What are the responsibilities and job description for the Release Manager position at Ford?
Job Description
We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better worldtogether. At Ford, we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?
Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you're looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people's lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.
In this position...
The Release Manager for the Warranty product group is responsible for the smooth and efficient management of the entire release lifecycle. This role acts as a central point of coordination and communication between various teams (business, IT, suppliers) and stakeholders, ensuring releases are executed successfully, comply with regulations, and align with business objectives. The ultimate goal is to support the success of Warranty Product Group initiatives through well-managed and predictable releases. The role involves taking over release management from a supplier in a phased manner, demonstrating a transition of responsibility and knowledge
The team is normally onsite 3 days week in the Dearborn, MI office.
Responsibilities
What you'll do...
- Release Management Activities : Managing and improving release processes, including checklists, rollback plans, code merges, Go / No-Go meetings, and change requests in ServiceNow. This also includes sending reminders, maintaining business scope documents, and supporting release activities potentially over weekends / holidays.
- Rally & JIRA Administration : Administering Rally (and migrating to JIRA), ensuring data accuracy, and providing training.
- SharePoint & Shared Drive Maintenance : Managing access, maintaining documents, links, and URLs within SharePoint for the Warranty Product Group.
- CSPS / SPS Handling for OWS : Acting as a gatekeeper for lower environments, supporting changes in AMA, assisting with dealer creation, assigning roles, training users, and providing support.
- ID & Password Management : Tracking, planning, and coordinating password changes for various environments.
- Supplier Resource Management : Managing the onboarding and offboarding of supplier resources, ensuring proper access and maintaining active user lists.
- Audit & Compliance : Leading annual audits (internal / PwC), providing year-round support, and driving / supporting AFR (Annually). This also involves SOX month release planning and execution.
- GitHub Support : Managing and approving code merges for Java and ETL projects.
- Business & PI Planning : Conducting monthly PI Planning sessions, training business teams on data extraction, facilitating retrospectives, and incorporating feedback. This includes leading weekly prioritization meetings, converting CRs to sub-epics, assigning business categories, and prioritizing defects.
- Communication & Coordination : Acting as the primary liaison between suppliers, PMs, and the core team, communicating release information, and sending reminders.
- Other Responsibilities : Maintaining the business delegation matrix and SCM document, maintaining links and URLs, conducting Scrum of Scrums, raising tickets to load test VINs, prioritizing / classifying defects & change requests.
Qualifications
You'll have...
Even better, you may have...
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like : will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including :
For more information on salary and benefits, click here :
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This position is a range of salary grades 6-8 .
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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