Release Manager

Role: Release Manager
Chicago, IL
Onsite
Rate:$90/hr
Client: The Northern Trust Company


What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
• Release Management
• Process Governance
• PM tools like Clarity / PPM
• Excellent communication skills


Job Description/ Responsibilities Release Manager Responsibilities
- Aligned to directly coordinate the readiness and execution of monthly releases for the Cash Portfolio;
- Prepare, maintain, and govern the Monthly Release Calendar, ensuring dependencies are mapped; Proactively identify and resolve release clashes and dependency conflicts.
- Respond to release scheduling queries, resolve conflicts and facilitate release related forums and calls
- Support preparation of release decks, ensuring correct versions are used, changes are tightly controlled once baselined
- Create, maintain and track the Release runbook, facilitate reviews with the relevant stakeholders
- Orchestrate execution of the agreed runbook including opening and managing release chats
- Lead release communications covering pre-release readiness, Go/No-Go outcomes, post release confirmation and updates
- Coordinate release deployment activities across Capability, Technology, SQM and Business stakeholders
- Log and track post release issues, clearly recording ownership; Facilitate issue triage meetings to capture root causes and prioritise issues based on impacts
- Apply CRM processes consistently across releases, ensuring adherence to governance standards and audit expectations.
- Maintain and manage release documentation and folders, ensuring artefacts are organised, version controlled, and audit ready


PMO Responsibilities:
- Program level scheduling including features by release
- Annual planning , resource forecasting and maintenance
- Initiative level Governance, maintain central RAID log, support stakeholder communications
- Project Status Reporting and Governance updates
- Support Internal program Audit
- Coordinate the collation of Initiative release readiness material
- Financial tracking & reporting
- Financial planning and administration - monthly/quarterly Clarity portfolio management & reporting, Clarity admin support updates - resource forecasting support, Task creation and resource addition through the year supporting implementation leads