Job Summary
This role focuses on planning, coordinating and ensuring timely notifications for software releases in alignment with organizational strategy and goals. You will work closely with cross-functional teams throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure high-quality and timely releases.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Plan and coordinate software releases to meet business objectives.
2. Collaborate with development, quality assurance, operations, and change management teams to ensure readiness and quality.
3. Monitor and communicate release progress, identify risks, and escalate issues as needed.
4. Facilitate release meetings and maintain release calendars.
5. Review testing outcomes and work with quality assurance to address defects and improvement opportunities.
6. Develop and maintain release documentation, including release notes and rollback plans.
7. Produce reports and metrics on release performance and communicate findings to leadership.
8. Ensure compliance with our company's release management policies and best practices.
9. Support continuous improvement initiatives for release processes.
Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field preferred.
* 4+ years of experience in release coordination, change management or related IT governance roles.
* Familiarity with SDLC processes and testing practices.
* Strong organizational and communication skills; ability to manage multiple priorities.
* Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow or similar for tracking and documentation.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
* Ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.
* Understanding of release governance, risk management and quality assurance principles.
* Analytical skills to interpret metrics and identify process improvements.
* Comfortable working in Agile or iterative development environments.
Benefits:
* Home office allowance.
* Meal/food allowance.
* Annual bonus.
* Health/dental plan.