Agile Release Manager

Role overview

Release management

• Coordinate global cross-functional teams across Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Operations to deliver customer solutions.
• Own the release calendar, go/no-go criteria, and deployment mechanics for non-production and production environments.
• Support QA and DevOps to help products meet quality standards and deploy quickly and securely.
• Improve release processes by automating manual steps, removing bottlenecks, and tightening cadence.
• Track release frequency, lead time, and failure rate; maintain effective relationships across internal teams.

Agile training and coaching

• Design and deliver training sessions and workshops across multiple scrum teams.
• Coach engineers, designers, analysts, and product owners on agile practices that support predictable commitments, clear ownership, and reliable releases.
• Build teams' independent agile capability and identify maturity gaps to create targeted learning plans.
• Measure each training cycle's effect on release speed and reliability and adjust accordingly.

Required qualifications

• Recognized Agile trainer-level certification, such as ICAgile Certified Professional–Agile Coaching, Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional, or equivalent, enabling formal teaching.
• Relevant industry experience in delivery or release coordination and agile ways of working.
• Experience with or strong working knowledge of Agile and DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication and conflict-management skills; able to present, train, and perform hands-on delivery work.
• Collaborative, reflective, and continuous-improvement-oriented approach; comfortable balancing delivery and teaching.

Additional useful experience

• Experience running training sessions, workshops, or programmer onboarding is a plus.
• Release automation or CI/CD pipeline improvement experience is a plus.
• Understanding of IT security products such as identity, authentication, and access control is a plus.
• Familiarity with ITIL or similar service management approaches is a plus.

Benefits

• Private premium health insurance, visa costs, and one month of paid hotel accommodation on arrival.
• Annual home-country airfare allowance; paid maternity and paternity leave; 25 days of annual leave plus a Callsign bank holiday.
• Competitive salary and end-of-service gratuity.

Workplace

• The posting says the role joins the technology team at the Abu Dhabi office.