Sr Product Owner

Release Operations Engineer - Hybrid

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Release Operations Engineer - Hybrid position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC, Plano, TX and Pennington, NJ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented professional to support and coordinate end-to-end release management activities. This role serves as the central liaison for all release-related documentation, governance, timeline tracking, and signoff coordination across cross-functional teams. This is a hybrid position requiring a minimum of 3 days per week onsite.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary liaison for all release-related documentation and coordination activities across project and delivery teams
• Generate, consolidate, and maintain release extracts and reports from JIRA to support planning, tracking, and stakeholder communication
• Track and monitor release timelines, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies to ensure activities remain on schedule
• Coordinate release readiness activities, ensuring all pre-release requirements, validations, and checkpoints are completed
• Secure all necessary approvals and signoffs from stakeholders including technology, testing, operations, business, and governance teams
• Prepare and organize all required release documents, including implementation plans, rollback plans, risk and issue logs, release checklists, readiness summaries, and approval records
• Facilitate communication between development, QA, product, infrastructure, operations, and business teams to ensure smooth release execution
• Track and escalate risks, issues, blockers, and outstanding actions that may impact release schedules or readiness
• Support release governance by ensuring documentation is complete, version-controlled, and aligned with organizational standards and compliance requirements
• Maintain release calendars and communicate key milestones, changes, and status updates to relevant stakeholders
• Participate in release meetings, readiness reviews, and post-release activities, including lessons learned and action tracking
• Ensure release artifacts are archived appropriately for audit, traceability, and future reference

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Proven experience in release coordination, release management, project coordination, or PMO support within a technology or software delivery environment
• Hands-on experience using JIRA for extracting release data, tracking status, monitoring progress, and generating reports
• Strong understanding of release lifecycle processes, including planning, readiness, validation, approvals, and deployment support
• Experience preparing, reviewing, and maintaining release documentation, including release plans, checklists, readiness assessments, risk logs, and signoff records
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to coordinate across technical and non-technical teams

Desired skills:

• Experience working in an Agile development methodology
• Experience with RAG and LLM

Pay range: $64.02 - $72.02 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!