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Minimum years of experience*: 6+

Responsibilities you would expect the Subcon to shoulder and execute*:

• Work with globally distributed Release Management & Product teams to deliver artifacts to production for the systems (Store POS, online, Distribution centers, planning systems Infrastructure Network and Datacenters etc.)
• Manage a distributed team of delivery engineers during change windows to ensure that the systems are available as scheduled at the end of the change window
• Perform triage and resolution of delivery issues, work closely with operations and engineering teams to resolve delivery errors, including Root Cause Analysis
• Identify and implement delivery process improvements using continuous improvement
• Work with the platform engineering team to improve the reliability and performance of test and build processes
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations
• Execute Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans
• Weekly Release Reporting & Metrics
• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required
• Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities
• Work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges
• Maintains the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process
• Lead and co - ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.

Qualifications:

• 5+ YEARS EXPERIENCE IN AGILE SOFTWARE DELIVERY
• 2-6 YEARS OF PREVIOUS RELEASE AND/OR PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE, (SOLID UNDERSTANDING OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES PREFERRED)
• Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Ability to remain calm and lead a delivery team in a high stakes/high pressure environment
• Demonstrated ability to influence a large organization and work as part of a distributed team
• Demonstrated ability to be successful in a metrics driven continuous improvement work environment
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion

Interview Process (Is face to face required?) No

Does this position require Visa independent candidates only? Yes