Sr. Release Engineer
A leading FinTech company is seeking a Sr. Release Engineer for a 6+ month contract to hire role.
Description & Requirements
The client delivers technology solutions that are digitally transforming and empowering community banks and credit unions to provide enhanced and streamlined user experiences to their customers and members. Our best-in-class products are just the start as we lay the groundwork for the future of digital banking and payments.
A Release Coordinator is responsible for owning the planning and coordination of all phases and activities involved in the release of a system or system update into the production environment. Their role facilitates release meetings, ensures release readiness, and develops release deployment plans based on input from multiple stakeholders within various teams.They would identify priorities, conflicts, dependencies, and risks for the release. Perhaps more importantly, the Release Coordinator ensures that plans are in place to mitigate those risks.
A Release Coordinator confirms the release deployment plan is followed and that all release deliverables (usually in the form of Release Activities or entry/exit criterion) have been completed inline with the release dates and deadlines. Typically, we would expect to see release notes, approvals, communications, contact lists and pre and post-release verification activities also managed by the Release Coordinator.
This position is fully remote, working hours would flexibly be 8-5 EST.
What you"ll be responsible for:
Facilitates release planning meetings with key stakeholders (Devops and release teams) and development teams to identify proper sequencing of release packages. Ensures that issues and risks are identified, understood, and dealt with in a manner that mitigates risk to scope and schedule.Works with Infrastructure and Database teams to mitigate risks associated with downtime and long-running scripts/processes.
Defines and documents the release recommendation for each release and/or change to production. Includes release scope, schedule, deliverables, and roll back plan. Reviews release recommendation with key stakeholders.Review Release Notes for accuracy and completeness. Documents and communicates all changes for a release in release notes which are published to both the internal team and the client.
Attends change management such as CABs and deployment planning meetings to collect data and information pertaining to the release.
Pursues IT and Project compliance with release acceptance criteria.
Provides outage information and fills out service level agreement blackout request.
Supports release execution by monitoring of each phase of the release. Validates the release as it progresses thru various release gates and test phases, alerts appropriate stakeholders of any errors or issues that need to be addressed.
Verifies capture of customer acceptance/signoff on deliverables. Post-production validation: was it deployed correctly, and did it meet acceptance criteria?
Facilitates Release Retro sessions within days after a release is completed. Assigns action items with owners and timeline commitments to resolve. (Release Issue Tracker Items)
Facilitates Incident Retro sessions withing 5 days of incident. Assigns action items with owners and timeline commitments to resolve. (Incident/Watch Items)
May perform other job duties as assigned.
What you"ll need to have: Six years of experience in release management with Agile methodology
Experience with project management tools - for example Azure DevOps for managing and tracking work items.
What would be nice for you to have: Bachelor"s degree
Certified Scrum Master or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or RTE Release Train Engineer
Ability to Communication and Collaborate up, down, and across - with Leadership, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Software Engineers, Application Support Engineers, and Release Engineers.Good Understanding of SDLC and Release Processes with Agile Methodology.