Technical Release Manager - Cincinnati, OH - W2 - Contract

Technical Release Manager
Type:: Contract - W2
Location:  Cincinnati, OH 45227 --->> locals/ Non Locals
Duration: Long term 

Job Summary
This position requires working onsite up to 5 days per week.
The role involves overseeing the integration and flow of development, testing, and deployment of systems, as well as planning releases, including features and enhancements. The Release Management team collaborates closely with Agile Squads and Program teams to coordinate release plans and deployments. Responsibilities include supporting deployments, monitoring issues, managing environments, and ensuring adherence to Release Management standards.
 
Key Responsibilities
•    Drive the strategy of the Release/Environment team.
•    Coordinate deployment of code and hardware changes while ensuring environment consistency and availability.
•    Create comprehensive Release Plans from QA through Post-Production.
•    Cultivate strong working relationships across IT teams.
•    Monitor and guarantee uptime of environments.
•    Identify, assess, manage, and report risk within the Bank’s risk appetite.
 
Required Experience
•    Controlling test environments and configuration management.
•    Working with QA, Production Support, and Development teams.
•    Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
•    Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools.
•    Large-scale transformation experience in Environments and Release Management is a plus.
•    Strong attention to detail.
 
Technical Skills
Must Have:
•    Active listening and constructive feedback skills
•    AWS
•    Clear, concise, adaptive communication across technical and non-technical audiences
•    Confluence
•    Digital AI
•    Jenkins
•    ServiceNow
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
•    Understanding of relevant tools, platforms, or programming languages
Nice to Have:
•    Dynatrace
•    Splunk