Release Manager - 5627182

Accenture Flex offers you the flexibility of local fixed-duration project-based work powered by Accenture, a leading global professional services company. Accenture is consistently recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For and Diversity Inc's Top 50 Companies For Diversity lists.

As an Accenture Flex employee, you will apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation for leading organizations and communities. In addition to delivering innovative solutions for Accenture's clients, you will work with a highly skilled, diverse network of people across Accenture businesses who are using the latest emerging technologies to address today's biggest business challenges.

You will receive competitive rewards and access to benefits programs and world-class learning resources. Accenture Flex employees work in their local metro area onsite at the project, significantly reducing and/or eliminating the demands to travel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Your role is to ensure timely execution of our Line-of-Business Horizon software releases.. This process includes careful planning, scheduling and supporting Weekly, Monthly and Weekend releases.
• You will also have additional roles and responsibilities which include maintaining our knowledge documents Confluence sites, Kanban boards as well as generating and maintaining release metrics.
• Additionally, you will be responsible for generating comprehensive release plans that lay out important tasks with clear timelines as well as status emails which are utilized during our release deployments.
• Responsible for supporting Weekly, Monthly and Weekend release calls, which require task plan execution as well as monitoring release deployment progression and communicating hourly status email updates.
• RM Support Timings: Support Weekly, Monthly Weekend release deployments
• Attend various release planning sessions during the release life cycle.
• Work with Product Owners and technical leads to generate release i-plans plans, reviews and project requirements.
• Monitor, coordinate and release builds, as well as monitor Technical Business validations.
• Monitor the integration, and deployment of software releases modules to ensure the release platform is stable, functional in time for testing.
• Manage release risks and resolve issues in a timely manner that might potentially hinder the release quality, and timeline.
• Schedule all release-related meetings during the release life-cycle.
• Support Dark-Pod Build Testing activities as well as Go-Live Swing live Technical Business validations.
• Continuous service improvement mindset.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of work experience
• Experience with JIRA is required
• Experience in building and maintaining Confluence Dashboard Pages is also a requirement
• Tool requirements also include: Kamban Boards, Microsoft Suite of Products and Release Metrics
• HS Diploma / GED

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Associate's Degree
• Candidates for this role should possess advanced technical skills which include a thorough understanding of toggling features, branch handling, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• You should be capable of implementing suitable methodologies and practices
• Along with the technical skills, the Release Managers should possess soft skills to drive essential changes to communicate, coordinate, and handle various teams within the organization
• Tableau and XLR are nice to have

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We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Hourly Salary Range

California $47.69 to $57.69

Colorado $47.69 to $57.69

District of Columbia $47.69 to $57.69

Illinois $47.69 to $57.69

Minnesota $47.69 to $57.69

Maryland $47.69 to $57.69

New York $47.69 to $57.69

Washington $47.69 to $57.69

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