Integration Release Manager

Position Title: Integration Release Manager Location : Hyderabad About Opella Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) and Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally. Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be, serving half a billion consumers worldwide and counting. At the core of this mission are our loved brands, global teams, manufacturing sites, and specialized science and innovation centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the maker of brands including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale, and Mucosolvan. As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey toward healthier people and planet. About the job Join Opella’s Integration Platform team as Release Manager and take full accountability for release management across the global integration landscape. The role owns the end-to-end release lifecycle for integration changes, from planning and readiness through CAB decision-making, deployment coordination, post-release validation, reporting, and continuous improvement. This is a dedicated operational leadership role designed to provide focus, consistency, and accountability. The Release Manager acts as the central point of coordination across Integration, application teams, Quality, Security, Operations, projects, and external partners to ensure releases are safe, predictable, compliant, and business-aligned. Main responsibilities •        Own, define, and continuously improve the end-to-end release management process for all Integration Platform changes and deployments. •        Prepare, maintain, and communicate the integrated release calendar, aligning deployment windows, release trains, business priorities, dependencies, constraints, and support coverage. •        Lead release planning and readiness reviews, confirming that build, testing, documentation, approvals, operational handover, monitoring, rollback, and validation requirements are complete. •        Coordinate CAB preparation and participation, including change assessment, impact analysis, risk evaluation, stakeholder alignment, decision logging, and escalation of unresolved concerns. •        Facilitate go/no-go decisions and hold clear authority to recommend postponement or rejection when release quality, compliance, or operational readiness is insufficient. •        Oversee the creation, quality review, approval, and execution of release and cutover plans, including sequencing, dependency management, rollback strategies, and post-deployment checks. •        Coordinate production deployments across integration middleware, and supporting tooling. •        Ensure adherence to Opella governance, security, quality, data privacy, and applicable regulatory requirements, including GxP and SoX controls where relevant.