Release Manager

Summary

Join Dev Technology Group as a Release Manager and contribute to mission-critical systems for a federal government client. You will coordinate and deliver releases across various environments, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders. This role requires strong communication, Agile experience, and the ability to manage complex projects in a deadline-driven setting. A Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience or 10+ years of experience without a degree is required. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication and active listening skills, and the ability to explain technical issues to non-technical audiences. Dev Technology offers a variety of benefits, including flexible time off, remote work options, career development opportunities, and comprehensive health insurance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with eight (8) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment OR No Bachelor’s Degree with ten (10) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment
• Ability to work in a demanding and deadline-driven environment
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Agile development experience
• Excellent active listening skills
• Ability to discuss technical issues with non-technical, executive-level government officials

Responsibilities

• Documenting risk to delivery timelines and communicating impacts to schedule immediately to all stakeholders (ITPMs, Product Owners, User Testers, and development teams)
• Proposing and executing mitigation plans to minimize performance and/or delivery schedule impacts
• Collaborating with release managers from the government agency, external stakeholders and organizations, and internal program stakeholders, to identify dependencies and impacts to program release schedules
• Working with the Requirements Team and UAT testers from the Business to communicate development completion dates and testing schedules
• Working with the Quality Assurance Automation Engineer Team Lead, Scrum Masters, Lead Software Security Developer, POAM Project Manager, and Cloud Architect/Engineers to develop release plans, deploy release plan bug fixes, and address Root Cause Analysis (RCAs)

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification
• Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Creating guidelines to train team members
• Using Confluence or similar
• Communicating key project commitments, plans, changes, and requirements to teams
• Measuring and monitoring the progress of releases after deployment
• Planning the release of project deliverables
• Managing risks that may affect release scope
• Constructing product roadmaps in a requirements tool (such as Jira) for each project to have a centralized view of all releases
• Making improvements to configuration management methodologies
• Collecting feedback from different teams and customers for review
• Maintaining documents related to procedures on build and release
• Ensuring releases meet acceptance criteria as stated in the requirements
• Providing weekly updates on release activities, and resolving issues regarding release quality and schedule
• Determining how third-party applications, infrastructure updates, and defect backlogs affect releases
• Identifying project dependencies that could alter the course of the release
• And with configuration management including configuration identification, change control, configuration status accounting, configuration audits, and configuration documentation

Benefits

• Generous and flexible time-off policy
• Flexible work schedules and telework options, including remote work availability for eligible projects
• Career development opportunities including a mentorship program, technical and management training through Dev University, hands-on learning through DevLab, tuition reimbursement, and paid training opportunities
• Industry-leading benefits including a choice of two health plans that include dental and vision, flexible spending account, commuter benefits, life insurance, and more
• 401K matching with a 5% matching contribution
• Regular team and company social events including our annual party, happy hours, fitness challenges, and more
• A focus on community engagement including company wide support activities, employer match for donations, and time off for volunteer efforts