We are now looking for a Release Manager consultant to join our client in the banking sector. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth and timely delivery of high-quality software solutions. If you already have some proven experience in release or deployment management activities along with a passion for ensuring seamless software releases, we want to hear from you. Read on and apply today!

City: Helsinki

Job Category: IT

Extent: Full time, 12 months

Start date: According to the agreement

Type of work: Staffing

Other: Possibility to work remote

About the role

As a Release Manager, you are responsible for overseeing the planning, coordination, and end-to-end execution of software and application releases within our client organization's IT environment. Your primary role is to ensure that new software versions, updates, and patches are delivered efficiently and effectively to the business. In collaboration with relevant stakeholders, you will lead assigned projects from start to finish.

You are offered:

-Independent and responsible role in a global organization
-Hybrid working model (3 days at the office/week)
-Great colleagues to work with

Work tasks

-Release planning: Collaborating with development teams, project managers, and stakeholders to create release schedules, prioritize features, and establish release criteria
-Release coordinating: Coordinate the strategizing, implementation, and oversight of software rollouts throughout the entire Software Development Lifecycle
-Risk management: Identifying potential risks and dependencies related to releases, devising mitigation strategies, and proactively addressing issues that may impact release delivery
-Communication: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and overcome challenges
-Release reporting and documentation: provide post-release reports and analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of the release process
-Release documentation: creating and maintaining release documentation, including release notes, deployment instructions, and rollback plans, to ensure clear communication and support for release activities

We are looking for

-Fluent English
-IT project management and planning skills
-Previous experience from release or deployment management activities
-Experience working with incident, problem, and change management tools and processes under the ITIL framework
-Experience working with Jira & Confluence
-Experience in working with continuous integration and continuous deployment practices
-Basic understanding of DevOps ways of working
-Fundamental technical knowledge to communicate with the development teams and create & validate deployment runbooks in collaboration with the team

To succeed in the role, as an employee you are:

-Analytical and detail-oriented
-Proactive and a great communicator
-Flexible
-Networker

A credit information check will be carried out for the chosen candidate.

Our recruitment process

This recruitment process is handled by Academic Work and it is our client's wish that all questions regarding the position is directed to Academic Work.

Our selection process is continuous and the advert may close before the recruitment process is completed if we have moved forward to the next phase. The process includes two tests: one personality test and one cognitive test. The tests are tools to find the right talent for the right position, to enable equality, diversity, and a fair process.