Manager, Release Train Engineer

Mynt; Philippines; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Competitive compensation package

Flexible benefits

Job summary

GCash, a leading fintech platform in the Philippines, seeks an experienced Release Manager/RTE to lead mobile app releases and end-to-end deployment. You will coordinate cross-team efforts, manage deployment schedules, and ensure smooth production changes across platforms.

The role requires 2-3 years in release management within financial or technical industries, with SAFe/Agile exposure and incident management experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical degree, or equivalent to project management.
• 2-3 years of release management experience.
• Service/incident management experience.
• Experience in Agile/SAFe environments and programs.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary Program Manager for mobile app releases and end-to-end deployment.
• Coordinate deployment changes across platforms to avoid business-hour disruptions.
• Review and approve deployment requests for schedule and impact.
• Provide guidance for QA regression impact analyses and onboarding for new SMs.
• Support release deployment across all platforms.

Skills

Release management

Agile methodologies

Program management

Cross-team coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

SAFe Release Train Engineer certification

Job description

Do you want to take the first step in making Filipinos' lives better everyday? Here in GCash we want to stay at the forefront of the FinTech industry by creating innovative, meaningful, and convenient financial solutions for the nation! G ka ba? Join the G Nation today!

Who you'll be working with:

If you have a strong background in IT, computer science, or software engineering, and are analytical, technologically savvy, solutions and process-focused, then the Technology & Operations team may be for you!

You'll be responsible for the following:

• RTE acts as primary Program Manager for Mobile App Releases (weekly meeting for App team as to ensure app delivery timeline, handles gap assessment as needed, full end to end cycle hands on until App submission roll outs.
• RTE applies cross tribe/ inter tribe support to all system, platform, and/or network level changes from Initiatives across the company's businesses, services and/or products and helps synchronize all the production deployment activities. Performing end to end service management from demand value, performing for work or accomplishing a common objective.
• Works with different teams to review, ensure, approve deployment requests across, aimed at ensuring the schedule of changes as to assess transactional impact vs non impacting based on peak/off peak hours for all GCASH services, products, systems as will not cause any disruptions at/during business hours and customers.
• RTE helps/give guidance for SMs as needed for timeline concerns as recommendations for QA regression impact analysis as not to hamper/delay Tech RFS schedules. RTE gives weekly onboarding activity for new SMs hired by VMO.
• Acts as release deployment support team for all platforms.

We're looking for:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Scienceor other relevant technical degree or equivalent to Project management. Must have at least 2-3 years of Release Management experience/Release Manager, managing a proprietary products or platforms from a Financial or Technical Industry.
• Must have a service management or incident management experience.
• Certifications such as the SAFe Release Train Engineer certification (SAFe RTE) can be an advantage.
• Strong understanding of Project management. Agile methodologies and frameworks (Scrums/Waterfall/Agile)
• Experience working with Agile / Lean environments; ideally direct involvement in an Agile Release Train (ART) and Program Increment (PI).

What We Offer

Opportunity for career growth and development in the #1 FinTech company in the country Working with a dynamic and highly collaborative team who want to change the game A company that values their people with highly competitive and flexible compensation and benefits package