Configuration & Release Readiness Lead

b Overview /b p In this role, you coordinate and govern the readiness of releases for a data-driven SaaS platform, ensuring configurations, permissions and dependencies are validated before exposure to clients. You act as the single engineering view for release readiness and drive evidence-based decisions to improve quality and predictability. You’ll work across Engineering, Product, Platform, Security and Operations to reduce risk and enable safe, controlled deployments at scale. This is a chance to shape release processes as the platform moves toward continuous deployment and multi-tenant environments. /p b Pay / Benefits /b ul li flexible working hours /li li birthday off /li li private medical insurance /li li pension with employer match /li li Wellbeing and employee assistance /li li Cycle to Work and technology purchase options /li /ul b Responsibilities /b ul li Provide an engineering view of release readiness with evidence, dependencies and decisions for safe releases /li li Own release-readiness governance, define criteria and decision points, facilitate reviews and give readiness recommendations /li li Assure tenant and configuration readiness across services and environments (config, permissions, mappings, feature controls) /li li Coordinate technical and operational validation (integration, default behaviours, failure modes, rollback and disablement) /li li Confirm support readiness (monitoring, observability, runbooks, documentation, recovery procedures) /li li Improve release outcomes using incidents and learning to strengthen controls and predictability across Engineering, Product, Platform, Security, Data and Operations /li /ul b Key requirements /b ul li Experience coordinating complex releases in a B2B SaaS, software platform or enterprise product environment /li li Strong understanding of continuous deployment, progressive delivery, feature flags and configuration-driven systems /li li Knowledge of configurable customer environments (single-tenant or multi-tenant) and dependencies across microservices, data flows, permissions and platform components /li li Structured readiness and risk management covering evidence, exceptions, dependencies, operational support and informed release decisions /li li Clear technical communication to align Engineering, Product, Platform and Operations stakeholders /li /ul ul li Structured thinking /li li Clear technical communication /li li Cross-functional collaboration /li li Continuous deployment /li li Progressive delivery /li li Feature flags / feature-management (OpenFeature, LaunchDarkly) /li /ul