Senior Technical Release Manager

Summary role description:

Hiring a Senior Technical Release Manager for a US-based InsurTech SaaS leader providing end-to-end digital solutions for Life Insurance.

Company description:

Our client is a US HQ, venture-funded, tenured provider of the InsurTech SaaS platform which offers a suite of software products for the Life Insurance and Annuities industry. Their products suite covers the life insurance ecosystem and business life cycle end to end, offering high-end digital solutions to carriers, their policyholders, and their sales personnel, helping insurance carriers improve customer retention, increase sales, and streamline operations. They have been recognized for their innovation and industry leadership.

Role details:

• Title / Designation: Senior Technical Release Manager
• Reporting Manager: Senior Director
• Location: Hyderabad

Role & responsibilities:

• Own and drive the end-to-end release lifecycle, including production deployments, platform updates, and customer-specific releases.
• Act as a technical gatekeeper, validating release manifests (SQL migrations, Kafka schemas, workflow versioning, AWS configs).
• Ensure environment consistency (instance parity) across multi-instance AWS setups, preventing configuration drift.
• Lead Go/No-Go decision-making, coordinating across engineering, QA, product, and support teams.
• Identify and mitigate release risks such as database locks, sequencing issues, and stateful workflow conflicts.
• Drive automation and process maturity, transitioning from manual interventions to structured, scalable release pipelines with measurable KPIs.

Candidate requirements:

• 10+ years of technical experience with at least 5+ years in release management within complex SaaS environments.
• Strong expertise in AWS ecosystem (EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, MSK).

• Hands-on understanding of Kubernetes/Docker and deployment strategies (Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling).
• Proficiency in databases (MySQL/Postgres) with experience auditing migration scripts and release sequencing.
• Familiarity with event-driven and workflow systems (Kafka, Temporal) and handling asynchronous processing risks.
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to enforce release governance and halt deployments when needed.

Selection process:

• Technical Assessment
• Interview by CTO
• Interview by MD
• HR discussions