IT Program Release Manager

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Release management provides the planning, coordination, and governance needed to manage technology releases in a structured and predictable way, aligning timelines, dependencies, stakeholders, risks, and readiness activities through key milestones such as cutover and deployment

As an IT Program Release Manager, you will make an impact by:

• Owning and maintaining the integrated IT release calendar, providing visibility to planned production releases, key milestones, dependencies, potential conflicts, and freeze periods.
• Driving release readiness and governance, establishing appropriate checkpoints and controls to help ensure the correct, approved code and release scope are promoted to production.
• Facilitating release readiness and go/no-go discussions, ensuring decision-makers have clear visibility into release scope, readiness, outstanding risks, issues, dependencies, approvals, and actions required before deployment.
• Coordinating cross-team dependencies and release sequencing, proactively identifying potential conflicts, technology dependencies, resource constraints, and execution risks and driving them toward resolution.
• Providing clear release visibility and communications to IT stakeholders and leadership, including upcoming releases, readiness, schedule changes, risks, issues, decisions, and escalation needs.
• Identifying opportunities to strengthen release management practices by recommending practical improvements to release planning, governance, controls, and ways of working

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires at a minimum the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline and 7–10 years of experience in IT release management, project management, IT consulting, PMO, IT transformation, or related information technology roles

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline and 5+ years of experience in IT release management, project management, IT consulting, PMO, IT transformation, or related information technology roles

• Demonstrated experience in enterprise IT release management involving multiple technology teams, applications, platforms, or stakeholder groups.
• Strong experience with release planning and coordination, including release calendars, dependencies, readiness tracking, release freeze periods, and stakeholder communications.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across multiple technology teams, manage interdependencies and competing priorities, and drive delivery issues toward resolution.
• Project management experience with knowledge of planning, scope, schedules, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and delivery outcomes.
• Hands-on experience with project, release, reporting, and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, Power BI, and Microsoft Office Suite.

• Relevant professional certification such as PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, SAFe, ITIL, Lean Six Sigma, or a related project, release, or delivery management certification.
• Experience supporting enterprise technology releases across multiple applications, platforms, infrastructure components, or IT functions.
• Experience with production release governance, deployment readiness, release communications, and post-release reviews.
• Ability to engage and influence IT and business stakeholders, facilitate structured discussions, create alignment, and support timely decisions without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risks, evaluate trade-offs, anticipate downstream impacts, and recommend practical actions.

• Bengaluru (Hybrid) 

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