Agile Release Manager-2

Description

Agile Release Manager

We are looking for a Release Manager to work with scrum teams within business segment portfolios that will be responsible for scheduling, planning, and controlling the software delivery process. The objective is to facilitate the process required to move software releases into production while coordinating with different teams to ensure the smooth delivery of software releases efficiently with little disruption. In addition, the Release Manger will work the scrum teams to ensure team members time is allocated in Service Now to the appropriate value stream and scrum team for time tracking and cost allocation.

Detailed Description:

Plan Releases

Work with Experience Owners (aka Product Managers), Execution Managers (aka Product Owners), Scrum Masters to slot Features/MVPs into a release

Identify cross impacted team dependencies and communicate scope to cross impacted teams

Create release plan and communicate to stakeholders

Schedule Releases

Create a monthly release plan for monthly releases outside of the quarterly Enterprise releases

Coordinate release plans (implementation/validation) and activities with business segment scrum teams, cross impacted teams, and Enterprise Release Team (for quarterly releases),

Ensure impact on IT controls are identified and addressed

Obtain release exceptions, if necessary

Support Delivery Teams

Coordinate ongoing dependent work between cross impacted teams and business segment scrum teams has been completed prior to a release

Manage the allocation of scrum teams members time within the Service Now to enable time tracking and appropriate cost allocation

Resolve issues and mitigate risks… escalate as necessary

Track changes and communicate impacts to all teams

Coordinate environment availability needed for all teams for development & test

Support continuous improvement

Support implementation of a DevOps practices and tools (e.g. CI/CD pipelines) to enable more automation in the release process

Determine Production Readiness

Track progress of all teams towards completion of planned scope… escalate issues

Obtain release exceptions, if necessary

Prepare for the release Go / No Go meeting and verify release readiness:

Ensure development teams have completed an implementation plan and change tasks in Service Now

Verify test results and update test results in Service Now for the Go / No Go meeting

Verify stakeholder readiness

Ensure all audit & compliance requirements are met

Obtain approval & sign-off’s from stakeholders

Conduct Go / No Go meeting

Manage Releases

Set up the release bridge call and chat channels

Manage & coordinate the execution of the Implementation/Validation Plan

Coordinate release status with affected business teams on release night

Monitor MS Team chats on release night for each team deploying code to obtain status and provide support as needed (ex. Incident issue triage)

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree

Min 2 years of experience working in a portfolio/program/release management capacity (business or technical)

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong understanding of the application development lifecycle

Agile mindset

ITIL Foundation certification

Experience with DevOps practices and tools (e.g. CI/CD pipelines) and automation of the release process

Strong communication skills… ability to negotiate solutions with stakeholders

Strong problem solving skills

Work independently and with minimal supervision

Possess excellent analytical skill

Tools: ADO (AzureDevOps) and ServiceNow

Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay)Yes

Workplace Type:

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