Release Manager

Job#: 3040546

Job Description:
Everforth Qunniox - Release Manager

Location: New York City (Remote)

Hourly Rate: $85-90hr on W2 or 1099

Salary: $140,000-$155,000k dependent upon experience

Travel: Up to 1-2x per month to New York City

Equipment pickup required in person.

Everforth Quinnox is an AI-first Digital Always organization orchestrating value for forward-looking businesses. Through AI-powered platforms and intelligent engineering teams, we accelerate digital transformation, redefine total experience, and improve productivity and operational efficiency.

Our AI-first workforce turns challenges and opportunities into a competitive edge, fueling growth, sparking innovation, and building resilience for accelerated time to value.

At the core of Everforth Quinnox's innovation is the Services as Software (SaS) model, transforming traditional IT services into an intelligent, self-evolving ecosystem. Powered by Agentic AI, this ecosystem autonomously designs, tests, orchestrates, and manages operations, continuously learning and improving to deliver scalable, resilient, and outcome-driven business value.

Everforth Quinnox is headquartered in the United States, with a strong global delivery presence across the US, UK, and India. Our work is consistently recognized by leading industry analysts for its real, tangible impact and is strengthened by a robust partner ecosystem.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Release Manager to own and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle for Capital Markets applications. This role involves planning, coordinating, and executing releases across multiple technology stacks, ensuring alignment with governance standards and minimizing business impact. The position serves as a central point of contact between development, operations, and business stakeholders in a time-critical trading environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle across Capital Markets applications, including Front Office, Risk, Finance, Regulatory, and Operations systems.
• Plan, schedule, and coordinate regular and ad-hoc releases across multiple technology stacks.
• Ensure alignment with ITIL Change Management, CAB processes, and bank governance standards.
• Maintain release calendars and dependency mapping across programs and vendors.
• Act as the central point of contact between development, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, security, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Front Office trading desks, Risk, Finance, and Operations teams to minimize business impact.
• Ensure releases meet regulatory, audit, and risk control requirements.
• Oversee deployments across DEV, SIT, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Production environments.
• Track and report release KPIs, such as success rate, rollback incidents, and release frequency.
• Drive continuous improvement in release automation, DevOps practices, and tooling.

Required Qualifications

Experience: Experience in Release Management within Banking or Capital Markets environments is required. A solid understanding of Capital Markets systems, including trading platforms, risk engines, settlement, and regulatory reporting, is necessary.

Technical Skills: Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, or GitLab is needed. Knowledge of ITIL, Change Management, and SDLC methodologies is also required.

Education: A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• ITIL Certification is preferred.
• Experience in regulated financial institutions is strongly preferred.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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