Release Manager

Released Manager wanted to join our team in UK! The opportunity We are looking for an experienced Release Manager with extensive experience of Dev Ops related release management, who leads teams to follow best practices in development standards and coding reviews. You have an enthusiasm for learning new skills and initiative to deliver the best outcomes for our clients. You will be primarily responsible for the management and protection of releases through, where appropriate, Build/Develop, QA, UAT, Pre-Prod and Production environments for Salesforce Commerce Cloud.

• Negotiating, planning, and managing all release activities.
• Analysing risks and resolving issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality.
• Working cohesively with external partners, suppliers, and product owners.
• Developing common strategies for release governance across multiple systems.
• Communicating release details and schedules to the Business as required.
• Acting as guardian to uphold the integrity of the branching strategy and ensuring processes are optimised to enable frequent and smooth releases.
• Knowing and understanding impacts of branches and code merges in the repositories used by the dev teams.
• Working with third‑party managed‑hosting providers to increase automated processes end‑to‑end.
• Working with the development teams.
• Coaching and helping automate release processes.
• Informing senior management of enterprise‑wide exposure to release risk and effectively mitigating it.
• Creating, tracking, and maintaining a published release and deployment calendar.
• Knowing the tech stack of the development process so you can participate and discuss with the development teams the challenges of the full delivery workflow. A core background in eCommerce technologies is a must.
• Maintaining release documentation and managing key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
• Working with Infrastructure teams to improve a process, raise awareness of potential problems and risks, and ensuring that the process is fit for the Release process needs.
• Working closely with Project Management to ensure the efficiency of the delivery of Programmes and Projects (Control, Plan, Measure, Predict and React).
• Working with Service Management in the Post‑Mortem analysis and improvements identification.
• Understanding Infrastructure where applications will be deployed and the different technologies that can be involved in a complex E‑commerce environment, thereby building bridges between the product delivered and the Infrastructure that supports it.

• Experience in Dev Ops related release management, including implementing and managing the release management life cycle.
• Experience in software development, preferably on web (eCommerce) sites.
• Knowledge of software build, repository, and maintenance tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, or any other automation build and deployment tools.
• Experience working in agile environments with SCRUM methodologies.
• Passionate about delivering quality software and defending the customer/end‑user perspective.
• Good communication skills and a belief in teamwork.
• Good technical understanding required for investigating, resolving and triaging release defects.
• Strong time management and organisational skills.
• Interest in automating things.
• Desire to learn and investigate new technologies that the company is working with or will work with in the future.
• Experience in Continuous Integration, Delivery, Deploy methodologies.
• Excellent negotiation skills and an ability to handle sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy.