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In this role you will work with Release and Deployment Management leadership and team to enhance standards around Release Management. Responsibilities include maintaining project schedules, timelines, and queueing across assigned resources for projects. Triage escalations from projects based on risk to project, compliance, or security – report any irregularities immediately. Defining and leading the creation of dashboards and hosting weekly stand ups for inflight releases. Proactive escalations, self-identified risks, areas to watch, resource hot/cold spots, release conflicts that need leadership attention. Work with the CI/CD teams to ensure consolidation and automation as part of key DevOps – CI/CD initiative. Manage relationships and positively influence the various teams involved to ensure full engagement.
Major Responsibilities:- Work with Release and Deployment Management leadership and team to enhance standards around Release Management
- Define and lead creation of dashboards and host weekly stand up
- Releases in flight and resources required for support
- Executive Leadership – proactive escalations, self-identified risks, areas to watch, resource hot/cold spots, release conflicts that could impact Users, Systems, Business that need leadership attention (aggregated view)
- Ensure timely identification and remediation of any risks related to a release
- Work with Development, Test and Release teams to automate where ever possible
- Maintain project schedules, timelines, and queueing across assigned resources for projects
- Ensure appropriate billing (charge back/Show back is being processed for initiatives)
- Triage escalations from projects you are overseeing based on risk to project, compliance, or security – report any irregularities immediately
- Manage relationships and positively influence the various teams involved to ensure full engagement
- Facilitate the resolution of any release roadblocks
- Review Release Plans, Release Checkpoints, and Project Requirements
- Manage Release Planning and automation tasks
- Work with the CI/CD teams to ensure consolidation and automation as part of key DevOps – CI/CD initiative • Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
- Undergraduate degree in computer science, information technology, or any engineering field, or equivalent experience
- Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT) framework practitioner or certification a plus
- 8+ years’ experience leading Release, Change, Development, and/or Program Management for DevOps 8+ years’ experience with Agile Methodologies, ITIL/COBIT
- Experience in the banking or finance industries preferred
- You are an A player that lifts up those around you – no I in team
- Accountable leader that is willing to go the extra mile to develop your team and those around you
- You LOVE creating and standing up new teams and processes that follow industry standard best practices around ITIL, COBIT and DevOps
- You embrace change • As an experienced Release Manager – you understand the air traffic controls (phase gates) needed to minimize risk and maximize time to value for introducing change into the environment
- Agile is in your DNA – interacting with and providing phase gates to developers whether it is business as usual or new product introduction – is your cup of tea.
- You understand the rigor and compliance (GLB, Basel I & II, PCI, HIPAA, SOX and COBIT) needed for a world class financial institution to comply with multi-national regulations
- Demonstrating an unparalleled work ethic by producing complete, polished deliverables with a persistent mission-focused, confidently asks “Why?” as often as necessary to get to the root of the matter
- Forthright by speaking with conviction, pushes back based on understanding, and respectfully
- Acting honorably by knowing what’s right, what’s appropriate and acts accordingly
- Solid understanding of DevOps, Agile, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- Solid Understanding of newer Release Management and related solutions for DevOps/CI/CD – including but not limited to Jenkins, Maven, OpenShift, Puppet, Docker, CloudBees, Splunk, Ansible
- Experience with coordination and facilitation of release management processes and procedures
- Understanding of the solution delivery lifecycle and relationship to release management
- Solid understanding of DevOps, Agile, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- Solid Understanding of newer Release Management and related solutions for DevOps/CI/CD – including but not limited to Jenkins, Maven, OpenShift, Puppet, Docker, CloudBees, Splunk
- Solid understanding of regulatory compliance directives affecting banking
- PMP desired or at least equivalent experience in Project/Program management best practices
- Banking or Financial Services industry is a plus
- Initiative, innovation, thoroughness, and collaboration Influencing skills, results orientation
- Stakeholder partnership, change advocate Strong organizational skills and the ability to multitask; sets priorities and follows a timeline
- Ability to hold oneself accountable
- Experience facilitating meetings of cross functional skill sets with specific agendas and timelines
- Clear, concise communication skills in both oral and written format
- Proven ability to manage, track, and report on process outcomes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to determine criticality and priority based on facts at hand
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