Lead Release Manager - Trenton, United States - defi AUTO LLC

Description

defi SOLUTIONS partners with captives, banks, credit unions, and finance companies of all types and sizes to allow lenders to focus and transform their operations.

The company's comprehensive soute of originations, servicing a, and analytics solutions together with technology-enabled processing services creates a flexible, configurable, and scalable platform that addresses lenders and borrowers ever-evolving needs.

As a Senior Release Manager within defi SOLUTIONS Technical Operations Organization, you will serve as the primary point of contact for software releases, ensuring they are delivered on time and with high quality.

You will also be responsible for driving the resolution of risks and issues identified by project teams participating in the release and ensuring that senior management has visibility into the trade-offs associated with every decision made.

The role also calls for production and synthesizing of release related metrics, leading the defined post implementation review and lessons learned process.

You should exercise thought leadership in DevOps principles and surface insights into our value stream as it relates to software releases.

You should advocate and drive automation of our SDLC towards one piece flow while still meeting industry compliance standards and controls.

This is a great opportunity to bolster your existing skills and demonstrate a command and presence within the business by delivering value with everything you do.

• Forward plan the release windows and cycles across the defi SOLUTIONS portfolio
• Manage risks and resolve issues that impact release scope, schedule and quality
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure releases are delivered on time and within budget and they meet or exceed expectations
• Analyze the software delivery pipeline to identify waste and improve throughput
• Communicate all key release deliverables, commitment and change requests
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations
• Conduct release Readiness Reviews, Milestone Reviews, and business Go/No-Go Reviews
• Produce Deployment Runbooks and Implementation Plans
• Deliver weekly Release Management Reporting
• Work with DevOps Engineers to understand our branching strategy and code merges
• Maintain the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across all key partners and vendors
• Oversee and optimize defi's change management framework and ensure high quality change records
• Drive continuous improvement with the Release Management process
• Lead post implementation reviews and drive for results
• Demonstrate the ability to coordinate crossfunctional work teams toward task completion
• Leverage existing knowledge and familiarity with industry standard tools used to deliver quality services to internal and external clients
• Execute effective decision making, we are analysis, deductive reasoning aid in supporting productive decisions based upon informed judgment new line deliver quality and everything you do and meet or exceed commitments with internal and external clients
• Strive continuously to identify areas for increased efficiency process improvements and support proactivity in delivering high quality results
• Be a change agent and thought leader
• Performs other duties as required
• The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature of the job, and should not be construed as an allinclusive list of position responsibilities._

• A Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Computer Science or equivalent education in a related discipline is required; Related technical work experience is a plus
• 5+ years in technology related roles
• Project Management experience
• Familiarity and experience working in a software development framework
• 3+ years working in agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
• 1+ years working with CI/CD automation tooling such as Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, Azure DevOps
• Knowledge of Scaled Agile (SAFe) and waterfall product development methodology(s)
• Knowledge of DevOps principles and practices

• Software Release Management experience
• Familiarity with ServiceNow
• Familiarity with AWS/Azure cloud solutions
• Experience working on Process and Solution Designing
• Implementation experience in ITSM modules (including Incident, Problem, Change, and CMDB
• Ability to instill discipline within the organization along with demonstrated leadership capability
• Excellent analytical, documentation and research skills
• Strong organizational and problemsolving skills
• Possess effective time management skills with the ability to multitask
• Communicate effectively within