- Develop and manage detailed release plans, schedules, and milestones for software deployments.
- Coordinate release activities across multiple teams, including development, QA, operations, risk and business stakeholders.
- Ensure all release deliverables meet quality standards and compliance requirements.
- Identify, document, and mitigate risks associated with software releases.
- Manage and communicate release status, issues, and changes to stakeholders.
- Oversee the execution of release processes, including code branching, merging, build management, and deployment.
- Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no-go meetings, and post-release retrospectives.
- Continuously improve release management processes, tools, and documentation.
- Maintain release documentation, including release notes, deployment guides, and rollback procedures.
- Support incident management and root cause analysis for release-related issues.
- Own Hypercare plan and activities including hypercare releases or on demand releases to manage high priority production issues
Shift Timings: 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Qualification:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering (preferably computer science) and/or masters degree in business
- At least one of the accreditations or working on Project Management Professional (PMP), or Six Sigma (Green or Black Belt)
- 5+ years of experience working within Project Management Office (PMO) and or strategy/consulting experience
- Technology Project Management experience with Azure DevOps / JIRA (or similar Software product development management tool)
- Proficiency with the Microsoft suite of applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, Project and other collaboration tools such as SharePoint and Teams
- Awareness of SSDLC
- Able to collaborate effectively as part of a global, remote team
- Ability to travel 10% - 20% both in the US / Global (including travel to Hyderabad, India)
- Strong analytical, consultative, quantitative, and project management skills
- Strong executive presence, excellent communication (verbal and written) and presentation skills with an aptitude for working as part of a global team
- Problem solving, critical thinking and conceptual thinking skills
- Ability to perform tasks with minimal supervision and manage multiple projects from start to finish
- Experience in driving cross-organizational initiatives
- A proven strategic thinker with the ability to contribute to the creation of business cases, and build roadmaps under the guidance of a program leader.
- Awareness of SOC 2 standards / Data Privacy standards (GDPR, etc.)
- Experience of working in a highly regulated technology environment