IT Release Manager - CSM Preferred

IT RELEASE MANAGER PORTLAND, OR 12 MONTH CONTRACT

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We are seeking an experienced Release Manager/Environment Coordinator to organize, direct, and manage activities for building and maintaining the environments necessary to ensure successful software releases to both the non-production and production environments. The Release Manager/ENV may facilitate large multidiscipline releases in a Matrix management organization. Candidate directs activities to ensure the appropriate environments meet quality standards and readiness objectives within defined time and budget targets.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Provides direction, planning, coordination, and reporting for overall release environment activities related to the Enterprise IT Application Group.
- Coordinates the cross-organization and cross-platform resources needed to implement the release, facilitates the release meetings, and develops and tracks release activities based on the schedule.
- Identifies release impacts to ensure that these are planned into the release plans.
- Maintains a cross-platform release window calendar.
- Attends Scrum daily stand-ups and reports on release progress and provides release guidance as needed.
- Reviews and provides guidance for Test Plans, Test Summary, and Technical Release Plans.
- Organizes and facilitates release retrospectives.
- Fosters transparency and feedback by raising impediments and by presenting information using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Promotes continuous improvement.
- Coaches/trains Scrum teams on the effective use of Release planning.
- Collate and track all environment needs: Maximo, Logica, and External.
- Work closely with Technical Architecture Group to determine environment specifications.
- Coordinate environment activities with Deployment, Development, and Test Teams.
- Work closely with Release Management Lead and Release Manager to ensure environment readiness for build releases and smoke tests.
- Define and gather acceptance of environment approach and schedule.
- Create detailed schedule for environment management (planning and roll-out).
- Facilitate entry of environment-related tasks into pertinent release and project schedules.
- Define and foster approach for handling environment conflicts across various teams.
- Coordinate environment and/or data refreshes, roll-backs, etc.
- Manage impacts to environments due to schedule or scope shift.
- Communicate, resolve, and escalate issues.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- 7- 10 years relevant experience in a software development or delivery organization
- 1+ years experience as a Full time Release Manager in the Scrum/Agile environment
- Strong project management skills
- CSM certification or through understanding of Scrum and Agile principles, values, and practices
- Demonstrated commitment to mentoring, coaching, and leadership
- Experience delivering one or more products through all phases of the SDLC
- Very strong communication, collaboration, feedback, and facilitation skills
- Demonstrated mature judgment in a leadership role
- Knowledge of testing and defect tracking tools and excellent presentation and communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem resolution skills
- Capability to develop and maintain an effective network of relationships with people inside and outside the development and testing groups

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience leading project teams
- Experience and/or knowledge of Maximo and Logica software
- Technical background in information technology management and strong process knowledge of System Development Life Cycles

*CompuCom supports Employment Equity and Diversity*Dallas-based CompuCom Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of end-user enablement, service experience management, and cloud technology services to Fortune 1000 companies. CompuCom partners with enterprises to develop smarter ways they can work, grow and produce value for their business. Founded in 1987, privately held CompuCom has approximately 11,500 associates and supports more than 4 million end users in North America.