Senior Release Engineer IS

Role:Senior Release Engineer

Job Requisition Number: IS-97636

Job Level: 10years of relevant experience (L4)

Location: Singapore

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 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.

. Track and report release metrics, deployment success rates, implementation risks, release health indicators and continuous improvement initiatives.

. Act as the primary technical coordinator during production release windows, managing communications between project teams, support teams, vendors and business stakeholders.

. Provide guidance and mentoring on release management best practices, deployment standards, implementation governance and operational excellence.

Key Requirements:

Must Have

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

. Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in system integration, system implementation, application deployment and production support.

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

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

. Proven experience in end-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 with cross-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.

Good to Have

. Experience in Cloudera ecosystem technologies including HDFS, Hive, Spark, Impala and related Big Data platforms.

. Experience in Hadoop, NoSQL databases and large-scale data processing environments.

. Experience in AML, Compliance, Financial Crime Surveillance or Regulatory Technology solutions.

. Experience in AI, Machine Learning or advanced analytics platforms.

. Experience with CI/CD tools and DevOps practices, including Git, Jenkins and automated deployment pipelines.

. Experience with workload automation and scheduling tools as Control-M.

. Experience with Jira, Confluence, SharePoint and collaboration platforms.

. Experience in cloud platforms and container technologies.

. Knowledge of disaster recovery planning, high availability architecture and resiliency solutions.

. Experience supporting regional or multi-country banking platforms and regulatory initiatives

. Experience in RDOe (Previously Aldon)

Technical Skills:

. Compliance Technology / AML Platforms

. System Integration, Implementation &Technical Delivery

. Big Data, Analytics & Data Processing Technologies