Release Manager

Salary: 800 - 1000 PLN/MD on B2B

Work model: hybrid from Tricity (1 day in the office per week)

 

Why choose this offer?

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• You can expect a flexible work organization
• The international work environment will give you the opportunity to interact with the English language on a daily basis
• Scandinavian organizational culture will provide you with work-life balance, you will gain time for additional training (financed by Jit)
• The Jit community will bring you a nice time during regular integration meetings

 

Project

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We're looking an experienced Release Manager to join our client's team. As a Release Manager you will be responsible for ensuring that new releases to client's technology platforms and applications are planned and executed efficiently, with the highest quality for customers and operations, and in compliance with client's standards. You will be working with many different stakeholders such as other release managers, Test managers, Product owners, Execution leads, Scrum Masters, Operations teams etc, in order to secure a safe and successful delivery. Youll join a motivated, energetic and international team, where you will find fellow release & rollout managers. A great occasion to learn from them and for the team to learn from you!

 

Expected competences and knowledge

• Bachelors/Master's degree in IT or related disciplines
• IT project management and planning skills (5+ years)
• Excellent networking and interpersonal skills
• Are an analytical person with great coordination and planning skills
• Pay attention to details, with the ability to keep an overview to deliver your commitments and dependencies to others
• Accountability, proactivity, and ability to quickly adapt and respond to change
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills
• Flexibility: able to work extra paid evenings and weekends for the implementation of events
• Practical understanding of Agile, Scrum, SAFe methodologies
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English
• Technical mindset
• Previous experience from release or deployment management activities (preferably from the banking sector)
• Experience working with incident, problem and change management tools and processes under ITIL framework 
• Confident working with Project Management tools (Jira,Confluence)
• Experience working with continuous integration and continuous deployment practices
• Basic understanding of DevOps ways of working
• Have great communication skills and fundamental technical knowledge in order to communicate with the development team(s) and create & validate deployment runbooks in collaboration with the team
• Have the passion to work with industry-leading Release Orchestration tool to create automated release pipelines with the help of technical experts

 

Responsibilities you'll have

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• Coordinating, planning and maintaining the release roadmap for one or more applications
• Release and deployment planning and coordination of multiple parallel releases
• Planning release go live and post-go-live activities
• Planning, coordinating and tracking change activities throughout the release process
• Leading release decision meetings to secure stakeholder approval for each release milestone
• Planning and setting up handover sessions from development teams to operations teams
• Increasing release quality and efficiency by integrating new techniques, automation capabilities, and DevOps ways of working to release orchestration

 

Client – why choose this particular client from the Jit portfolio?

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Jit Team has had an over-decade-long relationship with the leading financial group in the Nordic countries, and we are privileged to be our client's premier partner in Poland. At present, over 200 Jit personnel are engaged in the completion of more than 60 projects for this Norwegian major provider of financial services with a global presence and a strong focus on modern technology. Our customer's work atmosphere is epitomized by the Scandinavian culture, which is conducive to people who place emphasis on work-life balance and feedback culture. Furthermore, all projects are executed in international teams, giving constant exposure to the English language. 

 

About Jit Team

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The Human factor of IT - it's not just a slogan, it's a philosophy. The foundation of Jit Team is people, which is why we prioritise you. We employ over 500 experienced experts. We create highly specialised teams for clients from all over the world. We offer team members developmental projects, a wide range of benefits and a proprietary professional development programme.

Behind our maxim are also charitable and educational activities. We support pupils and students by donating learning equipment. We offer internships to help launch careers in IT. We support water rescuers and hospitals by providing the necessary equipment. We are a Polish company and we share what we have achieved over 14 years of activity. By supporting indigenous initiatives, we ensure the circulation of good energy.