Release Manager

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All about the role:
As a Release Manager you will be part of the Consumer Centric Delivery Team, 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, organised in a Product teams structure that deliver continuous improvements and technical enablers through scaled agile practices in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.
In this role you will be responsible for ensuring that new releases to production are successful, executed on time, properly communicated in advance and are smooth both to our consumers and internal users. In addition to that, you will own our Release Framework, being the one accountable for maintaining the release calendar up-to-date, communicating outcome of releases to all relevant stakeholders, establish principles to guide the delivery team on how to prevent unplanned downtime, look for relentless improvements to reduce the time frame of technical releases execution as well as improve our time to market.
Together with our team you will drive transformation in a complex IT delivery landscape, consulting with Delivery Leads and Product Managers, Solutions Leads, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners among other stakeholders to enable successful continuous delivery in both Agile and traditional project management way. You will work, on a daily basis, with colleagues remotely that are based in other countries. Occasional travels within Europe are anticipated.
As we are accelerating the rollout of your landscape through Europe in a 3 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.
What you'll do:
· Own the Release Management framework to ensure that all aspects of our framework are covered with excellence: Governance, Planning, Execution, Communication.
· Manage releases for continuous product increments in 2 week sprint cycles and bug fix releases for live services through development, test and introduction to production in a hybrid cloud environment, with both on-premise, SaaS and Cloud Native solutions
· Define release strategy for ad-hoc complex initiatives, in which automation is not applicable. Lead and execute releases with our own internal teams, vendor and with customer application including the execution of cutover, deployment plans and checklists
· Drive Transformation within the Consumer Centric Release Train by continuously improve release approach for product increments, product release patches and major projects
· Act as an evangelist of our release practices internally to secure the proper adoption of our release practices by all delivery teams
· Establish guidelines for Software Products release patches execution (version upgrades, hotfix, etc)
· Administrate required due diligence procedures as per internal software policies and through seeking of required approvals (ITIL Change Management)
· Coordinate and communicate across the organization to make sure feature and release launches are smooth and uneventful
· Proactively find and employ release best practices, processes and tools to create a lean, automated release management to reduce downtime windows and increase time to market
· Manage the governance of sub-production environments, ensuring that configuration engineers are able to keep our instances always aligned to the Live environments and packages promotion process follows the release framework
Qualifications:
· Experience with developing and owning release management procedures on SaaS platforms, Cloud Native an on-prem hosted applications with a high level of dependencies
· Experience working with software development life-cycle tools such as JIRA, Confluence
· Experience with creating detailed task level plans and in managing dependencies between different software development and delivery teams
· Exposure to SAFe framework and product development teams
· 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
· Experience on managing release packages in sub-production environments as well as establishing and maintaining governance of configuration engineers
This is what Juliano Tripodi, our Agile Delivery Lead says:
"We are in a journey to build a bullet proof Release Framework if you want to make your mark, this is your chance. Our team is on the critical path to perform successful consumer facing releases, so boring is not a word used here. We need people who is eager to teach us and show a different perspective of how to get things done. Here you will take the full ownership of your deliverables as a hands-on professional. So this position is for you who like to work in a fast-paced environment and take the driver seat in your career."
Where you'll be:
You will be based at Electrolux HQ in Stockholm at Kungsholmen.
Benefit highlights:
· Flexibility of work hours
· Discounts on Electrolux products and services
· Life insurance policy
Find out more on:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/electrolux/life/lifeatelectrolux