Release Manager

Specific Responsibilities

• Managing the various schedules - release, production changes, project timelines, etc.
• Providing daily metrics/status for environment and project health (Dashboards or other KPI delivery methods).
• Verifying gate completion for projects with PCI/Sox implications (checklist).
• Coordinating projects into existing test environments/maintaining environment schedules
• Building Release schedules and deployment plans to manager and implement a release.
• Active management of issues queue from opened to closed.
• Coordinating with project/application & TDS to ensure 3rd party integrations are configured & tested according to project/release schedules.
• Working with projects, engineering and QA to define upcoming environment requirements and specifications
• Determining & coordinating data requirements and dependencies fr upcoming projects
• Fundamental knowledge of applications, systems and integration points.
• Work with Engineering/Architects to assess release milestone and adapt/grow them as required over time.
• Work with Engineering & Project Management (PM) to define inter dependencies in deployment plans
• Define and enforce entry criteria for Production. Acting as a gate
• Cross channel involvement in aligning projects
• Manage branching & merge strategies across development initiatives and phased releases
• Implement tactical improvements for version & configuration management, build/release tools and processes
• Lead release planning across organization with consideration of business events, maintenance windows and production support changes
• Lead activities to ensure test environments are configured with correct components & integrations across multiple applications.
• Establish and drive release strategy and process with application/systems engineering and operations
• Responsible for identifying and management of delivery automation initiatives
• Develop expertise within the team
• Develops release approaches across multiple applications, systems, components and services for complex or multiple domains
• Works closely with software & build engineers, architects, QA and project teams to define release requirements, including code dependencies & conflicts, version control, test strategies and deployment schedules.
• Escalation point for critical release conflicts and/or issues
• Ability to develop merge plans of large, complex systems across minor/major release schedules
• Drives issue resolution and risk assessment for multiple project deliveries being deployed within a single release or across multiple release.
• Manages issues with conflicting interests and identifies compromises
• Drives decisions for coordinating components/features and co-dependencies from various product deliverables that must come together to work as integrated release package
• Strong sense of urgency with ability to assess & deliver results under pressure
• Sets quarterly and annual release plans that involves strategic initiatives with high business impact
• Strong delivery life-cycle methods
• Continuous integration builds;
• managing multiple configuration files in multiple deployment environments;
• managing multiple releases in multiple deployment environments;
• deploying variety of artifacts web/enterprise applications
• Manage complexities of partial deployments & work with tools to handle the same
• Form, motivate, and lead high-performance cross-functional teams
• Build effective partnerships with, and between, the developers, architects, QA Team, and product managers
• Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise
• Demonstrates the ability to positively influence change and address barriers impeding progress.
• Provides leadership and encourages teamwork throughout all levels of the organization
• May interact with business leadership at all levels
• Coaches, mentors, and trains as appropriate
• Contributes to performance appraisals for team members
• Assists in conducting team building/development activities
• Be change agent for instituting release approach in developing and delivery of business functionality that involves a range of systems and business priorities
• Drives selection and adoption of enterprise-wide process and policy
• Self directing and provides direction for others within and outside the team 3B Staffing LLC