Roles and Responsibilities

• Maintain the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.
• Work together with the development team in forward planning of releases based on predefined windows and regular deployment cycles.
• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality.
• Work with developers to understand impacts of branches for code merges.
• Perform code merging; build generation, coordination of pre-production verification (with development team) and coordinate the production release.
• Document and streamline the Operation team processes and Control.
• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business, as required.
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists.
• Create and circulate the post-deployment report, detailing all the projects, changes, enhancements and fixes included in the latest release
• Ensure that post-release tasks are followed up by MiDC, business analysts or the in-county teams, as needed.
• Maintain a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification distribution lists.
• Negotiate, plan and manage ad-hoc releases.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5-8 years of previous release and/or project management experience (solid understanding of project management principles preferred).
• Develops scripts and automation tools used to build, integrate and deploy software releases to various platforms.
• Research new software developments, configuration management methodologies and technologies, analyzing their application and suitability for current configuration management needs.
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process.
• Jira and Confluence administration
• Setup and Develop CICD
• Develop and maintain IT Operation Practice
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle
• Experience with Web Service and ESBs products (Oracle SOA Suite, BEA AquaLogic/WLI, IBM WebSphere, Axis, JAX-WS, etc.)