RELEASE MANAGER

CHARLOTTE ONLY - Hybrid 3x per week onsite in Charlotte

18 Month Contract

1 step interviews!

Description:

• Enterprise Risk & Finance Technology’s Global Risk Analytics team is searching for a talented, seasoned and highly motivated Release Manager. Programs focus on building the next generation model development and execution platform including data sourcing. This platform will leverage a host of interesting technologies including Spark and Hadoop and utilize a unique, user-configurable, workflow-driven, model execution approach. Programs include data sourcing as well migration of models away from existing platforms to the target platform. This is a multiyear effort in a business critical domain. Global Risk Analytics (GRA) is responsible for developing analytics to support risk modeling activities across all lines of business at the Bank. Uses include CCAR, CECL, IFRS 9 and other regulatory and management reports.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Manage activities for building and maintaining software releases for their promotion into preproduction and production environments adhering to Bank of America’s Enterprise Change Management Standards.
• Coordinate with large multi-discipline teams in a matrix management organization to ensure execution of the system development life cycle (SDLC/ Scrum) have been followed to allow release into production.
• Improve communication and transparency within each release, providing a single-point-of-contact for various release stakeholders across the business and technology
• Assist in creating and managing an integrated release plan with acceptance and sign off from all impacted areas for each release by coordinating with development , project management, production support , and deployment management teams.
• Create and maintain a Release Calendar and cadence of activities for Project Teams to use in planning their development and testing activities.
• Manage release scope through defined criteria for adding or removing items (changes) to or from a release
• Proactively provide release health status, by identifying risks and obstacles that may impact release delivery; escalate and discuss with appropriate team members, define remediation activities and drive resolution
• Provide enhanced compliance and regulatory evidentiary controls throughout the SDLC; complete documentation to meet audit requirements

Required Skills and Experience

• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, including acting through influence, negotiation and mediation across organizational boundaries
• Experience with project and scope tracking tools, especially Atlassian JIRA
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially MS Excel
• Experience with project and scope tracking tools, especially Atlassian JIRA
• Having strong experience in Unix scripting
• Experience with automated configuration management and code management systems like BitBucket/GITHUB/XLR

Desired Skills and Experience we are Looking For:

• Prior Application governance experience will be an added advantage.
• Prior experience on BMC Remedy tool.
• High level understanding of BAC Enterprise Change Standards is a plus
• Having prior Application governance experience will be an added advantage.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
• Strong knowledge of testing, testing automation, and defect tracking tools/ methodologies

Skills:

Release management, Devops, Agile, Project management, Release planning, Change management, Jira

Top Skills Details:

Release management,Devops,Agile,Project management,Release planning,Change management

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Release Manager

Experience Level:

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.