Release Manager

Responsibilities

• Manages multiple aspects of technology releases, ensuring the coordinated integration of applications and systems within various portfolio streams.
• Serves as a subject matter expert while partnering with various teams to build release schedule and project plan/milestones for an application and/or project.
• Leads the build and maintenance of the infrastructure for configuration and release management, for new or enhanced application systems.
• Leads the quality check on change releases to ensure processes are following enterprise standards, guidelines and best practices.
• Creates and maintains deployment plan success guides within segments and projects ahead of release execution.
• Oversees configuration management procedures and processes.
• Consults and collaborates with peers to provide oversight and ensure proper use of tools, methods and schedules to enable compliance with the change management process.
• Executes change management processes appropriately.
• Documents release management process improvement opportunities and ensures proper escalation as needed.
• Mentors and trains others on release coordination, deployment, and overall best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry-relevant experience
• Bachelor’s degree
• Application Development
• Business Management
• Customer Solutions
• Design
• Group Problem Solving
• IT Change Management
• ITIL Release Management
• IT Service Management (ITSM)
• Process Improvements
• Release Management
• Software Solutions
• User Experience (UX) Design
• Agile Development
• Application Delivery Process
• Configuration Management
• Cross-Team Integration
• IT Environment
• IT Governance
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Software Release Management
• System and Technology Integration

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Release Management and IT Change Management, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and best practices while leading cross-team integration and process improvements. Proficient in Application Development and Configuration Management, with a strong focus on mentoring and training others in deployment and release coordination.