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has a client in San Francisco, CA that is seeking a Release Manager.

Summary: We are looking for a mid-level Release Manager with an engineering background for their Ecommerce team. This candidate will build and manage various IT applications release and production schedules, lead merge strategies and align cross-channel projects.

Duties:

Managing the various schedules - release, production changes, project timelines, etc.

Providing daily metrics/status for environment and project health (Dashboards or other KPI delivery methods)

Verifying gate completion for projects with PCI/Sox implications (checklist)

Coordinating projects into existing test environments/maintaining environment schedules

Building Release schedules and deployment plans to manager and implement a release

Active management of issues queue from opened to closed

Coordinating with project/application and TDS to ensure 3rd party integrations are configured and tested according to project/release schedules

Working with projects, engineering and QA to define upcoming environment requirements and specifications

Determining and coordinating data requirements and dependencies for upcoming projects

Works on moderately complex projects with some guidance from more senior staff members on complex projects

Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions

Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise

Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action

Works with team to identify and address issues and risks

Timely escalation of critical issues/risks to program manager and management

Provides recommendations to management based on qualitative analysis of the issue

Frequently interacts with functional peers and supervisors, normally involving matters within the department, or internal customers

Required Skills : * 5 years of experience in Deployment/Release Management in an enterprise environment with a background in release engineering * Deployment - day to day release management: managing all release activities across many systems/applications; This includes upfront planning for releases, working with product/engineering, working with third party vendors, and ultimately putting software into the production system; Experience executing a plan, managing change requests, managing issues that come up, managing dependencies, etc. * Process - change management; looking for this person to come in, evaluate the environment, and define/improve/optimize the release process; This may include documentation, process improvement, implementing best practices, understanding what the problems are, and what is the journey to get to the next evolution, implement post-mortems, etc. * Communication - leading release discussion with leadership (need to be comfortable going between tech/non-tech team members), consolidating efforts with processes * Technical background - comfortable working with the engineering team, good understanding of SDLC * Understand the dynamics of retail environment and fast moving nature of the industry * Experience working with both onshore and offshore teams * Development cycle is pretty aggressive, releases are every 2 weeks, managing 2-3 releases in parallel (different stages) * Independent worker, self-starter, self-sufficient

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Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No

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