Sr Release Manager
Hopkins , MN - Location
Phone and In person - mandatory
6++ months
The candidate has to be local , willing to go in person and have impeccable
comm skills
Client’s Feed Management Systems (FMS) is looking to fill a contract
release coordinator on its team. The role is located in Hopkins.
This role will be part of a shared capabilities team within FMS and support
multiple products. The ideal candidate will come in with proven release
coordination experience and expertise on the overall release management
process. This role is tactical and hands on within the process. Someone
willing and able to get their hands dirty right away is desired. The goal
of this role is to engage the release coordinator upfront and include
through the end to end process to ensure knowledge and expertise is gained
and shared.
The Release Coordinator is responsible for owning the planning and
coordination of all phases and activities involved in the release of a
product or product update into the test or production environments. They
facilitate release meetings and develop the release recommendation and
release deployment plans based on input from multiple stakeholders within
various product portfolio teams. They identify priorities, conflicts,
dependencies,
and risks for the release. The Release Coordinator ensures that plans are
in place to mitigate those risks.
The Release Coordinator confirms the release deployment plan is followed
and that all release deliverables (usually in the form of release
activities or entry/exit criterion) have been completed in-line with the
product release dates and deadlines. They produce and manage release notes,
approvals, communications, contact lists and pre and post-release
verification activities.
The Release Coordinator works closely with the Release Manager and FMS
product management to improve the software engineering processes and
practices associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating
software and environments for our products.
45% Release Planning:
• Facilitates release planning meetings with key stakeholders to identify
proper sequencing of release packages. Ensures that issues and risks are
identified, understood, and dealt with in a manner that mitigates risk
to scope and schedule.
• Defines and documents the release recommendation for each release and/or
change to production. Includes release scope, schedule, deliverables, and
roll back plan. Reviews release recommendation with key
stakeholders.
• Oversees release decisions and processes in terms of the big
picture/cross-departmental impacts.
• Maintains release management schedule for specific (or assigned) products.
• Documents and communicates all changes for a release in release notes
which are published to both the internal product team and the
customer/stakeholder.
• Attends change management such as CABs and deployment planning meetings
to collect data and information pertaining to the release.
40% Release Management:
• Pursues Product and Project compliance with release acceptance criteria.
• Provides outage information and fills out service level agreement
blackout request.
• Coordinates and schedules key change to production activities. This
includes the tracking of all elements with team leads as the project moves
through testing regions into production. Accommodates a flexible
schedule as most product releases occur outside of regular business hours.
• Supports release execution by monitoring of each phase of the release.
Validates the release as it progresses thru various release gates and test
phases, alerts appropriate stakeholders of any errors or issues that
need to be addressed.
• Provides release coordination and communication during and after
deployment.
• Creates requests for change (RFC to production) and obtains appropriate
approvals.
• Facilitates emergency releases from production incident identification to
incident closure after release.
• Verifies capture of customer acceptance/signoff on deliverables.
10% Release Standards and Processes:
• Identifies opportunities to make tactical improvements to the release
management process.
• Maintains documentation of all processes.
• Creates release management standards to be followed. Educates external
vendors on the release methodology and strategy.
• Collects feedback from the users of release management standards and
identifies the need to modify or retire a standard based on the feedback.
• Integrates the release process with other Software Development processes,
including Agile processes.
• Works closely with Change and Configuration Management team in IT to stay
current on all change, configuration and internal controls standards and
processes.
5% Test Environment Coordination:
• Strictly manages timing and coordination of test runs with competing
projects and client stakeholders sharing pre-production test environments.
• Manages overall non-production environment usage, configuration, and
scheduling of the different test environments for each release.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. MIS or related field; or,
equivalent work experience.
• 2-4 years of previous release management experience,
• 4-6 years of experience in information systems environment in systems
analysis or development.
• Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward
task completion.
• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills.
• General PC knowledge including Microsoft Office expert level knowledge of
Excel, working Knowledge of Access
Preferred Qualifications
• Formal training in project management practices.
• Solid understanding of project management principles.
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