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Job Summary
Supports release deployments and creates deployment plan, tracking activity against plan.
Responsibilities
Stakeholder Management and Communications
Manages stakeholder expectations, inputs and communications directly or via project manager, depending on project scope
Guides business and project delivery stakeholders through IT process and obtain relevant participation
Tracks and updates release management dependencies, issues, and mitigation plans
Produces and maintains key reports required for stakeholder updates
Methodology and Process
Adheres to the process and methodology implemented to manage releases and its components
Responsible for maintaining documentation of methodology and process
Identifies any anomalies and reports to the release management team and impacted stakeholders
Provides recommendations for future optimization to increase efficiencies
Testing, Deployment and Support Planning
Coordinates planning and readiness activities for release testing cycles
Builds and maintains release testing dashboards
Coordinates deployment planning and readiness activities for release deployment cycles
Tracks deployment activities against plan
Provides periodic updates release deployment
Release Management
Maintains the annual release schedule and single global release plan that includes all projects aligned to specific releases
Calls out alignment issues across multiple projects for their respective phases/milestones within a specific release and works with stakeholders to resolve
Release Deployment
Supports and facilitates creations of deployment plan working with various stakeholders and leads of each project within a specific release
Monitors and reports progress of deployment activities for each release including dependencies and issues impacting deployment
Responsible for creating post deployment support plan with inputs from all stakeholders and leads
Creates instance plan for each release and their refresh schedule and ensures buy-in from all stakeholder before publishing it
Qualifications
3+ years experience
Associate's degree preferred
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