inspire
Release Manager-Digital Engineering [T500-13187]
Job Description
Skills required:
- Agile SDLC experience
- Co-ordinate across multiple Agile teams ( more than 8 teams) to manage release evaluation and deployment
- Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional projects.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliverables in a dynamic environment.
- Experience and comfort with business-related tools and platforms such as Confluence, Jira
- Problem-solving attitude to conflicting negotiation skills
- Ability to think strategically and execute tactically
- Flexible and resilient, comfortable with ambiguity, adaptable to a high-change environment and open to new concepts and/or processes.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies, software development lifecycles, and release management processes.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliverables in a dynamic environment.
Responsibility:
- Plan and manage product releases, ensuring they are delivered on time and with high-quality standards.
- Monitor and communicate release status, issues, and risks to all stakeholders, including executive leadership, product owners, and development teams.
- Coordinate and help identify critical bug fixes, feature requests, and other changes that need to be addressed before and during releases.
- Identify and manage release risks and issues, proactively communicating status to stakeholders.
- Ensure that release documentation, such as release notes, user guides, and knowledge base articles, are up-to-date and accurate.
- Continuously improve release processes by identifying areas of inefficiency and implementing best practices.
- Create and maintain a detailed project plan for each release, including timelines, dependencies, and risks.
- Tracks and manages deliverables for Major Releases (quarterly) across product & engineering, customer experience, marketing, and sales enablement teams to ensure that all aspects of the release are planned, communicated, and executed effectively.
- Partners with Quality Engineering and Release Readiness teams to ensure minor releases are tracked and aligned with product management and customer expectations.
- Partners with Quality Engineering and Release Readiness team to ensure minor releases are tracked and aligned with product management and customer expectations
Digital Platform Technical Stack:
- Enterprise Development Languages (Java, Server-side JavaScript, Scala)
- Distributed services (REST, SOAP)
- Enterprise Framework – Spring
- Microservices built out using technologies that include Java, NoSQL, Kubernetes
- cloud native devops architectures (Azure preferred)
- containerized app deployments (Docker, AKS)
- Mobile App with REST based services , Node.js