Senior Release Manager

Responsibilities

Kforce has a client in Beaverton, OR that is seeking a Senior Release Manager. Summary: This role will be an integral part of the team that enables the company to bring its world-class products and experiences to market. The Senior Release Manager will work across a number of capabilities to understand portfolio roadmaps, programs, and key value drops. Responsibilities:

• Driving effective release framework and governance with a continuous delivery mindset across multiple teams and geographies
• Manage all change activity from planning through testing, to deployment
• Develop risk management and contingency planning for releases of any size
• Work with Support and Operation teams to ensure operational readiness
• Communicate effectively at multiple levels within the organization through written and verbal communication, both formal and informal
• Drive to a global release cadence that defines the cycles, structures, and required oversight to deliver products and experiences to production
• Define and publish key metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness of releases as well as areas of improvement for the Release management framework
• Partner closely and continually with product, program, quality, engineering, support, and release teams to align on scope, release cadence, delivery and support requirements
• Partner with the business and IT stakeholders to drive release scheduling decisions
• Provide status reports to key internal/external stakeholders
• Manage go/no-go, checkpoint, and retrospective meetings with release stakeholders
• Partner with Global Technology teams to cultivate collaboration, alignment and integrated planning and execution across all functions
• Close partnership with the Portfolio, Product, Technology and Strategy functions
• Work closely to coordinate with other Technology teams on dependencies for cross-functional deployments
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field; 2 years of professional experience in lieu of a degree
• Functional expertise in driving change and delivering high quality results
• Experience with Commerce and Mobile Commerce platforms
• Demonstrable experience operating in a complex, federated global organization with a geographically dispersed team
• Experience improving CI/CD tools integration and release operations ensuring quality deployments
• Experience at developing risk management and contingency planning for production changes
• Successful track record of applying operational readiness techniques to complex feature implementations
• Successful track record of partnership across organizations to build trust and achieve shared goals
• Good communications and presentation skills
• Able to communicate sophisticated and technical issues effectively and concisely to leadership
• High professional standards and expectations for self and others
• Professional stature and gravitas to collaborate with and influence team members with credibility and confidence
• A deep understanding and practical application of standard release process(s), agile methodologies, and technical capabilities (including agile - lean, continuous delivery, SAFE, ITIL)
• Experience working with teams who use development and deployment automation tools in the software development and deployment lifecycle
• Strong relationship-building skills and experience working closely with leaders and cross-functional partners to deliver key strategic initiatives
  
  

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

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