Release Manager

JOB SUMMARY
This role is accountable for identifying areas of opportunity for improved delivery and measurement within the Freestyle IoT device team. Release Management provides structure around continuous delivery for our development and QA teams as well as all dependent teams needed to successfully deliver upon commitments.

JOB DESCRIPTION
This role is accountable for the Release Management lifecycle which includes planning scheduling coordinating and the management of software release readiness as well as identifying areas for improved delivery and measurement across domains in the CocaCola Freestyle Commercial Software team from planning development and through to quality assurance. The releases can be inclusive of software and embedded updates.

Function Related Activities:
Designing streamlined processes and improvements within the organization
Coordinate with key stakeholders across the organization during all phases of the release including requirement reviews prioritization estimation capacity planning and delivery
Provides subject matter expertise across Agile development methodologies and tool sets
Leverages the Freestyle tool stack to communicate release details and project manage all phases of release activities and ceremonies
Collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to identify process gaps and implement process improvements
Manages risks and resolve issues that affect release scope schedule and quality
Maintains the release schedule for all core services and ensures alignment across key partners and vendors.
Gather and analyze metrics on each release
Organizes and runs meetings for defects as well as team release meetings
Performs light administration of Jira projects Confluence wiki and GitHub
Works with Scrum Master and Product Owner to ensure team alignment
Continually work towards making improvements in the release process

Education: Bachelors Degree required and Masters preferred
Related Work Experience:
At least 5 years of experience in largescale technology software development and customer operations.
Strong knowledge of agile principles and tools
Experience in service or product management
Strong organization planning and communication skills