Release Engineer

Skills

Faciliate the overall release delivery process coordinate release activites and dependencies across products and teams Maintain overall release schedule and coordinate with cross functional groups on cross team dependencies and release readiness activities Own release status updates and provide clarity to all stakeholders including the team on progress towards the agreed milestones Measure release effectiveness leveraging data trends and metrics to improve the overall customer experience Support various tech initiative delivery by driving implementation planning support testing and go-to market planning and execution Coordinate project activities across associated project teams; track progress against established plans report results with project stakeholders Develop project communications including creation of status reports and summaries tracking escalations and resolutions of issues coordinating stakeholder meetings and updates and updating project and program plans Support project timelines clearly setting expectations and realigning expectations internally as priorities change

Description

Seeking a Technical Delivery Manager who will contribute to our client's success by managing and facilitating the product release process and execution across the Digital Platform Engineering (DPE) organization. This role also supports various tech initiative delivery within the DPE organization.
The successful candidate is someone who enjoys bringing definition to complex technology
projects and are skilled at navigating ambiguous new frontiers. This candidate has a technical background and attention to detail enable them to identify risks, drive development with predictability and challenge assumptions. Relationships and teamwork are important to how the candidate inspires and leads the teams to deliver their best work. This person is a team player that does what it takes; and also has an intolerance for mediocrity and are unafraid to take a stand on what you believe is right.

Responsibilities

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology or
• related field, or equivalent experience
• Technology producer, Technical delivery manager, IT project management delivery or
• program management office experience (5 years)
• Managing digital product or service delivery and release in an agile environment (3
• years)
• Able to work across disciplines for alignment on product delivery expectations
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills
• Experience working with distributed teams
• Leadership and Communication:
• Leads by example and builds teams with a confident and positive attitude, patience,
• honesty and integrity, and a strong sense of commitment, providing mentoring to team
• members
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Has the ability to know what is possible and what is not, and to know how to navigate
• project engagements efficiently and effectively
• Ability to engage in difficult conversations that result in positive, actionable outcomes
• Ability to navigate complex and diverse landscapes effectively
• Seeks and provides honest, transparent feedback
• Ability to lead high-performing project teams
• Ability to set expectations and hold individuals and team members accountable to their
• commitments
• Drives decision-making that favors compromise and alignment over consensus-building
• Excellent facilitation skills; ability to adapt approach and style to different types of
• engagements
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing
• Acumen and Learning Agility:
• Expert-level knowledge of standards and practices for IT project and program lifecycle
• management activities and deliverables
• Understanding of IT program and portfolio management practices.
• Clear understanding of project technical activities, including: (1) solution analysis and
• design; (2) enterprise, solution, and infrastructure architecture; (3) systems integration;
• (4)data conversion and migration; (5) environment management and build processes;
• and (6) deployment planning and execution.
• Expertise in productivity/collaboration tools, particularly Jira, confluence, ServiceNow
• Advanced skills in the MS Office Product Suite, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint