What are the responsibilities and job description for the Release Manager position at Ventures Unlimited?
Job Details
Job Title: Release Manager
Location: Plano, TX
Type: Full Time Position
Job Description:
Experience Required: 8 years
o As a release manager, 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.
o The release manager 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.
o The release manager You will also 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.
o You will also be 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.
Roles & Responsibilities:
o Attend various release planning sessions during the release life cycle.
o Work with Product Owners and technical leads to generate release i-plans plans, reviews and project requirements.
o Monitor, Coordinate release builds as well as monitoring Technical & Business validations.
o Monitor the integration, and deployment of software releases modules to ensure the release platform is stable, functional in time for testing.
o Manage release risks and resolve issues in a timely manner that might potentially hinder the release quality, and timeline.
o Schedule all release related meetings during the release life-cycle.
o Support Dark-Pod Build & Testing activities as well as Go-Live Swing & live Technical & Business validations.
o Continuous service improvement mindset.
Essential Skills
o Release Managers should possess advanced technical skills which include a thorough understanding of toggling features, branch handling, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
o Release Manager should be capable of implementing suitable methodologies and practices.
o 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.
Tools:
o JIRA - Required
o Experience in building & maintaining Confluence Dashboards & Pages. - Required
o Kanban Boards - Required
o XLR - Nice to have
o Microsoft Suite of Products. - Required
o Release Metrics experience- Required
o Tableau - Nice to have
