📢 Join the Team as Release Manager - (European Commission)

📍 Location: Brussels, Belgium [Hybrid]

🤝 Client: European Commission

💼 Your Role

As a Release Manager, these are the main tasks that you'll be responsible for:

• Plan and coordinate release schedules across multiple development teams and product lines
• Manage release pipelines, deployment automation, and environment coordination
• Facilitate communication between development, QA, operations, and business stakeholders
• Oversee quality gates, testing phases, and release readiness assessments
• Coordinate rollback procedures and incident response during deployment issues
• Maintain release documentation, process improvements, and lessons learned
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and organizational policies
• Analyze release metrics and continuously improve delivery processes
• Assist in implementing software version control processes, policies and procedures
• Release preparation: schedule, align scope, people involved
• Develop rollback criteria and plans for rolling back a deployment
• Develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients
• Communicate checkpoints for releases during sprints: increment cut off, begin and complete testing
• Resolve and escalate impediments, manage risk, assure value delivery, and drive program-level continuous improvement
• Ensure ongoing commitment to the customer experience through performance testing and monitoring

🛠️ What You'll Bring

✅ Technical Skills:

• Great understanding of SDLC
• Knowledge of DevOps principles
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools
• Release orchestration tools (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, AWS/Azure DevOps)
• Experience with version control systems (Git)
• Experience with issue tracking (Jira or similar)
• Strong cross-team communication and coordination skills
• Experience with testing, quality gates, and performance monitoring
• Familiarity with incident management and rollback procedures
• Governance, documentation, and compliance awareness
• Agile methodology experience and the ability to manage risks and dependencies

🗣️ Languages:

• Excellent knowledge of English - Level C1 in understanding, speaking and writing

🤝 Soft Skills:

• Autonomous
• Strong organisational and time-management skills
• Excellent verbal communication
• Attention to details
• Good problem-solving skills

🎁 What's in It for You?

• You will have the opportunity to work in an international and multi-cultural environment
• You will be able to work for interesting European projects that are managed by European Commission
• Whether you're applying as a freelancer or looking for an employee contract, we offer attractive compensation and benefits packages, tailored to your experience level

✨ Ready to Join?

If you're excited to work in a role where you'll grow professionally and make an impact from day one - we'd love to hear from you!

🌍 Who We Are - NTT DATA

NTT DATA - a part of NTT Group - is a trusted global innovator of IT and business services headquartered in Tokyo. We help clients transform through consulting, industry solutions, business process services, IT modernization and managed services. NTT DATA enables clients, as well as society, to move confidently into the digital future. We are committed to our clients' long-term success and combine global reach with local client attention to serve them in over 50 countries. Visit us at nttdata.com.