Release Manager
The Position:
The role holder will be
responsible for making new and changed services and features available for use
by defining a standardized process for planning, building, and testing the
release, scheduling the release, pushing the release, deploying the release,
providing early life support and closure of releases.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define
the standard process for planning, testing, scheduling, and deploying the
releases.
- Own
the responsibility of preparing a Release Plan. Coordinates with Change
Management team, Build team and other key stakeholders regarding the same.
- Assign
and track release activities with various teams.
- Packaging,
controlling, and integrating the release components as per the
dependencies identified.
- Coordinate
the release schedule and resources required both internally and from third
parties.
- Coordinate
with the Build team to build the release and produce the build document,
which will contain.
- Build,
installation and test plans, procedures, and scripts.
- Monitoring
and quality assurance of the release.
- Processes
and procedures for distributing, deploying, and installing the release
into the target environment.
- Release
unit roll-back procedures.
- Change
remediation steps in case of release failure.
- Ensure
that all mandatory tests are conducted, and all tests are successful as
per the success criteria before a release can be flagged off to production.
- Obtain
the approvals for downtime-related information wherever necessary in
advance and ensure that communications are send out to all stakeholders as
per the release plan.
- Identify
the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope
scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected.
- Lead
the Go-Live activities to deploy the releases successfully.
The Person
For the above position,
the successful applicant should have the following:
- Bachelor’s
degree in IT/Engineering.
- Professional
qualification in ITIL Foundation and Project Management.
- At
least 5 years’ experience in release management in a large environment
working multiple systems, with at least 4 years’ experience in application
support, and at least 3 years supervisory experience and IT service
processes management, and 2 years’ experience in project management.
How to Apply
The above position is
demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration
package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate
your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our
Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.
To be considered your
application must be received by Friday 24th February
2023
Qualified candidates with
a disability are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed
candidates will be contacted.
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