Project Management- Release

1 week ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada AstraNorth Full time $80,000 - $120,000 per year

Soft Skills

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Managing crucial conversations

  • Influencing and Leadership skills

  • Project management skills with knowledge of presentation

  • Problem-solving and analytics skills

  • Team building and time management skills

  • Collaborative spirit

Technical Skills

  • 7 years of experience in Change Management, Release management, code promotion and requirements management

  • B.S. in Computer Science or an equivalent degree

  • Project management experience, process mapping and artifact creation such as workflows

  • Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CDCI) pipelines

  • Experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies including Scrum, Waterfall, or Kanban

  • Expert knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle

  • Team management skills

  • Experience in the use of Jira, Git, and Visual Studio Release Management

  • Good understanding of application infrastructure, system architecture, and operating system

  • ITIL V3 certification

Domain Knowledge

  • Assist the Change Management managers in reviewing and administration of the GF CAB meetings

  • Assist various application teams in planning the release of project deliverables and release life cycle

  • Communicate the overall release schedule, inter-dependencies, and necessary coordination between different teams

  • Communicate with release managers from different IT departments

  • Coordinate the release schedule and resources required depending upon the third-party applications, defect backlogs, planned releases, and infrastructure updates

  • Identify the risks that can delay the release

  • Assist the application teams in managing those risks ensuring mitigation while maintaining the scope scheduled, and quality of the release are not affected

  • Publish weekly updates on the release activities

  • Track the progress and find issues, if any

  • Always work to improve the process of managing releases

  • Schedule the release readiness reviews before deployment and milestone reviews after each release

  • Schedule the CAB meetings to discuss the release schedules with the application teams and identify roadblocks

  • Ensure the allocation of Release Engineers to every release

  • Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the software successfully

  • Team up with relevant development teams responsible for building the automation tools used to develop and deploy the software

  • Maintain documentation related to procedures on build and release, various notification lists, and dependencies

  • Make improvements in the methodologies used for configuration management and development of software that helps to find ways to use in configuration management

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON

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