Job Description

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
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON