Release Manager - Integrations

B2B.net S.A; Gdynia; Hybrid; PLN 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm in Poland is seeking an experienced Release Manager to coordinate and manage application releases. The role includes working closely with various stakeholders to ensure quality and compliance. Ideal candidates will have a degree in IT, strong communication skills, and over 7 years of management experience in the banking sector. Remote work is available for 2 days a week.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT project management and planning skills.
• Previous experience in release or deployment management activities, preferably in banking.
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, plan and maintain the release roadmap for applications.
• Lead release decision meetings and secure stakeholder approvals.
• Increase release quality through automation and DevOps practices.

Skills

Analytical skills

Coordination skills

Flexibility

Networking and interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in IT or related disciplines

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Welcome to the Execution & Delivery Unit. We add value by enabling efficient, scalable and repeatable release management operations for the vast majority of IT initiatives.

As a Release Manager you will be responsible for ensuring that new releases to Bank's payment technology platforms and applications (Payment Integrations) are planned and executed efficiently, with the highest quality for customers and operations, and in compliance with Bank'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.

Location: Tricity or Warsaw

Remote work: 2 days at the office per week

You’ll 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!

Release Manager - Integrations

Your responsibilities

• 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.

Our requirements

• Bachelors/Master's degree in IT or related disciplines.
• 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, ownership, and ability to quickly adapt and respond to change.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Flexibility: able to work outside standard business hours (evenings and weekends) for the implementation of events.
• Practical understanding of Agile, Scrum, SAFe methodologies.
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English.
• IT project management and planning skills (7+ years).
• 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 (preferably on Bank's side).
• Confident working with Project Management tools. (Jira, Confluence).
• Experience to work with continuous integration and continuous deployment practices.
• Experience with working on the edge of IT and business, with solid understanding of business aspects
• Basic understanding of DevOps ways of working.
• Have extra-ordinary 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.