Project Management- Release & Change management

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