Release manager

  • Warszawa
  • Dcv Technologies
JOB DESCRIPTION -Manage Deployment/Release windows both Production and Non-Production environments -Collaborating across global business and technology organizations, providing sound analysis and change leadership. Building and maintaining strong internal customer relationships is essential as this position will work with Business -Partners, internal staff, and system integrators on a daily basis to ensure quality assurance is performed in alignment with global initiatives and requirements across the enterprise. -Provide comprehensive consultation to stakeholders regarding long and short range release delivery requirements and recommend innovations which anticipate the future directions of both business and information technology. -Create Change Management request tickets and manage their timely closures -Provide governance and technical guidance on software components registered for certification and release vehicles. Need to have detail understanding of web applications, database, and infrastructure and configuration management to provide risk analysis on release provided to product team on business decisions. -Drive implementation of tested system changes with global distributed teams to determine priorities, schedule new builds and releases, and maintain the environment / build planning -Drives improvement opportunity session with senior stakeholders related to release management, configuration management, release engineering, environment management, and security management. -Provides problem resolution support, specific to systems and server issues; identifies and resolves system/server problems, coordinating with application users to determine symptoms and ensure accurate problem definition. -Maintains direct knowledge of all operations management and technical processes, procedures, quality standards, and status of service delivery for all operations-related activities. Proposes systems management process improvements and additions. -Develop and maintain a high degree of system knowledge of the products. -Responsible for managing distributed teams across multiple regions and product areas -Leads project teams to achieve milestones and objectives, leading global teams at distributed locations preferred -Interfacing with external business stakeholders. -Develop metrics and reports using Rally to help the team understand its health and progress and to set goals -Coach team members to understand Release Management principals -Ensure clear communication and collaboration among the Operations, Product Owner and members of the Development team QUALIFICATIONS  Basic Qualifications -Minimum of Bachelor’s degree or equivalent  Preferred Qualifications -7-10 years of work experience and a Bachelor’s Degree or -6 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or -3 years of experience with a PhD. -Minimum of 6 years of experience in directly relevant program/release management roles in technology portfolio and software development, test engineering, planning and operations, and/or related functions. -Proven experience leading and managing complex, cross-organizational SDLC, and releases is critical, preferably in a scale Agile development environment. -Knowledge of financial management, ecommerce, internal audit, compliance, and related technical and business processes based on prior experience would be helpful. -Knowledge of ServiceNow or any other Change Management tools is a must -MS/MBA is a plus. -Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification is helpful. -PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM),Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant (SAFe SPC), Certified Stanford Advanced Senior Program Manager (SAPM), and/or Lean Six Sigma certifications also helpful. -Excellent knowledge of DevOps tools such as Bitbucket, GetHub, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, Chef, and Jenkins is highly desirable -Strong process orientation and demonstrated ability to define and document new or improved portfolio and DevOps processes, templates and tools, and create a wide variety of reporting mechanisms for leadership, stakeholders, and team members. -Highly proficient written communication, analytical and problem-solving skills. -Highly skilled in the creation of presentations, new reporting mechanisms and other documents. -High level of attention to detail, including the ability to assess, and synthesize large amounts of content and data related to program status, issues, risks, dependencies, and schedules and distill it in crisp clear language appropriate for a variety of audiences including technology and business executives. -Excellent verbal communication, presentation, collaboration and teamwork skills with demonstrated ability to gain trust, secure buy-in and influence change at all levels. -An ability to influence without direct authority, as well as demonstrate an appropriate level of assertiveness, is critical. -Advanced proficiency in the use of JIRA, Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and SharePoint) required. -Working knowledge of development tools including Rally, Confluence Wiki, and JIRA strongly preferred. Some experience serving as administrator of such tools would be helpful. -Demonstrated ability to thrive in a team-based environment that is fast-paced, rapidly changing, and service-oriented. Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development, learning new skills, and taking on new challenges.