Release Engineer jobs in Oregon

As a Release Manager, you will be an integral part of the team that enables the Digital organization to bring its world-class products and applications to market. We are focused on delivering the technology and processes that support our -branded sites and stores. We strive to deliver locally relevant solutions for our consumers and enable retail, commerce, infrastructure, and mobile experiences. You will work across Digital experience teams to understand key business drivers and enable the delivery of successful releases for Global Retail Fleet.

Role Description: Expertise in the function of Release Management and implementation. Executes the Release Management processes for the organization. Schedules, coordinates, and manage releases across technology platforms and applications, across participating teams and geographies for large scale, complex enterprise programs.

You’ll be a trusted member of our team with the following responsibilities:

·        Manage intake, prioritization, timing, demand and capacity for major program delivery

·        Partner closely with program, quality, support, and release teams to align on scope, release cadence, delivery and support requirements

·        Work with multiple cross functional teams to support and enhance our platforms.

·        Partner with the business and IT stakeholders to drive release scheduling decisions

·        Provide visibility of scheduled releases to stakeholders

·        Manage go/no-go, decision checkpoint, and retrospective meetings with release stakeholders

·        Manage execution of release activities from production release through release stabilization

·        Capture and publish key release metrics

Requirements

Qualifications:

·        Experience delivering complex technical projects, programs, or releases into production environments

·        Proven track record of implementing process change focused on alignment of business and technology; in particular, working with Engineering, QA and IT Technical Operations

·        Able to operate in a transforming, fast-paced, complex, high visibility environment with multiple competing priorities

·        Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication of complex topics to a diverse audience such as management, technical peers, and business stakeholders

·        Experience with SDLCs, including iterative, waterfall, and Agile

·        Deep understanding of release management processes; understanding of environment management

·        Strong skills in building positive business relationship

·        Strong commitment to customer service and teamwork

·        Ability to collaborate across teams with differing priorities and objectives to bring consensus

·        Demonstrated ability to influence and drive to results

·        Experience in global or multi-branded environments

·        Familiarity with development and deployment automation tools in the software development and deployment lifecycle

Other desirable qualifications:

·        Retail experience

·        Experience in global or multi-branded environments

·        IT Service Management

·        Project / Program Management

Education/Experience:

·        College degree and/or equivalent experience in computer science, project/program management, agile and scrum

·        Has developed a deep understanding and practical application of standard release process(s), agile methodologies and technical capabilities (including agile - lean, continuous delivery)

·        Demonstrated relevant industry experience in Retail release management or program/project management

·        Demonstrated up to date knowledge of deploy / implementation / release management processes and the ability to apply this in a program or product lifecycle