• Job Description

  Req#: REQ-23674
  Lead Release Manager

  Millennium is seeking a Lead Release Manager to join a dynamic global team . This Lead Release Manager will be responsible for supporting the R elease C ontrol process for Fixed Income and Commodities Technology.

  In this role, you work closely with business stakeholders and across developer teams within the Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit, Rates, and FX business at Millennium to ensure release stability .

  Responsibilities

  Proactive r elease management:

  • Spearhead robust release process with proper auditing , testing , and documentation

  • Gatekeep releases and coordinate cross - team releases to maximize production stability

  • Validate regression and integration testing results for staged releases

  • Evaluate up coming releases for upstream and downstream impact

  • Create formal rollback plans for new releases

  • Coordinate cross - team dependencies for forthcoming release

  • Define and prioritize business objectives in the BOW and upcoming release roadmap

  • Set and meet delivery timelines

  • T rack progress towards high-level goals , and identify and resolve blockers

  • Communicate release contents effectively with stakeholders, including Portfolio Managers

  • Incident management and analysis

  • Actively participate in triag ing ongoing incidents

  • Provide advice and guidance for root cause analysis

  • Utilize observability tools to quickly zero in on active issue

  • According to RCA, improve regression and integration test suites to prevent reoccurrence

  • Drive weekly meetings to evaluate problems, RCAs, and test - gap

  • Stay in touch with external teams to ensure that upstream issues are resolved

  • High level system design

  • Work on high - level system design and flow

  • Standardize and enforce cross-stack observability, including traces, metrics, alerts and logging

  • Develop deep understanding of system flow and microservice interaction

  • Iterate over Release Control process to ensure maximum production stability and stakeholder buy-in

  • Quality Assurance

  • Supervise QA Engineers in building and maintaining regression and integration testing suites

  • Ensure integration environment remains stable and healthy across applications

  • Review test-reports for staged releases

  • Provide go / no go guidance for sensitive releases based on test coverage, dependencies, and upstream / downstream effects

  Required qualifications

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience in large-scale distributed system, complex software design, high scalability and availability, optimization, observability

  • Excellent communication and prioritization skills

  • Strong analytical problem solving and decision-making skills

  • Profound understanding of design patterns, data structures and algorithms

  • Proven skills in performance tuning, monitoring and measurin

  • Experience with automation and building robust processes / pipelines

  • A degree in Computer Science (preferred) or related engineering field

  Preferred qualifications

  • Working with cloud technologies, Kubernetes and Istio a strong plus

  • Experience with related open source technologies such as gRPC , Protobuf , Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, Postgres etc. is a plus

  • Experience with Java is a strong plus

  • Functional experience with JavaScript, Typescript, Python, Angular, Node , or React is a plus

  • Experience with Playwright, Selenium, or Ranorex for end-to-end testing is a plus

  • Familiarity with Jenkins, ArgoCD , GitHub

  • Experience “owning” release process for an application or organization is a strong plus

• About the company

  Millennium is a global alternative investment management firm, founded in 1989, which manages $47.1 billion in assets. We seek to pursue a diverse array of investment strategies across industry sectors, asset classes, and geographies.

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