Release Manager - Senior (6-10 yrs.)

Sr. Release Manager

Do you want to be part of an enterprise data solutions team managing over 150+ terabytes of data and building the next-generation analytics platform for a leading financial firm with over trillion in assets under management? At Schwab, the Data & Rep Technology (DaRT) organization owns the strategy, implementation, delivery, and support of the enterprise data warehouse and emerging data platforms. We are looking for someone who has a passion for release management in large scale data warehousing organization and comes with a data engineering background. Someone who wants to be challenged every day and has a passion for keeping up to date on new technologies in the Data Engineering space set new standards for Schwabs hundreds of ETL developers and collaborates with the team members along the way.

What you'll do:

• Document, and facilitate Release Management meetings supporting multiple Data Warehousing and ETL development teams and stakeholders.
• Implement and manage release processes for application related updates through development, test, and production environments. Continually look for making improvements in the release process.
• Provide oversight for deployment of releases into production environments through ensuring release readiness and adequate deployment list handoff to Service Delivery.
• Interface and communicate with Test Managers, Dev Managers, IT Ops and the PM.
• Build the Cloud migration and the ETL Release Calendar in working closely with the cloud migration team and various development teams from different portfolios and centralize all the release views.
• As a Production Release Coordinator/Manager, you will coordinate release content and effort based on the development request backlog, pending service requests, and business priorities.
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations and various vendors.
• Conduct Release Readiness Reviews, Milestones reviews and business Go/No Go reviews.
• Review deployment plans, rollback plans, resource plans, and communication plans.
• Weekly & Monthly Release reports to leadership and stakeholders.
• Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities with various ETL development teams, Cloud migration team, and Control-M scheduling team.
• Participate and coordinate the Go live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
• Participate in the CAB meetings to discuss and review release scopes and/or roadblocks as needed.

Required Skills:

• Recent Release Manager experience of at least 10 years. Release manager certification would be preferred but not mandatory.
• Must have managed releases of multiple streams/dev teams.
• Preferably in Data Warehousing area.
• Cloud experience preferred.
• Preferably Scrum Master/PM experience & certification. Not mandatory.

Additional Skills:

• 12 month contract with chance to go perm
• High profile finance client looks great on resume

Background Check: Yes

Notes: Hybrid: 3 days onsite in Westlake, TX (DFW area). Must be local