Release Manager

Seeking Local Charlotte CandidatesOnsite 3 days a weekRelease ManagerKey responsibilities include communicating the release objective, coordinating delivery, managing risks, ensuring compliance to standards, and providing end to end visibility to the health of the deliverables. This role ensures execution and delivery meets the client’s expectations in terms of the quality and timelines. They facilitate sync points across multiple organization to enable delivery.7+ years’ experience as a release managerRelease Management, Project Planning, Scrum Master, or Release Train Engineer working experienceTableau reporting skillsUnderstand release/deployment components. Understand risks and can ally controls necessary to mitigate. Facilitate team planning ceremonies against release milestones. Ability to answer team Agile/waterfall framework questions. Ability to understand big picture and connect all details.Required Skills Project Planning/Project Management and Analytical Thinking - Moderate to advanced Project Planning software skills (e.g. MS Project, Primavera, etc. – experience with critical path analysis, predecessor/successor relationships) Collaboration, Facilitation, and Stakeholder Management - Moderate to advanced Meeting facilitation skills (being able to facilitate, drive, and redirect large scale meetings while working through a deliverable such as a project plan) Agile Practices - At least moderate exposure to Jira tools Data Management - Moderate to advanced experience with Production “record of change” tools such as ITSM BMC Remedy or ServiceNow (Tasks, Configuration Item management, Relationships, etc.) Risk Management – Previous experience with Risk Management (identifying and escalating release related risks) Managing and coordinating assigned change from initiation to closure Coordinating interfaces between Change Management and other ITSM processes Coordinating planning, implementation, and verification activities with all change stakeholders Planning and runbook reviews with change stakeholders Stakeholder management Facilitating the triage of any issues found during release related activities Able to learn and understand the tools that must be used for the completion of the above job duties (e.g. Remedy, Cutover, MS Project, Jira, Release Manager Tool) Identifying and escalating risks and concernsSkills:Release management, Agile, Project management, Release planning, Jenkins, Release coordination, Deployment, Software release management, Jira, Change managementTop Skills Details:Release management,Agile,Project management,Release planning,Jenkins,Release coordination,Deployment,Software release managementAdditional Skills & Qualifications:Release managerExperience Level:Intermediate LevelAbout TEKsystems: We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.