PURPOSE

Under limited guidance, delivers new or changed services successfully into a production environment within the required timescales and with minimal disruption to existing services.Collaborates with other release managers, architects, development, and product support staff to manage the dependencies between configuration items within a release and oversee the promotion of the release from test to production.Document and manage a comprehensive Implementation Plan for each release, complete with back out plans.Adhere to the defined Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) procedures and to the Standard IT operating Procedures (SOP).

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsible for collaborating with system engineering/product architects and identifying dependencies, both logical and technical.Collaborate with Project Management to define a release schedule for all components under management, maintain a forward schedule of changes.Work with Project Management and deployment/support staff to ensure that necessary infrastructure and middleware upgrades are integrated into the planned release schedule.Proactively establish the end-to-end-to-end activities for the deployment of a software release (via Implementation Plan), inclusive of all plans necessary for back-outResponsible for ensuring that all Implementation Plans are consistent with defined Release Services Processes and are repeatable.Conduct Post-Deployment Analysis of all implementations and reporting of established metricsParticipate in Continual Service Improvement (CSI) efforts for all Release Services Process and Procedures

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

2-4 years of experience in Release managementExcellent communication skillsStrong Problem Solving and Critical Thinking SkillsTechnical Solution AnalysisUnderstanding of Multi-Tiered application architectureMust possess the technical skills to perform the job requirementsUnderstanding of automation processes and tools.

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