Release Manager

Job Description

Position : Release Manager

Location : Remote, near a USDA facility

Summary :  ASRC Federal Highland Technology is seeking a Release Manager to join a team supporting the Lean flow of Epics and features by providing release strategy, planning and execution in a large program as part of an Agile Release Train (ART). We are delivering solutions for enterprise class web applications for a federal agency client. This position corresponds to a blend of both the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFeÒ) “Product Manager” role, and “Release Manager”, for most duties.

Responsibilities :

• Developing and managing the release strategy, roadmaps, planning and execution for complex enterprise web applications and integrated systems for an Agile Release Train comprised of 18 agile software development teams
• Managing the end-to-end release lifecyle and helping the Agile Release Train to maintain a predictable cadence of deployments and releases of high-quality software through a CI / CD pipeline that meets our stakeholder and end-user needs
• Facilitating and leading enterprise and / or product-level release strategy and planning working sessions on behalf of the Agile Release Train
• Collaborating with business and IT stakeholders, product managers, architects, product owners, scrum masters, developers, quality assurance, security leads and operations team
• Developing and executing a release capabilities roadmap to optimize, mature and automate the release cycle and quality of software products
• Enabling the Agile Release Train to improve its development, deployment and release practices by collaborating with leadership and teams on iterative change management plans
• Communicating with internal and external stakeholders and teams on release capabilities, strategy, plans, risks and execution
• Collaborating with the Solution Trian and other Agile Release Trains on release dependencies, plans, risks and execution
• Monitoring and managing software versions across different release phases and environments to assist shared service vendors with pipeline quality assurance
• Anticipating, identifying, assessing and mitigating impacts and risks to stakeholders, end-users software quality and release predictability
• Track, monitor and report on progress of release milestones and all quality gates and communicate across all stakeholders, Agile Release Trains, teams and shared service vendors

Requirements

Required Skills and Competencies :

A successful candidate must have the following :

Citizen or Green Card with 3 year residency.

Successful candidate is subject to a background investigation by the government and must be able to meet the requirements to hold a position of public trust.

Education and Experience :

Bachelor's degree - Business Information Systems, Computer Science, or Engineering

5+ years of experience managing large, custom enterprise software systems, configurations and test data across multiple environments in a complex environment

ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.