Technical Platform and Software Release Manager
| Company | Aristocrat Leisure |
|---|---|
| Location | Las Vegas, NV, USA, Austin, TX, USA |
| Salary | $123231 – $228858 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Proficient in the use of MS Project for Resource assignments and workload management
- Fluent in SCRUM and Agile methodologies
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- Minimum 5 years’ experience providing ICT Release Management in an ITIL operational or engineering environment
- ITIL Certified
- 2+ years of Confluence experience
- 2+ years of Jira experience
- Microsoft Products
- PowerPoint
- MS Project/PWA (Project Web Access)
- Change Management experience
- Familiar with different project methodologies, Agile, Scaled Agile, Lean / Six Sigma, Waterfall
Responsibilities
- Conduct meetings with internal technology teams to create transparency of release status, risks, and constraints.
- Ensure the communication of workloads within releases to stakeholders is accurate and on a regular cadence.
- Managing technology team workloads in releases, providing weekly updates, working with different departments and teams ensuring alignment of releases.
- Responsible for mapping, tracking, and reporting on Jira Epic/Story/Task/Defect per workload or release.
- To work with our Project Managers to provide Scenario Plans for any new Product requests.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Hosting retrospectives, getting value added from those sessions, and driving service improvements across the Global Technology group.
- Ensuring release documentation is accurate and aligned to Global Technology policies.
- Creation of Jira Queries/Reports represented in Confluence.
- Creating weekly status reports based on updates provided by teams for an executive audience.
- Creation of flowcharts from processes to visually show improvement opportunities.
- Establish, develop, and implement release management governance and process.
- Improve the whole life cycle of services, from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP®) desired; other certifications, such as Program Management Professional (PgMP®), Portfolio Management Professional (PfMp®), Certified ScrumMaster®, preferred.