Release Health & Delivery Governance Manager

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Position Overview The Release Health & Delivery Governance Manager is responsible for improving operational visibility, governance alignment, and release-health reporting across enterprise delivery systems supporting ZAPP and ZPS platforms. This role operates within Delivery Optimization and partners across Engineering, QA, Release Management, SRE/Incident Management, Platform Operations, and Operational Support to help improve release predictability, operational readiness, delivery stability, and cross-functional coordination throughout the release lifecycle.

The role focuses on operational telemetry synthesis, release-health reporting, governance visibility, and continuous delivery optimization by helping align fragmented operational signals across: release execution escaped defects incidents/MIMs retrospectives deployment telemetry and operational support workflows into actionable operational insight and delivery-health visibility. This is not a traditional QA management or release coordination role. Engineering, QA, SRE, and Release Management teams remain accountable for execution within their operational domains.

The Release Health & Delivery Governance Manager serves as a complementary operational governance and delivery intelligence function focused on: operational visibility telemetry alignment release-health trend analysis governance reporting cross-functional operational coordination and continuous improvement of enterprise release-health practices. The ideal candidate possesses strong systems-thinking, operational risk analysis, release governance, and cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to translate complex operational telemetry into meaningful organizational insight and actionable delivery-health improvements.

Mission Improve operational visibility and governance for enterprise release health across ZAPP and ZPS by helping standardize release-health reporting, telemetry alignment, operational readiness visibility, and cross-functional operational coordination. This role exists to:
* reduce reactive stabilization effort
* improve release predictability
* improve operational visibility
* and help expose systemic delivery risks before they impact clients. This is not a traditional QA management or release coordination role. This is an operational governance and delivery intelligence function within Delivery Optimization focused on improving operational visibility and alignment across the release lifecycle. About the Role The Release Health & Delivery Governance Manager helps lead the operational governance and visibility of enterprise release health across multiple platforms, teams, and operational domains.

This role sits within Delivery Optimization and…