About Land Registry Services (LRS)

NSW LRS has played a foundational role in the lives of people across New South Wales for over 160 years, quietly ensuring the security, integrity and accessibility of land and property ownership. From the first handwritten titles to today’s digital platforms, our evolution has always been guided by one purpose: to create confidence beyond boundaries.

In recent years, we’ve modernised systems, expanded our digital services, and strengthened how we serve our customers and partners. Our recent brand reflects this evolution. It’s a symbol of where we’ve come from and where we’re heading. At the heart of it all is our promise: Powering land certainty for NSW, so people, businesses and communities can move forward with confidence.

Your Opportunity

The Release Analyst is responsible for planning, coordinating and governing technology releases across multiple delivery squads and vendors, ensuring deployments are planned, scheduled, approved and executed in a controlled and transparent manner. The role establishes and maintains a centralised release calendar and supports delivery teams through release planning and execution
activities.

Working across Technology teams, the role develops release runbook templates, works with delivery squads leads or project managers to plan and coordinate IT releases end to end, and provides release reporting and governance to minimise delivery risk while enabling timely and successful business outcomes.

Your Responsibilities

Release Planning, Coordination and Deployment

- Develop and maintain a centralised enterprise release calendar across delivery squads to achieve coordinated planning, visibility and deployment scheduling.
- Plan, coordinate and facilitate end-to-end release activities across delivery, support and operational teams to achieve successful production deployments.
- Oversee release cutover plans,



implementation run sheets and post deployment verification.
- Manage environment dependencies and conflicts across concurrent delivery streams.
- Coordinate deployment activities with delivery squads and vendors.
- Oversee release runbooks, deployment plans and implementation checklists and production verification to achieve consistent and controlled release execution.
- Monitor and communicate release readiness, dependencies, risks and issues to achieve informed decision-making and proactive risk management for Go/No-go meetings.

Governance and practice

- Run release and technical deployment management in line with ITIL and ISMS framework and practices, e.g. SDLC Policy and Change Management Policy and Process.
- Work with delivery squads to ensure release are prepared and properly documented.
- Ensure release entry and exit criteria, quality fate and back-out plans are in-placed, documented and followed.
- Maintain accurate release records in the ITSM toolset, i.e. Freshservice.

Stakeholder management and reporting

- Work with Change Management to communicate release schedules, service outages, and impact clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Prepare and deliver release governance reporting, deployment metrics, risks, issues and status updates to achieve portfolio transparency and stakeholder confidence.
- Support and execute portfolio-wide operational and strategic initiatives as required to achieve Technology and Application Service Operations objectives.

Continuous Improvement





- Identify improvement opportunities of release management process and possible automation to support DevOps ways of working.
- Drive adoption of consistent release management processes, templates and controls across delivery squads and vendors.

About You

To be successful in this role you will have:

- Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Project Management or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience in Release Management, Change Management, IT Service Management or Technical Delivery within medium to large-scale technology environments.
- Proven ability to establish and mature release processes, governance frameworks and reporting practices from the ground up.
- Strong hands-on coordination and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence outcomes across cross-functional technology teams.
- Working knowledge of Agile delivery, DevOps practices, ITIL frameworks, software deployment lifecycles and change management principles.
- Experience using release, project and service management tooling (e.g. Jira, Freshservice or equivalent) and analysing delivery metrics to support continuous improvement.

Why Join Us:

At NSW LRS we’re fostering a welcoming, connected, and fair workplace, where you can be yourself and thrive:

- Our differences are our strength
- You belong at NSW LRS
- Gender equity and equality
- Family comes first at LRS
- Women in Leadership program
- Your wellbeing matters

NSW LRS is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, LGBTQIA+ communities, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Note: NSW LRS does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or search firms.

📌 Release Analyst (Sydney)
🏢 NSW Land Registry Services
📍 Sydney