Release Lead

At Topicus Finance, we are dedicated to making a positive impact on the financial industry and people's lives by bringing together financiers and entrepreneurs with our Fyndoo platform. Are you ready to make dreams come true and help companies grow?

Our mission at Fyndoo is ambitious: to close the global lending gap with innovative technology. We are transforming the lending landscape by providing end-to-end, cloud-based solutions that empower banks and financial institutions worldwide.

We have experienced rapid growth, expanding our team and capabilities to deliver exceptional technology solutions. Our culture is built on collaboration, continuous improvement and having fun along the way. We are proud to be recognized for our outstanding workplace culture and commitment to innovation.

Fyndoo is on the lookout for a highly organized, proactive, and enthusiastic Release Lead to join our dynamic team. As a Release Lead, you will play a crucial role in planning, scheduling, and coordinating software releases, ensuring seamless delivery and integration of new and updated solutions for our users. You will collaborate with various teams to maintain the quality and efficiency of our release processes. Other key responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain detailed release schedules and plans.
• Coordinate release content and effort based on service request backlogs and third-party applications.

• Manage risks and resolve issues that impact release scope, schedule, and quality.
• Monitor progress to ensure on-time and within-budget delivery of releases.
• Ensure releases meet quality standards.

• Communicate key plans, commitments, and changes, including requirements, QA plans, schedules, and scope changes.
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams, scrum masters, and Delivery managers across various locations.
• Publish release notes and technical documentation for our customers. We believe that sharing release notes is a moment to celebrate with our (potential) customers, not an event you dutifully share. You are the one who gets to hand out all those valuable novelties, you do so with pride and joy

• Plan and oversee deployment activities to ensure minimal service disruption. You also ensure that all partners are aware of this, especially in case it happens outside regular expectations.
• Validate the integrity of pre-release and production environments.

• You take care of release reviews and make sure that findings will be logged and shared with the product leadership team for continuous improvement.
• Maintain up-to-date release-related documentation.

• Ensure compliance with audit requirements by managing and maintaining release records.
• Implement and manage release processes for code through development, test, and production environments.

You have proven experience as a Release Lead or have worked in a similar role within software development. Next to that you have excellent communication skills in English and interpersonal skills. We also find the following important:

• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Strong project management skills combined with the proficiency in using release management tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git, Jira)
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Ability to manage multiple products, teams, and deadlines
• A problem-solving aptitude and strong analytical skills

• Attention to a good balance between work and private life
• An extensive onboarding: to give you a soft landing in your first month
• A contract for an indefinite period, as soon as you are completely in your place
• 27 vacation days annually (based on 40 hours) and the option to purchase additional vacation days
• Sustainable and flexible travel through our versatile mobility plan: by bicycle, public transport or by car
• Training, coaching and development opportunities through our Topicus University
• Knowledge sharing: become a member of one of our Topicus Guilds or participate in our (internal) knowledge events such as TopiConf
• A fair reward
• A working budget of €3,565 to choose your own work tools
• A home work (place) allowance: because at Topicus you can work hybrid
• A good pension scheme
• Small and close-knit teams
• Working at the nicest IT company in the Netherlands: will we see you at our monthly drinks?
• We value authenticity and invite you to be yourself
• A vitality program: we facilitate Topics to take the first step in making healthy and fit choices