Release Engineer

Global Electrolux Talent Program presents:
The Global Electrolux Talent Program is a proactive initiative that brings together young talent across various functions and global offices of Electrolux. This program is for you, who are interested in a global, hands-on experience in an intercultural setting with the goal of securing global employment opportunities within the company upon a successful completion of the internship.
Release Engineer – Stockholm, Sweden
For us going to work every day has an even greater purpose than putting the latest product or technology on the market. It’s about improving the everyday lives of millions. By being sustainable and open to new ideas we can push the boundaries of cooking, cleaning, and wellbeing at home. But to keep doing so, we need more people who want to innovate and re-imagine what life at home can be.
As a Release Engineer you will be part of a fully empowered, autonomous and cross-functional team that create software deliveries as business solutions to our end consumers, customers and users. You will work with multiple development teams that deliver product increments using agile methodologies in sprints in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
In this role you will consult with Delivery and Product Managers, Solutions Leads, Scrum Masters, Lead Developers and Product Owners among other stakeholders to enable successful continuous delivery. You will be based in our Stockholm office, however you will work with colleagues remotely that are based in other countries. Occasional travel within Europe is anticipated.
A regular day at work:
• Create and own release schedules through collaboration with product teams
• Execute successful release of our software solutions to our Live Environments by coordinating with our various development teams
• Effectively communicate release content to your stakeholders by gathering business requirements and user stories that were or will be deployed by the different development teams in your release window
• Ensure all due-diligence is passed such as approvals, gathering of test results and resource availability as a preparation for a successful release
• For large project and rollout releases you will create detailed task level plan covering multiple development teams, master data, integrations and security to successfully enable a market/ country on the new platforms
• You will create, manage and execute technical cutover activities as per your release schedules
• Manage cross-team dependencies
• Provide inputs to enable resource planning in advance taking into consideration skills needed in order to secure a smooth delivery as well as enable quick decisions around resource allocation
• Proactively act to mitigate risks and blockers, communicate and influence decisions by sharing alternatives at the program forums
• Support our transformation journey by continuously look for improvement related to ways of working
• Join workshops and take ownership for implementing continuous improvements initiatives

Who you are:
The position requires:
• Positive interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence individuals and teams rather than dictate
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Good problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to manage and react quickly in pressured environment and situations
• Process orientation with good time management and scheduling skills
• Ability to managing multiple streams of activity, shifting focus regularly
• To be solution oriented, sociable, fun to work with, positive, humble and that enjoys working with software products.
• Strong presentation and task level planning skills
• Process orientation with good time management and scheduling skills
• Knowledge of the software life cycle

Education & experience:
• Bachelor’s degree on any academic discipline with strong passion for Software Development lifecycle.
• 1-2 years of project management or continuous improvement experience.
• Stakeholder management, especially in multicultural teams.
• Experience in writing good technical documentation
It is preferred:
• Preferably have a background as developer
• Experience managing projects or software delivery teams with both agile and waterfall releases
• Experience with managing resources and cross-team conflicts
• Understanding of best practices of market such as Lean, Agile, SAFe framework and product teams
• Knowledge around hybrid cloud environment
• Preferably have experience with SAP Consumer Experience products such as SAP Sales, Service Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and chat bots

What you will learn:
As we are accelerating the rollout of your landscape through Europe in a 3,5 years plan, now is the perfect time for you to join Electrolux IT Consumer & Customer service solutions team. Here you are given the autonomy to solve complex problems, advance your skills, deliver next-generation intelligent solutions and all of this having fun and interacting with a high performance team.
Our team is multi-cultural where individual differences are appreciated and respected. We strongly believe that we can drive innovation with diversity as an asset, which means we value and respect differences in gender, race, and ethnicity, whatever differences you name it.

What you will get from the program:
• Learning experience within 14 months
• Gross salary of 19.700 SEK
• Vacation days and other company benefits
• Cellphone and laptop
• Visa costs and process
• Reallocation support: local registration processes