Release Manager

Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

Release Manager for IBM Sustainability Software

IBM Sustainability Software needs a collaborative and confident Software Release Manager who guides software products to successful delivery and ensures compliance with IBM processes. Assigned products could be SaaS, on-premise or both. Development teams could be local or remote.

A Release Manager oversees the planning, coordination, execution and delivery of software releases. It includes aspects of Agile project management as well as IBM processes for software delivery. They ensure software is released in a smooth and efficient manner. As a Release Manager, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful delivery of software products while maintaining stability and minimizing disruptions. Effective communication, attention to detail, and a focus on continuous improvement are essential skills for this role.

Responsibilities Include

• Work with Development Product Management, Security, Support, Legal and other partners to complete Release Management tasks for software products
• Coordinate with development and stakeholders to set and manage scope, and to prioritize and schedule release activities
• Develop release plans, timelines, and milestones, and drive the team to finish tasks on time with high quality
• Facilitate communication to ensure smooth collaboration across different teams
• Help fix problems: Understand the context, get people talking, get to the bottom of it, get action plans and targets, facilitate retrospective review, and apply learnings the next time
• Identify and assess potential risks, develop mitigation plans, and take action as needed
• Perform or facilitate compliance processes such as open source software clearance, security and privacy reviews, and export classification
• Evaluate and improve release processes based on feedback and post-release analysis
  
  
  

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 3 years of experience with software development
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and problem solving skills
• Consistency and attention to detail
• Familiar with Agile Project Management and related tools (e.g. GitHub, ZenHub, JIRA)
  
  
  

Desired Experience

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Familiar with software development at IBM (cloud, on-premise or both)
• Familiar with IBM-specific Release Management, software delivery or compliance
• Experience with Agile development process
• Experience with Project Management
• Experience with global teams and cross-time zone collaboration
  
  
  

About Business Unit

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

Your Life @ IBM

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About IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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