Senior Release Engineer

Overview

The Senior Release Engineer owns the planning, coordination, governance, and continuous improvement of releases across Danaher's Enterprise Data Platform, including Snowflake, Azure, Matillion, dbt, Airflow, GitHub, and related data services.

What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end release management and governance for the data platform, including release planning, scope, schedules, dependencies, readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, change approvals, production readiness checks, deployments, validation, rollback, hypercare, closure activities, and post-release reviews.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery and stakeholder alignment with platform engineering, data engineering, DataOps, architecture, security, service management, vendors, and OpCo teams to manage dependencies and mitigate risks.
• Represent releases at Change Approval Boards and ensure adherence to DHR standard processes.
• Align release trains with enterprise platform priorities, data product delivery, compliance commitments, and OpCo onboarding.
• Establish and continuously improve release processes, standards, and automation, including release calendars, checklists, entry and exit criteria, deployment and rollback plans, runbooks, evidence requirements, and release reporting.
• Advance GitHub Actions, CI/CD, GitOps, automated testing, environment promotion, and deployment controls.
• Enforce change-management, segregation-of-duties, security, audit, compliance, and emergency change requirements.
• Coordinate release windows, production validation, incident handoffs, rollback decisions, and release communications to minimize failed changes and service disruptions.
• Drive release transparency and performance measurement through stakeholder communications and reporting of release status, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decisions.
• Use release outcomes, defects, incidents, lead time, deployment frequency, rollback trends, and lessons learned to improve delivery reliability, efficiency, and operational excellence.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of progressive experience in release management, change management, platform operations, software delivery, or related technology disciplines, including responsibility for coordinating enterprise production releases across complex technology environments.
• Proven experience managing releases across cloud, data, or software platforms, working across multiple teams, environments, dependencies, and stakeholder groups while balancing competing priorities.
• Strong technical understanding of modern data platform technologies, including Snowflake, Azure, Matillion, dbt, and Apache Airflow, with the ability to assess deployment dependencies, operational impacts, and production risks.
• Hands-on knowledge of modern software delivery and change-control practices, including GitHub Enterprise or comparable source-control platforms, CI/CD methodologies, branching and promotion strategies, automated testing, deployment approvals, and rollback procedures.
• Experience with IT service management/change processes using ServiceNow or equivalent tools, including standard, normal, and emergency changes.
• Exceptional planning, facilitation, documentation, risk management, and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple releases and translate complex technical release information into concise status, readiness, risk, and decision communications for engineering teams and executive leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to have

• Release management for regulated or audit-sensitive platforms under SOX, SOC 1/2, GxP, privacy, or similar control frameworks.
• GitOps, reusable GitHub Actions workflows, automated quality gates, artifact versioning, and progressive delivery practices.
• Data platform observability, incident management, problem management, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
• Coordinating releases in a multi-OpCo, multi-tenant, or federated enterprise environment.
• Certifications such as ITIL 4, SAFe, or Scrum.

Details

• Reports to the Director - Data Platform and Operations; part of the Enterprise Data Engineering team in the Bangalore IDC office.
• Specific working arrangement will be confirmed by the interview team.
• Travel up to 10% domestically and occasionally internationally for team meetings, planning workshops, vendor engagements, and OpCo collaboration.