Sr. Release Managers
Release Management, Agile, SAFe, Jira, Cloud
Description
We are looking for Senior Release Managers to work alongside project stakeholders. Drive operational strategies and collaborate on direction, strategy, planning, prioritization, and ongoing drive of the global change and release framework.
Who We Are
GSPANN has been in business for over a decade, with over 2000 employees worldwide, and servicing some of the largest retail, high technology, and manufacturing clients in North America. We provide an environment that enables career growth while still interacting with company leadership.
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Location: Bangalore
Role Type: Full Time
Published On: 12 October 2023
Experience: 6 - 9 Years
Description
We are looking for Senior Release Managers to work alongside project stakeholders. Drive operational strategies and collaborate on direction, strategy, planning, prioritization, and ongoing drive of the global change and release framework.
Role and Responsibilities
- Drive effective release framework and governance with a continuous delivery mindset across multiple teams and geographies.
- Manage all change activity from planning and testing to deployment.
- Develop risk management and contingency plans for releases of any size.
- Work with Support and Operation teams to ensure operational readiness.
- Communicate effectively at multiple levels within the organization through written and verbal communication, both formal and informal.
- Drive to a global release cadence that defines the cycles and structures, and requires oversight to deliver products and experiences to production.
- Define and publish key metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness of releases and areas of improvement for the Release Management framework.
- Partner closely and continually with product, program, quality, engineering, support, and release teams to align on scope, release cadence, delivery, and support requirements.
- Partner with the business and IT stakeholders to drive release scheduling decisions.
- Provide status reports to key internal/external stakeholders.
- Efficiently manage go/no-go, checkpoint, and retrospective meetings with release stakeholders.
- Participate in Capability Stand-Ups and Program Increment Planning sessions to determine and plan for upcoming release scope.
- Identify and drive retrospective items to completion.
Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field (OR) 2 years of additional professional experience instead of a degree.
- A deep understanding and practical application of standard release process(s), agile methodologies, and technical capabilities (including agile - lean, continuous delivery, SAFe, Information Technology Infrastructure Library).
- Expertise in working on tools like Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow.
- Prior experience working with teams who use development and deployment automation tools in the software development and deployment lifecycle.
- Strong relationship-building skills and experience working closely with leaders and cross-functional partners to deliver key strategic initiatives.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and influence others, negotiate during situational conflict, and establish the best forward path in the face of competing points of view.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a dynamic, result-oriented environment.
