Lead Release ManagerLocation: San Francisco, CADuration: 6+ Month ContractRoles & ResponsibilitiesManaging 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 schedulesBuilding 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 specificationsDetermining & coordinating data requirements and dependencies for upcoming projectsWork with Engineering/Architects to assess release milestone and adapt/grow them as required over time.Define and enforce entry criteria for Production. Acting as a gate.Cross channel involvement in aligning projectsManage branching & merge strategies across development initiatives and phased releasesImplement tactical improvements for version & configuration management, build/release tools and processesLead release planning across organization with consideration of business events, maintenance windows and production support changesEstablish and drive release strategy and process with application/systems engineering and operationsMust Have Skills5+ years of experience in Deployment/Release Management in an enterprise software (not hardware) environment with a background in release engineeringDeployment – day to day release management: managing all release activities across many systems/applications. This includes upfront planning for releases, working with product/engineering, working with third party vendors, and ultimately putting software into the production system.
Experience executing a plan, managing change requests, managing issues that come up, managing dependencies, etc.Process – change management; looking for this person to come in, evaluate the environment, and define/improve/optimize the release process. This may include documentation, process improvement, implementing best practices, understanding what the problems are, and what is the journey to get to the next evolution, implement post-mortems, etc.Communication – leading release discussion with leadership (need to be comfortable going between tech/non-tech team members), consolidating efforts with processesMust has some level of experience within Ecommerce domainTechnical background – comfortable working with the engineering team, good understanding of SDLC.Experience working with both onshore & offshore teamsDevelopment cycle is pretty aggressive, releases are every 2 weeks, managing 2-3 releases in parallel (different stages)Independent worker, self-starter, self-sufficient.