Release Manager – National Mobile App | Qatar
A national government ministry in Qatar is bringing services from dozens of public and private-sector bodies into one citizen-facing mobile app. Once it’s live, it ships every two weeks. We need the person who makes sure every one of those releases lands.
The role
You’ll own the fortnightly release cycle end to end, from scope cut-off through to live deployment and stabilisation. Every release should have a known scope, a fixed date, a clear go/no-go, and a tested way back. You’ll sit in a three-person service management team, reporting to the Senior Service Manager.
What you’ll do
- Own the two-week release calendar and hold the programme to it
- Run change approval, including technical sign-off from the solution architects
- Chair release readiness reviews and make the go/no-go call
- Manage App Store and Google Play submissions, staged rollouts and versioning
- Line up app and backend changes across the vendor, the integration layer and connected entities
- Plan rollback, hotfix and emergency releases without breaking cadence
- Report on-time rate, change failure rate and rollbacks to programme leadership
What you’ll bring
- 6–8+ years in release, change or DevOps delivery management
- Hands-on experience releasing a mobile app through Apple and Google on a frequent cadence
- Experience on large multi-vendor, multi-stakeholder programmes
- Working knowledge of CI/CD (Azure DevOps or similar) and ITSM tooling (ServiceNow, Jira SM)
- Light-touch ITIL change practice that speeds a two-week cycle rather than slowing it
- The judgement, and the backbone, to recommend a no-go
- Government or regulated-sector experience is a plus
Good to have: ITIL 4, PSM/CSM/SAFe, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
Some out-of-hours deployments and a release on-call rota are part of the job.
