Release Manager V

Title: Release Manager V
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Mountain View, CA

Job Summary: Ensure that the various component projects of a particular software release meet customer needs and are brought together and released on time with high quality, and the overall release reflects the best choices amount scope, costs, and time for the company.
 
Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform with project managers, development teams and system administrators for development, evaluation, test and launch phases of software development life cycle.
• Configure and release software application updates to QA along with Production environments.
• Collect and provide ongoing project feedback to change management organization.
• Recommend process improvements alternative to roll out tools and processes.
• Develop apt reporting tools and information depository to measure conformance to entire processes and utilization of tools through monthly metrics.
• Head and direct collaborative efforts of release and developed management standards.
• Define, rollout and on-going project management for professional provided services.
• Identify new tools and technologies to develop release streams and builds.
• Assist Configuration Management processes to be more reliable, efficient and cost effective.
• Perform routine project activities required to manage release by test production and environments.
• Manage and comply release schedule and main release milestones throughout programs.
• Search and report product release dependencies throughout projects.
• Help cross-program planning to oversee dependencies and solve conflicts.
• Lead impact evaluation on basis of project date changes and convey results.
• Conduct and influence actively program development, management, testing along with operations on release and development processes.
• Responsible for leading all release-related matters which span across multiple projects while handling changing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Support global Bixby releases for all device targets and locales working with DevOps and global release management team
• Build and track processes to ensure releases are efficient and effective in accordance to development schedule

Skills:

• Self-motivated individual with the ability to thrive in a team-based or independent environment.
• Detail-oriented with strong organization skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Limited supervision and the exercise of discretion.
• Well-versed in understanding software product development, and release processes for complex large-scale software
• Program management background with accountability for quality and product release.
• Release Management and/or background in testing and/or prior experience in product management.
• Experience in various agile and hybrid methodologies and continuous integration.
• Experience building processes, project management, and release schedules on a global scale.
• PMP Certification

Education:

• 10+ years of experience working closely with engineering teams
• 10+ years of release management experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience
• MS in related Engineering discipline, MBA a plus

 

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's pay range is $125.00/hr – $130.00/hr.