Release Manager

Position: Release Manager
Location: Dallas, TX - Onsite

Responsibilities:
Building reports based on software adoption on BI tools.
Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules.
Planning release windows and cycles across portfolios, components
Managing relationships working on interrelated processes
Communicating crucial release plans and changes
Coordinating processes between different teams (possibly in various locations)
Communicating necessary release details to business teams
Managing, planning, and negotiating release activities
Initiating and overseeing progressive release processes
Coordinating enterprise release content and efforts based on OS updates and third-party apps.
Producing deployment, implementation, and run books plans.
Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews
Maintaining release schedules for every core service and ensuring it aligns with major vendors and other stakeholders.
Working with release engineers to comprehend code merges and branch ramifications.
Leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution.
Developing automation and release management tools along with scripts necessary for the construction, continuous integration, and deployment of software release
Researching new software development and the best methods and techniques for managing configurations regarding a business s existing needs
Ensuring that releases operate as per expectations.
Ensuring that requirements are clear across dependent project streams with an effective release.
Initiating and overseeing the development of technical guides and training for external functionality
Managing the development of deliverables into production environments
Validating release notes
Deployment management of deliverables to the test environment particularly guaranteeing that the external dependent items are available during the test runtime.

Qualifications
Excellent programming skills and experience
Ability to handle software infrastructure management & configuration management
Computer science degree or a similar discipline
two to six-year experience in using project or release management tools
An expert understanding of software development lifecycle
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent analytical skills
Structured thinking
Experience in coordinating cross-functional work teams up to task completion