Release Manager

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Industry: banking

Location: Warsaw/Gdynia/Gdańsk (hybrid work model - once a week in the office)

Rate: up to 170 PLN/h net+VAT

Form of cooperation: B2B

Start: ASAP

Required languages: English&Polish

ROLE DESCRIPTION:

As a Release Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that new releases to our payment technology platforms and applications (Payment Data initiatives) are planned and executed efficiently, with the highest quality for customers and operations, and in compliance with our standards. You will be working with many different stakeholders such as other Release managers, Test managers, Product owners, Execution leads, Scrum Masters, Operations teams etc, in order to secure a safe and successful delivery.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinating, planning and maintaining the release roadmap for one or more applications.
• Release and deployment planning and coordination of multiple parallel releases.
• Planning release go live and post-go-live activities.
• Planning, coordinating and tracking change activities throughout the release process.
• Leading release decision meetings to secure stakeholder approval for each release milestone.
• Planning and setting up handover sessions from development teams to operations teams.
• Increasing release quality and efficiency by integrating new techniques, automation capabilities, and DevOps ways of working to release orchestration.

REQUIREMENTS:

• IT project management and planning skills (7+ years).
• Bachelors/Master's degree in IT or related disciplines.
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English.
• Previous experience from release or deployment management activities (preferably from the banking sector).
• Experience working with incident, problem, and change management tools and processes under ITIL framework.
• Confident working with Project Management tools. (Jira, Confluence).
• Experience in working with continuous integration and continuous deployment practices.
• Experience with working on the edge of IT and business, with solid understanding of business aspects.
• Basic understanding of DevOps ways of working.
• Have extraordinary communication skills and fundamental technical knowledge to communicate with the development team(s) and create & validate deployment runbooks in collaboration with the team.
• Have the passion to work with industry-leading Release Orchestration tools to create automated release pipelines with the help of technical experts.
• Flexibility: able to occasionally work paid evenings and weekends for the implementation of events.
• Practical understanding of Agile, Scrum, SAFe methodologies.