Release Manager

• Bachelors/Master's degree in IT or related disciplines.
• Accountability, proactivity, and ability to quickly adapt and respond to change.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Flexibility: able to work extra paid evenings and weekends for the implementation of events.
• Practical understanding of Agile, Scrum, SAFe methodologies.
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English.
• Technical mindset.
• IT project management and planning skills (7+ years).
• Previous experience from release or deployment management activities (preferably from the banking sector).
• Experience working with incident, problem and change management tools and processes under ITIL framework (preferably on Bank's side).
• Confident working with Project Management tools (Jira, Confluence).
• Experience to work with continuous integration and continuous deployment practices.
• Basic understanding of DevOps ways of working.
• Understanding of how to work with Risks connected with Releasing processes.
• Great communication skills and fundamental technical knowledge to communicate with development teams and create & validate deployment runbooks.
• Passion to work with industry-leading Release Orchestration tool to create automated release pipelines with technical experts.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Release orchestration tools (Helix, Digital.ai).
• Previous experience in Banking.

• Coordinating, planning and maintaining regular release roadmap for one or more applications.
• Release and deployment planning and coordination of multiple parallel releases.
• Planning release go live and post-go-live activities.
• Planning, coordinating and tracking change activities throughout the release process.
• Leading release decision meetings to secure stakeholder approval for each release milestone.
• Planning and setting up handover sessions from development teams to operations teams.
• Increasing release quality and efficiency by integrating new techniques, automation capabilities, and DevOps ways of working to release orchestration.
• Working with central releasing team.