Release Coordinator

$55.31 - $62.32 Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Release Coordinator in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid). Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially. Contract Duration: 12+ Months Required Skills & Experience Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and release management practices. Ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity, competing priorities, and delivery pressure. Excellent communication, facilitation, and servant leadership skills. Demonstrated strength in problem solving, conflict resolution, and decision making. Experience supporting end to end delivery, including planning, execution, release coordination, and post release validation. Desired Skills Proven ability to manage delivery risk, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations in fast paced environments. 5+ years facilitating Agile delivery using Scrum and Kanban in complex, cross functional environments. Experience owning delivery forecasts and release plans, not just facilitating team ceremonies. Experience in Banking or Financial Services. Proven familiarity with regulated or risk sensitive environments. Ability to operate effectively amid ambiguity, competing priorities, and delivery pressure. Excellent communication, facilitation, and servant leadership skills. What You Will Be Doing Own delivery readiness and execution discipline by ensuring backlog items entering sprints are fully prioritized, refined, dependency cleared, and technically viable. Coordinate end to end release readiness and execution, ensuring testing, validation, approvals, and deployment activities are planned, visible, and completed without last minute escalation. Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to align scope, sequencing, and priorities with delivery capacity and release timelines. Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to reduce manual effort, improve flow efficiency, and strengthen delivery and release practices. Provide release support coverage as needed, including participation in planned release activities and limited on call support to ensure stable deployments and rapid issue triage. Plan, manage, coordinate, communicate and deploy weekly and "on demand" (expedited / emergency) releases on a rotational basis. Participate in additional release management activities: Patching, Cloning, Upgrades, Key Notifications (gathering information, drafting and distribution) and AGILE/JIRA daily standups and story tracking Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP's Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance. #J-18808-Ljbffr Kelly Services