and enforce the overarching enterprise release strategy, establishing KPIs for release quality, velocity, and stability.
• Complex Orchestration: Lead coordination of concurrent release streams, manage deep cross-team dependencies, and resolve architectural bottlenecks across multiple product lines.
• Risk Mitigation & Incident Leadership: Perform comprehensive risk assessments for major deployments and serve as the primary escalation point and decision-maker during critical go/no-go reviews and production rollback scenarios.
• CI/CD Optimization: Partner with Enterprise Architecture and DevOps leadership to architect, scale, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, automated testing gates, and environment management workflows.
• Compliance & Audit Ownership: Standardize change management frameworks, such as ITIL, to ensure adherence to security, compliance, and regulatory auditing standards.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and mentor release coordinators or project managers, cultivating operational excellence and continuous improvement across engineering squads.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years in software engineering, DevOps, or technical project management, including at least 5+ years in senior-level release management or release engineering.
• Technical Mastery: Practical knowledge of branching strategies, feature flagging, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitLab, and GitHub Actions.
• Agile Governance: Expert command of Jira, Confluence, and enterprise portfolio management tools.
• Executive Communication: Ability to communicate technical risks, downtime impacts, and deployment statuses clearly to C-level executives.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Information Technology, or a related field.

Why Join Us?

Be part of a purpose-driven organization shaping the future of mobility. Work on cutting-edge technologies and global projects in a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive environment with access to world-class infrastructure and learning opportunities.

Equal Opportunity Statement

At MBRDI, we are committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of gender, background, or ability.

Benefits

• Employee discounts
• Possible health benefits
• Mobile phone for employees
• Possible meal discounts
• Company retirement benefits
• Hybrid work possible
• Mobility offers
• Events for employees
• Coaching
• Flextime possible
• Near-site childcare
• Parking
• Canteen and café
• Good public transport
• Barrier-free workplace
• In-house doctor

Contact

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India Private Limited
Plot No. 5-P, EPIP 1st Phase
560066 Bangalore

MBRDI Recruitment E-Mail: mbrdi_recruitment@mercedes-benz.com