Release Manager

Role: Release Manager (E-commerce / Retail)
Location: San Francisco, CA (4 Days Onsite)

Description:

Build and manage various IT applications release and production schedules. Lead merge strategies and align cross-channel projects.

Specific 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.

Experience in Retail/Ecommerce domain is required.

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 fr upcoming projects

Fundamental knowledge of applications, systems and integration points.

Work with Engineering/Architects to assess release milestone and adapt/grow them as required over time.

Work with Engineering & Project Management (PM) to define inter dependencies in deployment plans

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

Lead activities to ensure test environments are configured with correct components & integrations across multiple applications.

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

Responsible for identifying and management of delivery automation initiatives

Develop expertise within the team

Develops release approaches across multiple applications, systems, components and services for complex or multiple domains

Works closely with software & build engineers, architects, QA and project teams to define release requirements, including code dependencies & conflicts, version control, test strategies and deployment schedules.

Escalation point for critical release conflicts and/or issues

Ability to develop merge plans of large, complex systems across minor/major release schedules

Drives issue resolution and risk assessment for multiple project deliveries being deployed within a single release or across multiple release.

Manages issues with conflicting interests and identifies compromises

Drives decisions for coordinating components/features and co-dependencies from various product deliverables that must come together to work as integrated release package

Strong sense of urgency with ability to assess & deliver results under pressure

Sets quarterly and annual release plans that involves strategic initiatives with high business impact

Strong delivery life-cycle methods

Continuous integration builds;

managing multiple configuration files in multiple deployment environments;

managing multiple releases in multiple deployment environments;

deploying variety of artifacts web/enterprise applications

Manage complexities of partial deployments & work with tools to handle the same

Form, motivate, and lead high-performance cross-functional teams

Build effective partnerships with, and between, the developers, architects, QA Team, and product managers

Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise

Demonstrates the ability to positively influence change and address barriers impeding progress.

Provides leadership and encourages teamwork throughout all levels of the organization

May interact with business leadership at all levels

Coaches, mentors, and trains as appropriate

Contributes to performance appraisals for team members

Assists in conducting team building/development activities

Be change agent for instituting release approach in developing and delivery of business functionality that involves a range of systems and business priorities

Drives selection and adoption of enterprise-wide process and policy

Self directing and provides direction for others within and outside the team