Lead Release Manager

Overview

Job Title

: Lead Release Manager

Location

: San Francisco, CA

Duration

: 6+ Month Contract

Responsibilities

Managing 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 schedules

Building 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 specifications

Determining & coordinating data requirements and dependencies for upcoming projects

Work 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 projects

Manage branching & merge strategies across development initiatives and phased releases

Implement tactical improvements for version & configuration management, build / release tools and processes

Lead release planning across organization with consideration of business events, maintenance windows and production support changes

Establish and drive release strategy and process with application / systems engineering and operations

Qualifications

Must have skills

5+ years of experience in Deployment / Release Management in an enterprise software (not hardware) environment with a background in release engineering

Deployment

• 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

Communication

Must has some level of experience within Ecommerce domain

Technical background - comfortable working with the engineering team, good understanding of SDLC.

Experience working with both onshore & offshore teams

Development cycle is pretty aggressive, releases are every 2 weeks, managing 2-3 releases in parallel (different stages)

Independent worker, self-starter, self-sufficient.

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