Change and Release Engineer

Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Assist in overall release planning, release governance, risk assessment, milestone management, release prioritization, status reporting, production readiness review and change implementation
Assist in running and reporting on change control meetings for work that deviates from the baseline schedule, budget and resource requirement
Coordinate with release and change management stakeholders to provide inputs to the Change Advisory Board (CAB)
Manage build activities until the software is deployed and delivered to users in production
Create, document, implement code branches and merge strategies for parallel releases Work with project managers, subject matter experts, and infrastructure teams to meet the quality and timely release of new software and infrastructure updates
Maintain the release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures
Design, develop and test automated build and deployment processes
Evaluate continuously the efficiency of existing processes and procedures of change and release management and improve practices associated with continuous building and deploying Support, improve, administer and research new tools for continuous integration and continuous delivery
Manage environment including data refresh and code updates
Triage and resolve environment related defects and provide continuous environment support
Audit build files for completeness and reconcile code with corresponding change requests
Ensure Development, Test and UAT environment readiness
Review and approve changes to production
Track all deployments to preproduction and production environments
Track releases deployed per client by product in production
Schedule and conduct daily and weekly meetings to review release plan and release milestones
Build release roadmap, release plan, release milestones, provide overall release governance
Work collaboratively with all participants in software development projects to ensure all modifications are documented and have passed quality gates
Document release issues/risk and communicate timely to stakeholders Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
Conduct Go/NoGo Meetings with senior management and required stakeholders
Work with stakeholders to ensure right controls are in place for process compliance
Support audit processes from change and release management perspective
Other duties as assigned