Job Title: Release Manager
Job ID: 37303
Location: Alpharetta, GA 30005
Duration: 6-12 Months with possible extensions
Interview Process: Phone/WebEx
Number of Positions: 2
*** Candidate required to be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National***
Required Skills:
Release Management:
Release Plan/ Release Schedule/Deployment:
(Dev/QA/test deliverables)/Program mgmt. skills:
Agile:
Top 5 Skills / Additional Job Posting Description Details *
Desired Skills and Experience:
Experience and SME knowledge in one more areas such as development, testing, system architecture, or software configuration and deployment
understand the design and interfaces for specific components of applications/microServices in a release management portfolio.
Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the system solution and explore alternatives
Engage with portfolio stakeholders, Solution and Enterprise Architects, to develop, analyze, split, and realize the implementation of tech enablers or applications/microServices in release portfolio
Participate in project planning, system and solution demos, retrospective workshops
Ability to communicate to executive leadership, business leaders as well as technical stakeholders
Provide guidance to partners and stakeholders for successful deployments and releases including the ability to lead and influence team members with direct supervision
Drive industry standards and best practices throughout the enterprise
RM tool selection, process improvement and measurable automation.
Required Skills and Experience:
Plan the release of application/mS deliverables and release life cycle in an Agile framework
Communicate the release-related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements. Act as liaison between different teams, organizations and stakeholders.
Coordinate the release schedule and resources required depending upon the third-party applications, defect backlogs, planned releases, and infrastructure updates.
Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage/mitigate them, such that the scope scheduled, quality of the release and end customer experience is not affected.
Uncover issues and track the progress. Always working to improve the process of the release.
Make sure that the release is planned, according to the requirements and budget.
Schedule the release readiness reviews before deployment and milestone reviews after each release.
Create plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule.
Creates, manages and communicates release level jeopardies
Plan and give weekly updates on the release activities
Make sure the allocation of Release Engineers to every release.
Communicate with release managers from different IT departments.
Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the software successfully.
Team up with relevant development teams responsible for building the automation tools used to develop and deploy the software.
Lead/host meetings to discuss the release schedules with the team and find roadblocks.
Supports technical teams by engaging on call or resources required to resolve issues; monitor and control changes to the release and deployments
Maintain documentation related to procedures on build, test and release.
Make improvements in the methodologies used for configuration management, development and delivery of software features, functionality, enhancements and hot fixes.
Roles and Responsibilities:
1) Must have ability to break down complex software concepts into the core components. And translate these software concepts into well-written technical system specifications and functional requirement documents. The results of this work define innovative new features that drive the software development process at DIRECTV's STB software engineering department.
2) Create STB software specifications and Requirement's specifications that define how new STB software features shall work.
3) Provide creative solutions to challenging technical problems.
4) Define overall STB system design and solution.
5) Contribute technical analysis for end-to-end system requirements, design and interface specifications.
6) Provide complete system specifications and API for STB software architects.
7) Review and provide feedback on QA test plans and test cases.
8) Review and prioritize projects schedules on a weekly basis with management.
9) Establish and maintain partnerships with cross functional groups.