diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 04d1dfe53ba4..813dd5d09aaf 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-15324: Upgrade jaegertracing to 1.6.0 and libthrift to 0.14.1 (wcmrnd1, janhoy)
 
+* SOLR-15892: Adding Randomization in selecting shard leaders for delete and commit requests for RoutedAlias
+
 ==================  8.11.0 ==================
 
 Consult the LUCENE_CHANGES.txt file for additional, low level, changes in this release.
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/RoutedAliasUpdateProcessor.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/RoutedAliasUpdateProcessor.java
index d95f946578b0..6eacd50dbd9f 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/RoutedAliasUpdateProcessor.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/update/processor/RoutedAliasUpdateProcessor.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Random;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
@@ -86,6 +87,8 @@ public class RoutedAliasUpdateProcessor extends UpdateRequestProcessor {
   private final RoutedAlias routedAlias;
   private final SolrParams outParamsToLeader;
 
+  private static final Random random = new Random();
+
 
   public static UpdateRequestProcessor wrap(SolrQueryRequest req, UpdateRequestProcessor next) {
     String aliasName = null;
@@ -254,7 +257,7 @@ private SolrCmdDistributor.Node lookupShardLeaderOfCollection(String collection)
     if (activeSlices.length == 0) {
       throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE, "Cannot route to collection " + collection);
     }
-    final Slice slice = activeSlices[0];
+    final Slice slice = activeSlices[random.nextInt(activeSlices.length)];
     return getLeaderNode(collection, slice);
   }