Release Manager 24221
Release Manager 24221
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Job Description
Wyndham Hotels & Resortsis now seeking aRelease Manager to join our team at the Parsippany 22 Sylvan Way location in ParsippanyNew Jersey.
Why Wyndham
By joining Wyndham Hotels & Resorts you will play an integral role in our mission to make hotel travel possible for all. Youll be part of the largest hotel franchise company in the world where we strive to deliver the best value to our owners and guests. Most importantly youll be entrusted to live our unique Count on Me culture set by our core values of integrity accountability inclusive caring and fun. At Wyndham we provide all team members the opportunity to grow through bestinclass training and career development leadership training mentorship opportunities and educational support. Supporting our team members is a top priority which is why we offer competitive compensation and benefits vacation team member appreciation days workplace flexibility and much more. At Wyndham Hotels & Resorts we value and embrace a culture of diversity equity and inclusion that supports team members of all backgrounds and experiences. We cant wait to welcome you!
The Role
The Release Manager is responsible for overseeing the entire software release process encompassing planning coordinating development deployment scheduling and controlling the delivery process. The Release Manager must ensure that quality standards are met risks are mitigated and effective communication with stakeholders is maintained throughout the release cycle. Acting as the central point of contact for all releaserelated activities this role requires a strong understanding of both development and operations to manage the release schedule and guarantee a seamless transition to production. Key responsibilities include planning testing tracking release deployment communication and risk management.
What youll do
Key responsibilities of a Release Manager:
Release planning:
Creating detailed release plans including timelines milestones dependencies and resource allocation.
Stakeholder management:
Communicating release plans and updates to key stakeholders including development teams QA operations and product management.
Risk management:
Identifying potential risks throughout the release process and developing mitigation strategies.
Quality assurance:
Ensuring that releases meet quality standards by coordinating testing activities and monitoring defect resolution.
Release coordination:
Managing the release process including scheduling deployments coordinating handoffs between teams and resolving releaserelated issues.
Release monitoring:
Tracking release progress identifying potential problems and managing incidents postrelease.
Communication facilitation:
Acting as a communication bridge between development operations and other stakeholders.
Release documentation:
Maintaining comprehensive release documentation including release notes change logs and deployment procedures.
Youll be successful if you have
- Release management skills: Ability to plan schedule coordinate execute and monitor complex project deliveries
- Strong communication skills: Effectively communicating with technical and nontechnical stakeholders
- Technical knowledge: Understanding of software development lifecycle deployment processes and relevant tools
- Problemsolving skills: Identifying and resolving issues quickly and efficiently
- Risk management expertise: Proactively identifying and mitigating potential risks
- Agile methodology knowledge: Familiarity with Agile principles and practices
- Ability to work under pressure
- Intellectually sharp capable and flexible.
- Ability to make incisive and knowledgeable decisions promptly.
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good presentation skills
- Good decisionmaking skills
- Analytical person at a tactical and functional level.
Required Qualifications/Experience
- MS/BS in Computer Science/Information Technology or related field and/or equivalent experience
- 7 years of release management experience leading production releases of largescale complex multiteam and longrunning projects
- Strong leadership presence and influencing skills
- Able to forge crossfunctional partnerships and drive organizational processes technology portfolio and operational results
- Strong experience leading multisite and/or offshore and contractor resources
- Strong experience working on largescale enterprisewide projects
- Strong experience in SDLC change management release management processes and methodologies
- Strong working experience in Release tools such as Plutora Cloudbees CDRO
- Strong working experience in Management tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies
- Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CD/CI) pipelines
- Project management experience
- Team management skills
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is the worlds largest hotel franchising company by the number of properties with approximately 9200 hotels across over 95 countries on six continents. Through our network of approximately 872000 rooms appealing to the everyday traveler Wyndham commands a leading presence in the hospitality industry. Headquartered in Parsippany N.J. with offices around the world in London Shanghai Buenos Aires Dubai and more Wyndham employs more than 2000 corporate team members worldwide who are dedicated to the Companys mission of making hotel travel possible for all. Supporting thousands of franchisees and a growing global portfolio of 24 hotel brandsthink household names like Wyndham La Quinta Ramada Days Inn and Super 8Wyndham team members are a widespread group of individuals with diverse interests and backgrounds. Our unique Count on Me culture commitment to flexibility and core values of Integrity Accountability Inclusivity Caring and Fun are just part of what continues to make Wyndham an awardwinning best place to work.
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
Job Location: Parsippany 22 Sylvan Way22 Sylvan WayParsippanyNew Jersey 07054
Employment Status: Fulltime
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
