Release Manager

Salary: 900-1100PLN/day on B2B

Work model: elastic hybrid from Gdynia / Gdańsk (at least 3 days per week from the office)

Why choose this offer?

• You can expect a flexible work organization
• The international work environment will give you the opportunity to interact with the English language on a daily basis
• Scandinavian organizational culture will provide you with work-life balance, you will gain time for additional training (financed by Jit)
• The Jit community will bring you a nice time during regular integration meetings

Project

You will join the release management team of our financial sector client, responsible for ensuring that new releases to technology platforms and applications are planned and executed efficiently, with the highest quality for customers and operations, and in compliance with internal standards. You will work in a motivated, energetic, and international environment together with other release and rollout managers, collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure safe and successful deliveries.

Expected competences and knowledge

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT or a related discipline
• Over 5 years of experience in IT project management and planning
• Previous experience in release or deployment management activities, preferably within the banking sector
• Experience working with incident, problem, and change management processes and tools under the ITIL framework
• Practical understanding of Agile, Scrum, and SAFe methodologies
• Experience working with CI/CD practices
• Confident use of project management tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Basic understanding of DevOps ways of working
• Ability to communicate with development teams and create and validate deployment runbooks
• Passion for working with release orchestration tools and automated release pipelines
• Excellent communication, networking, and stakeholder management skills
• Strong analytical, coordination, and planning abilities
• Attention to detail with the ability to manage dependencies and commitments
• Accountability, proactivity, and adaptability to change
• Flexibility to work paid evenings and weekends during implementation events
• Highly proficient spoken and written English
• Technical mindset

Nice to have

• Experience with release and deployment automation activities

Responsibilities you'll have

• Coordinating, planning, and maintaining the release roadmap for one or more applications
• Planning and coordinating release and deployment activities, including 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 release milestones
• Planning and setting up handover sessions from development teams to operations teams
• Increasing release quality and efficiency by integrating automation capabilities and DevOps ways of working into release orchestration

Client – why choose this particular client from the Jit portfolio?

Jit Team has had an over-decade-long relationship with the leading financial group in the Nordic countries, and we are privileged to be our client's premier partner in Poland. At present, over 200 Jit personnel are engaged in the completion of more than 60 projects for this Norwegian major provider of financial services with a global presence and a strong focus on modern technology. Our customer's work atmosphere is epitomized by the Scandinavian culture, which is conducive to people who place emphasis on work-life balance and feedback culture. Furthermore, all projects are executed in international teams, giving constant exposure to the English language. 

About Jit Team

The Human factor of IT - it's not just a slogan, it's a philosophy. The foundation of Jit Team is people, which is why we prioritise you. We employ over 700 experienced experts. We create highly specialised teams for clients from all over the world. We offer team members developmental projects, a wide range of benefits and a proprietary professional development programme.

Behind our maxim are also charitable and educational activities. We support pupils and students by donating learning equipment. We offer internships to help launch careers in IT. We support water rescuers and hospitals by providing the necessary equipment. We are a Polish company and we share what we have achieved over 15 years of activity. By supporting indigenous initiatives, we ensure the circulation of good energy.