Ocient

Job Title: Technical Release Manager (TRM)

Location: Fully Remote (US Based Only)

                *We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind, at this time*

Hiring Manager: Director of Engineering 

Estimated salary range: $130,000 to $175,000

• The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

About Ocient:

Ocient is a hyperscale data solutions company headquartered in Chicago, IL, enabling organizations to analyze trillions to quadrillions of data records in seconds. Over the past five years, Ocient has built a SQL compliant data warehouse for Petabyte and beyond datasets that is 10x to 50x times faster than competitive OLAP databases.

Job Overview:

The Technical Release Manager (TRM) is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing software releases across multiple products and environments. This role ensures that all components of a release — code, configuration, infrastructure, and documentation — are integrated, tested, and deployed efficiently and reliably. The ideal candidate is a technically savvy project leader who can bridge the gap between engineering, operations, and product management to deliver high-quality software on time.

Responsibilities:

Release Planning & Coordination<button aria-hidden="true" data-testid="anchor-button" type="button"></button>

• Develop, own, and maintain the end-to-end release calendar for multiple software products and environments.

• Coordinate release schedules, dependencies, and resource allocation across engineering, QA, DevOps, and product teams.

• Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no-go meetings, and post-release retrospectives.

Execution & Delivery<button aria-hidden="true" data-testid="anchor-button" type="button"></button>

• Oversee the build, integration, and deployment processes for releases, ensuring compliance with version control and CI/CD best practices.

• Understand release pipelines and automated deployment processes in collaboration with DevOps and customer support team.

• Validate release artifacts and help coordinate production deployments, ensuring minimal downtime and rollback capability.

Cross-Functional Collaboration<button aria-hidden="true" data-testid="anchor-button" type="button"></button>

• Serve as the liaison between product management, QA, operations, and engineering to ensure release scope and priorities are clear.

• Communicate release status, risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders at all levels.

• Partner with QA to ensure testing coverage, and with engineering teams to verify that code is production-ready.

Governance & Process Improvement<button aria-hidden="true" data-testid="anchor-button" type="button"></button>

• Define and enforce release policies, controls, and documentation standards.

• Continuously improve release management processes to increase reliability, predictability, and automation.

• Implement best practices for change management, configuration management, and incident handling during releases.

 Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or release management within a product-oriented organization.

• Deep understanding of planning releases in Jira.

• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and CI/CD practices.

• Experience with build and deployment tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Azure DevOps.

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

• Exceptional organizational and coordination skills, with strong attention to detail.

An ideal candidate will have:

• Experience in large-scale distributed systems

• Working knowledge of change control frameworks and release automation tools.

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).

• Strong analytical and communication skills to drive clarity and accountability.

• Experience with agile methodologies (preferably scrum)

• Strong experience managing software features/projects using Atlassian Jira

• Experience as scrum master

Core Competencies

• Technical Acumen: Understands software architectures, pipelines, and dependencies.

• Project Leadership: Coordinates teams and timelines with a strong sense of ownership.

• Risk Management: Anticipates and mitigates issues during release cycles.

• Process Orientation: Builds scalable, repeatable release processes that reduce manual intervention.

• Communication: Balances technical and non-technical stakeholder engagement effectively.

We are not open to using an agency or staffing company at this time. We do not accept unsolicited agency or staffing resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.