Job Description
Release Manager, Te Au Reka – Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington
12 month Fixed-term – Full time
Te Haeata/The Opportunity
Own the moment change goes live.
As Release Manager, you'll be the authority that turns complex digital change into safe, confident go-lives. You'll own release strategy, governance, and delivery — planning and leading high-risk releases that matter to the courts, the judiciary, and the public.
This is a senior, influential role where you set standards, manage go/no-go decisions, resolve competing priorities, and ensure readiness across teams, vendors, and environments. You'll shape how releases are done, lift capability across the organisation, and be trusted to protect service stability while enabling progress.
If you thrive in complexity, like having real accountability, and want to be known as the person who makes change land safely — this is your role.
Ō Pūkenga/Skills And Experience
If your experience looks a little different from what we have outlined and believe you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you
To Be Successful In This Role You Will Have
5+ years' experience leading release management in large, complex technology environments, ideally within the public sector or other regulated settings.
Proven accountability for high-risk, high-impact releases, with confidence making decisions under delivery pressure.
Demonstrated ownership of release and environment management across programmes, including scheduling, dependency management, and readiness assurance.
Strong experience designing, embedding, and enforcing release governance, standards, and quality controls across multiple teams and vendors.
Advanced knowledge of release and deployment methodologies, including automated pipelines, auditability, and tested rollback strategies.
Hands-on experience with release tooling and pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps) and non-production/production environment management.
Proven ability to influence, coach, and mentor others, building capability and bringing people together to achieve outcomes.
Strong analytical capability, using data and insights to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and inform system-level decision making.
Desired
Relevant IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) qualification, with practical application across change, release, and environment governance.
Relevant PRINCE2 or Agile qualification, with strong working knowledge of Agile delivery frameworks in complex delivery environments.
Mō mātou/About us
At Te Tāhū o te Ture - the Ministry of Justice, we're committed to strengthening people's trust in the law of Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Joining Te Tāhū o te Ture means you will become part of an organisation that welcomes and supports people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disabilities and religions.
Ngā painga o tēnei wāhi mahi/What's great about working here
Benefits
We offer you a range of benefits to support your wellbeing and help make the Ministry a great place to be. These include:
22 days holiday leave
flexible work hours where possible
an online professional development portal
access to a variety of inclusive and proactive networks
See our full range of benefits here.
With a wide range of jobs, you also get the chance to gain a variety of skills and experience while developing your career.
Utu ā-tau/Salary
The remuneration band for this role is $118,904 - $163,344. The appointing salary for this role will be between $118,904 - $140,134 based on skills and experience.
Tono mai/Apply
You can view a detailed position description here, as well as complete an online application form by attaching your CV and cover letter.
Applications close on 18 February 2026.
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