Integration and Deployment Manager (m/w)

For a client in the telecommunication industry we are currently looking for an Integration & Deployment manager.

Responsibilities:

- Manage a support team that performs most of the day-to-day work
- Assist the Program Manager and the development team members in planning each release
- Ensure that the organization's release controls are documented and well understood by development Teams and Program Support Teams
- Ensure that the architecture and infrastructure on which the application will be deployed are robust and stable
- Ensure that a detailed deployment plan has been documented along with a backout plan should anything go wrong during deployment
- Coordinate with the Marketing Department and the program to ensure that sanctioned communications to all stakeholders have been properly prepared and reviewed
- Ensure the product has been correctly and completely integrated across the program
- Validate that the product has been correctly packaged before deployment and ensure that all release controls have been satisfied
- Work with the Marketing Department or IT Operations to deploy the product successfully
- Release the pre-planned communications about the product to all stakeholders
- Conduct a release retrospective with all the development team members that participated in the program to improve the release process and increase program productivity and product quality

Competencies:

- Strong technical leadership abilities
- Excellent understanding of product release methodologies (including familiarity with ITIL's Release and Deployment Management process)
- Strong system integration experience
- Strong experience planning the development and delivery of complex software products
- Good understanding of product architecture and infrastructure components
- Good understanding of the marketing function
- Political acumen

Languages: English (must have), German (Nice to have)