Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating, planning and maintaining the release roadmap for one or more applications
• Release and deployment planning and coordination of multiple parallel releases
• Planning release go live and post-go-live activities
• Planning, coordinating and tracking change activities throughout the release process
• Leading release decision meetings to secure stakeholder approval for each release milestone
• Planning and setting up handover sessions from development teams to operations teams
• Increasing release quality and efficiency by integrating new techniques, automation capabilities, and DevOps ways of working to release orchestration

Requirements:

• Previous experience from release or deployment management activities (preferably from the banking sector)
• Experience working with incident, problem and change management tools and processes under ITIL framework
• Confident working with Project Management tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Practical understanding of Agile, Scrum, SAFe methodologies
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English
• Experience to work with continuous integration and continuous deployment practices
• Basic understanding of DevOps ways of working
• Have great communication skills and fundamental technical knowledge in order to communicate with the development team(s) and create & validate deployment runbooks in collaboration with the team
• Have the passion to work with industry-leading Release Orchestration tool to create automated release pipelines with the help of technical experts
• Bachelors/Master's degree in IT or related disciplines
• Flexibility: able to work extra paid evenings and weekends for the implementation of events
• Technical mindset
• Analytical mindset with great coordination and planning skills
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent networking and interpersonal skills
• Pay attention to details, with the ability to keep an overview to deliver your commitments and dependencies to others
• Accountability, proactivity, and ability to quickly adapt and respond to change

Offer:

• Private medical care
• Co-financing for the sport card
• Training & learning opportunities
• Constant support of dedicated consultant
• Team-building events organized by DCG
• Employee referral program