Lead Release Manager

Location: Taguig
Work schedule and Setup: Dayshift / Onsite

Requirements
• Degree in Computer Science, Software engineering similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Must have minimum 10 years' experience working in project delivery of which 5 years in leadership roles
• With exposure to CICD and GitHub.
• Proven track record delivering large complicated IT projects with diverse stakeholders
• Experience with Agile development methodologies. ScrumMaster experience preferred.
• Passion to learn new technologies and drive major transformation. Ability to understand technical issues at a high level
• Ability to be nimble, proactive, comfortable working with minimal specifications
• Self-starter and possess excellent problem solving skill
• Excellent team player and team builder
• Must have exceptional communication, organization, time and risk management skills

Job Description
• Yearly roadmap planning with all stakeholders.
• Managing project and BAU financial for the country
• Accountable of end-to-end delivery of assigned releases
• Defining the end-to-end release plan and communicate to all the stakeholders.
• Track and deliver release as per release plan.
• Work with partners and negotiate to align their schedule against release schedule.
• Manage the engagement of delivery resources for projects.
• Actively manage and influence a range of stakeholders (e.g. delivery managers, vendor partners and business stakeholder). including negotiating hard deadlines, delivery issues, critical success factors, pushing back on what cannot be delivered, foreseeing issues and
proactively discussing them with stakeholders and escalating issues as appropriate to resolve them effectively.
• Manage and mitigate the release risks
• Manage the change management process for every release
• Constantly measure the project development and provide solutions for complex situations that impacts the progress
• Deliver stable solutions, enable production handover and ensure appropriate support and ownership in place for all delivery.
• Capacity planning for the ongoing new release and upcoming releases