Tribe Release Engineer

Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS)

We are looking for aTribe Release Engineerresponsible for coordinating release activities managing Epic/Feature releases from test to production on our various technical platforms.

Please note that this is a permanent position and we do not offer freelance/contract arrangement for the role.

About the role:

• Leading and coordinating Squad releases from the 2 areas of the Tribe: Banking & Cash
• Aligning with the overall divisional and cross divisional release governance rhythm and calendars align with Business for goto market release arrangements
• Communicating the annual release calendars to the Tribe members
• Scoping and planning releases together with Test Leads during HLTLS
• Consolidating and ensuring the coherence of the release components included in the release
• Assessing and managing release components dependencies
• Measuring and monitoring progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time
• Identifying and mitigating risk related to release
• Coordinating NRT packs execution prior to PreProduction delivery
• Facilitating the Go / NoGo process and ceremonies
• Communicating on Tribe release status
• Driving releases to Production (ensure proper sourcing and support before during and after deployment)
• Streamlining the delivery and deployment processes
• Coordinating release postlaunch activities within the tribe and in alignment with divisional release management
• Proceeding with the management monitoring and improvement of release processes under the guidance of the divisional release management team
• Promoting continuous integration and continuous deployment (DevOps practices).
• Defining environment needs together with Test Leads and ensure that the integrity of the preproduction or production environment is protected
• Actively contributing to GBS Testing Community of Practice to leverage new practices aiming at cost reduction quality increase and support the Testing Transformation
• Quarterly deliveries will occur during the night between Friday and Saturday or on Saturday. Presence is required during these times

Responsibilities:

• Leading and coordinating the release activities within the tribe ensuring timely and successful releases
• Playing a pivotal role in ensuring smooth and efficient delivery and deployment of software products within the Tribe
• In charge of streamlining the processes for delivering and deploying software to test and production environments of all the components and packages managed by the Tribe
• Responsible for optimizing the flow of work through the release pipeline (CI/CD) identifying and removing bottlenecks
• Defining the release strategy: i.e. identifies and manages risks associated with releases implementing mitigation strategies as needed including release acceptance testing (nonregression)

Requirements:

• A Masters degree in Computer Science Mathematics Civil Engineering or similar
• Proven experience in release management preferably within an Agile or DevOps environment. Experience in coordinating crossfunctional teams and managing complex release schedules
• Strong project management skills with the ability to plan execute and oversee release processes
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with various stakeholders including business units and technical teams
• Proficiency in risk management and the ability to identify assess and mitigate risks associated with releases
• Familiar with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices and tools.
• Ability to facilitate Go/NoGo decisions and lead release ceremonies
• Understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and release management tools. Knowledge of environment management and ensuring the integrity of preproduction and production environments
• Strong analytical skills to measure and monitor progress ensuring timely delivery of application releases
• Ability to lead and coordinate squad releases aligning with divisional and crossdivisional governance and rhythms
• Flexibility to adapt to changing release schedules and business requirements ensuring alignment with gotomarket strategies
• Familiarity with large multiplatformbased IT environments such as Mainframe Open system Packages on prem cloud
• Former experience in integration testing activities on such multiplatform & complex environments
• familiar with testing tools is an asset
• Experience in the financial industry knowledge in Cash messaging and the terms/terminology is an asset
• solution and customer focused
• English is mandatory

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