Release Manager / Scrum Master

COMPANY INFORMATION

ICT Strypes is a company with extensive experience in software development. With a team of over 700 people, we take ownership of application roadmaps for our clients and structure their overall application landscape.

Founded in 2008 as a small startup, ICT Strypes became part of the Dutch ICT Group in 2014. The ICT Group, with a history of delivering IT solutions since 1978, now has subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Portugal, Germany, and Sweden.

Our teams consist of talented hard-working professionals who love sharing their knowledge, experience, and joyous moments with their colleagues!

You can join us at our offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, and Varna, or choose to work remotely from anywhere in Bulgaria.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position:

We are seeking an experienced Release Manager / Scrum Master to join our team and delivery organization. This role combines strong Agile leadership with a solid technical background, ensuring smooth sprint execution, high-quality releases and continuous improvement across cross-functional teams.

This role will be responsible for owning and coordinating the release management process across environments, while also organizing and facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint planning, team sizing sessions, backlog grooming sessions, end-of-sprint ceremonies, creating dashboards & reports to show team productivity and velocity.

The Release Management duties of the role will include planning, coordinating, and managing software releases, along with overseeing version control, release schedules, and build status, in communication with the PM, QA, BA, Dev team, and Stakeholders.

The Release Manager/Scrum Master will also serve as impediment remover for the team, creating and managing tasks, based on business requirements documentation and specifications provided by the Product Owner team.

Essential Prerogatives:

• Work closely with Tech Leads, Architects, Business Analysts and Stakeholders to understand the product strategy, vision and priorities, to ensure development delivery is aligned and backlog items have clear and concise acceptance criteria to meet as-expected results for each sprint deliverable;
• Facilitate backlog grooming with Product Owners, Architects, BAs and Development teams to ensure priorities, understanding, and dependencies are clear prior to each sprint planning;
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospectives), driving continuous improvement through follow-up and action plans;
• Create dashboards and reports that provide consistency and productivity metrics and can provide teams and the organization with relevant product delivery status;
• Release planning & management: Ensure release readiness, including quality checks, documentation and stakeholder communication;
• Plan, coordinate and execute software releases; Maintain release calendar; Manage dependencies and align releases with business priorities;
• Escalation handling and follow-up.

Essential Skills:

• 3+ years of experience as a Release Manager, Scrum Master, or similar role with a software development team that applied Scrum principles & practices;
• Technical background in software development, engineering or IT (hands-on experience</strong>);
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and software development lifecycles;
• Excellent working knowledge of Agile tools (e.g. JIRA);
• People management experience; leadership qualities;
• Ability to understand complex technical and business problems to effectively remove team impediments, to manage multiple priorities, to mitigate project risk(s) and deliver successful outcomes;
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders;
• A team player with an interest in collaborating and working in a multicultural environment daily.

COMPENSATION BENEFITS

• Option for working remotely, on-site or hybrid;
• Flexible working hours;
• Friendly work environment;
• Supplementary health insurance;
• Loyalty programs:
  • after each year worked you get additional paid annual leave (1 per year, max. 25 days total);
  • after the third year, you can get a budget for a car or be included in a bonus program;
  • after the fifth year, you will receive a one-time holiday bonus;
• Free parking and carpooling;
• Employee recognition program;
• Technical and personal learning opportunities;
• Quick onboarding process;
• Personal freedom to solve complex problems.

If you think this is the right challenge for you, please send us your CV.

All applications will be treated as strictly confidential, and only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Thank you for applying!