Important information about this role:

• We’re better together! This role is fully on-site at our Berkeley Heights offices in NJ. All 5 days in the office for the first 90 days and on-site Monday through Thursday after that.

• In order to be considered, you must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without need for visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

• This is a full-time, direct-hire role, meaning NO C2C/C2H and NO REMOTE!

What does a great Enterprise Release Manager do?

A great Release Manager owns the Release Management lifecycle, including scheduling, coordinating & facilitating and the overall management of the enterprise release for multiple applications across various portfolios. You will be responsible for implementing and managing release processes for code through development, test, and production environments, while working collaboratively with all participants in agile software development projects and is supportive of developers and testers as they set up their build dev/test environments.

You will demonstrate strong leadership and impeccable communication skills to coordinate cross-functional teamwork towards task completion. You may work independently or as part of a team on complex projects – hence you will be highly organized & collaborative across multiple business groups and technical teams. Your high EQ (Emotional Intelligence) and strong influencing skills will be important to make critical and thoughtful decisions

What you will do:

• Manage, facilitate and coordinate enterprise-wide release schedules and activities supporting the release (artifacts, readiness check lists, deployment/implementation plans, release install features, run books, build out release calendars).

• Facilitate all release meetings and collaborate with application development teams, project managers, technology leaders, vendors, product partners and stakeholders to ensure successful deployment events (including readiness reviews, technology & business go/no go, root cause analysis).

• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule & quality.

• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams in various locations and time-zones.

• Measure and monitor progress, providing weekly/monthly release reporting, to ensure releases are delivered on-time, within budget.

• Support environment management and monthly release installs on weekends and overnight.

• Support and remediate Audit findings.

What you will need to have:

• BS Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or equivalent work experience.

• 8 to 10 years of experience leading and managing large release implementations in information systems at enterprise level at large organizations.

• 5+ years of experience working across different business units with multiple products, processes, controls and governance.

• 2+ year experience in working with development and functional teams to gather all deployment changes and performed post/pre deployment activities.

• Experience in Agile software development practices and has strong working understanding of agile development tools such as Jira, Confluence and VersionOne.

• Strong understanding of value stream management practices and flow.

• Systems thinking and a continuous improvement mindset is critical.

• Has a working understanding of environment management and code promotion strategies.

What would be great to have:

• 2 to 3 years of experience with change management and IT Audit.

• Project Management experience and financial acumen.

• Understand DevOps, CI/CD pipeline, code branching & merges.

• Experience managing small to mid-sized teams.

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