Lead of Release Management
About the Job
If you thrive in environments where release governance, technical depth, and cross-organisational leadership come together, this role could be a strong next step in your career.
As Senior Release Manager within Allianz Technology's Sales Digital Workstation (SDW) programme, you will own and continuously improve end-to-end release management at scale, creating transparency across a tribe of more than 200 FTEs and harmonising release processes with Operating Entities (OEs).
You will strengthen automation and technical controls, lead a Barcelona-based team of developers, and connect strategy with execution so that release readiness is visible, fact-based and actionable.
The ideal colleague is a technically credible, outcome-focused and collaborative leader who is equally comfortable reviewing a deployment pipeline, facilitating a go/no-go decision, coaching developers and aligning senior OE stakeholders.

What You Do

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- Own the integrated SDW release calendar, release policy, governance model and end-to-end release lifecycle across products,



platforms and OEs.
- Coordinate release scope, dependencies, risks, readiness, go/no-go decisions, deployment windows, hypercare and post-release reviews across a tribe of more than 200 FTEs.
- Lead the transformation towards a harmonised, scalable release model, aligning local and general processes around agreed minimum standards, controls and RACI models.
- Work hands-on with engineering teams to strengthen CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, environment promotion and release orchestration.
- Embed automated quality, security, vulnerability, regression and compliance checks into release pipelines and quality gates.
- Partner with SRE and operations colleagues on observability, release health, incident learning, business continuity and reliable hypercare.
- Provide purpose, priorities and delivery accountability for a Barcelona-based team of developers, coaching them and enabling effec

📌 Lead of Release Management (España)
🏢 Allianz Technology SE Spain Branch
📍 España