- Provide IT Release Management oversight and support as directed for projects Staged / tagged as candidates for Enterprise / Offers releases
- Projects will be staged and delivered in accordance with Enterprise Release Milestones and/or Offers monthly release
- Release Manager is responsible for all planning, tracking, communication/status and reporting related to each releases they are assigned
- Additional responsibilities include preparing milestones, tracking metrics for project deliverables (Analysis, Design, Development and Testing)
- Use a balance of technology and business skills, working closely with IT Teams to deliver outstanding implementations of projects and applications
- Work with Business Analysis, Enterprise System Architecture, IT Development and Testing teams to deliver exceptional quality and capability for related projects and functionality in a dynamic and time-to-market driven environment
- Successfully manage large / cross functional releases that range from $1 Million to $25+ Million dollars while monitoring deliverables, understanding requirements, and adhering to SDLC methodology and processes in a fast-paced and dynamic delivery organization
- Responsible for ensuring that release and change management work follows established standards, processes, and guidelines
- Focus on quality deliverables, utilizing strong project management skills
- Implement best practices and procedures to improve quality of deliverables and efficiency of execution teams
- Provide hands-on mentoring and guidance of project management skills and best-practices to enable partners and empower team players in a success-oriented project team environment
- Display clear and effective verbal and written communications skills during interactions with business, project management, team members, and executive management
- Ensure that release related issues and risks are identified, understood and dealt with in a manner that mitigates risk to scope, cost, and schedule
- Measure results and monitor key performance indicators to ensure release objectives including deferred defect counts are met throughout the year
- Coordinate and work with SQA Personnel to ensure the quality of the deliverables
- Great to have had prior PM experience
- Understand both Waterfall and Agile
- Tools: Clarity, PowerPoint, MS Project, Excel
- Release Management experience in similar size: Large / Matrixed environments
- Understand Waterfall
This opportunity is a Long Term Contract
