Contract-Release Engineer (Banking/ Fintech)

Contract Opportunity

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end release management activities for MLS and related Compliance Technology applications, coordinating the promotion of software changes across development, testing, pre-production and production environments.
• Plan, schedule and coordinate application deployments, ensuring releases are executed in accordance with approved change management, governance and operational procedures.
• Manage release calendars, deployment pipelines and implementation schedules, ensuring alignment between project timelines, business priorities and production release windows.
• Coordinate deployment readiness activities, including validation of release scope, implementation plans, rollback procedures, environment readiness, dependency assessments and stakeholder approvals.
• Develop, maintain and continuously improve CI/CD deployment processes, automation scripts and release orchestration workflows to enhance deployment efficiency, consistency and reliability.
• Work closely with the application development team and vendor to ensure successful promotion of code, configuration and database changes across environments.
• Review and validate deployment packages, release artefacts, configuration changes and implementation documentation to ensure completeness, accuracy and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Manage production implementations, providing deployment oversight and ensuring successful release execution, post-deployment validation and operational handover.
• Perform release-related risk assessments, identify deployment dependencies and potential implementation conflicts.
• Facilitate release governance processes, including Change Request (CRQ)reviews.
• Monitor deployment activities and production releases, ensuring issues are identified, escalated and resolved promptly to minimize business impact.
• Perform release-impact analysis and root cause investigations for failed deployments, release incidents and production issues, driving corrective and preventive actions.
• Maintain deployment runbooks, implementation procedures, rollback plans, release documentation and operational support guides to ensure repeatability and audit compliance.
• Support disaster recovery exercises, environment refreshes, application cutovers, and major production events requiring coordinated release execution.

Responsibilities

. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related discipline.

. Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience in system integration, system implementation, application deployment, and production support.

. Strong experience inUnix/Linux administration, Shell Scripting and SQL development.

. Strong experience in middleware installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting, including Apache, JBoss and database platforms.

. Proven experience inend-to-end application deployment, environment setup, release management and production implementation.

. Experience in designing and implementing system integrations across web, application, middleware,database and external systems.

. Strong understanding of network, firewall, load balancer, DNS and security concepts, including troubleshooting connectivity and performance issues.

. Experience in preparing and maintaining technical artefacts, including system integration diagrams, deployment diagrams, network diagrams and data flow diagrams.

. Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile delivery methodology and change management processes.

. Experience managing and coordinating SIT, UAT, Mock Run and Production Verification activities.

. Proven ability to perform root cause analysis and drive resolution of complex production incidents.

. Experience working withcross-functional teams including Architecture, Infrastructure, Security,Network, Application Development and Business stakeholders.

. Strong vendor management, stakeholder management and project coordination skills.

. Excellent analytical,problem-solving, communication and documentation skills.

. Self-motivated, highly driven and able to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

. Compliance Technology /AML Platforms

. System Integration,Implementation & Technical Delivery

. Big Data, Analytics& Data Processing Technologies