Release Manager

Description

Come join an exciting team within Global Information Security (GIS). Cyber Security Technology (CST) is a globally distributed team responsible for cyber security innovation and architecture, engineering, solutions and capabilities development, cyber resiliency, access management engineering, data strategy, deployment maintenance, technical project management and information technology security control support. This role is a servant leader, who is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics/features and the value delivered by a smaller Agile Release Train (ART). Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating the ART ceremonies, managing dependencies across teams in the ART, and providing visibility into the health of epic/feature delivery and the overall program increment. This role ensures impediments to epic/feature delivery are resolved quickly and protects the teams from outside disruptions to delivery. Promotes and coaches the Agile mindset and principles, empowering individual teams to become self-managing and fulfill their cross-functional potential.

Skills

Release management, Agile, Jira, Release coordination, Release planning, Change management, Software release management

Top Skills Details

Release management,Agile,Jira,Release coordination

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Job Responsibilities: • Guide and coach the teams on the Agile Release Train on Scrum practices and develop their understanding of Agile principles. • Define, schedule, and coordinate Release trains. • Coordinate and facilitate ART ceremonies (for example, Backlog Refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Sync or PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums), System Demos, and Retrospective. • In collaboration with the Product Manager, ensure the program has a healthy product/program backlog. • Ensure that Releases follow Enterprise change policies and guidelines. • Facilitate dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the ART. • Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments. • Responsible for providing status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans/delivery/timelines/impediments to stakeholders and leadership. • Ensure Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART. • Measure ART delivery, maturity, and performance and review the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities. • Capture data to help determine/track product funding and resource acquisition needs.

Experience Level

Expert Level