Tribe Release Engineer

Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS)

We are looking for a Tribe Release Engineer responsible for coordinating release activities, managing Epic/Feature releases from test to production on our various technical platforms.

Responsibility

• Leading and coordinating the release activities within the tribe, ensuring timely and successful releases
• Playing a pivotal role in ensuring smooth and efficient delivery and deployment of software products within the tribe
• In charge of streamlining the processes for delivering and deploying software to test and production environments of all the components and packages managed by the Tribe
• Responsible for optimizing the flow of work through the release pipeline (CI/CD), identifying and removing bottlenecks
• Defining the release strategy: i.e. Identifies and manages risks associated with releases, implementing mitigation strategies as needed - including release acceptance testing (non-regression)

Role

• Leading and coordinating Squad releases from the 2 areas of the Tribe : Banking & Cash
• Aligning with the overall divisional and cross divisional release governance, rhythm and calendars, align with Business for go-to market release arrangements
• Communicating the annual release calendars to the Tribe members
• Scoping and planning releases together with Test Leads during HLTLS
• Consolidating and ensuring the coherence of the release components included in the release
• Assessing and managing release components dependencies
• Measuring and monitoring progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time
• Identifying and mitigating risk related to release
• Coordinating NRT packs execution prior to Pre-Production delivery
• Facilitating the Go / No-Go process and ceremonies
• Communicating on Tribe release status
• Driving releases to Production (ensure proper sourcing and support before, during and after deployment)
• Streamlining the delivery and deployment processes
• Coordinating release post-launch activities within the tribe and in alignment with divisional release management
• Proceeding with the management, monitoring, and improvement of release processes under the guidance of the divisional release management team
• Promoting continuous integration and continuous deployment (DevOps practices).
• Defining environment needs together with Test Leads and ensure that the integrity of the pre-production or production environment is protected
• Actively contributing to GBS Testing Community of Practice to leverage new practices aiming at cost reduction, quality increase and support the Testing Transformation

Competency

• A Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Civil Engineering or similar
• Proven experience in release management, preferably within an Agile or DevOps environment. Experience in coordinating cross-functional teams and managing complex release schedules.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to plan, execute, and oversee release processes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with various stakeholders, including business units and technical teams.
• Proficiency in risk management and the ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with releases.
• Familiar with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices and tools.
• Ability to facilitate Go/No-Go decisions and lead release ceremonies.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and release management tools. Knowledge of environment management and ensuring the integrity of pre-production and production environments.
• Strong analytical skills to measure and monitor progress, ensuring timely delivery of application releases
• Ability to lead and coordinate squad releases, aligning with divisional and cross-divisional governance and rhythms.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing release schedules and business requirements, ensuring alignment with go-to-market strategies
• Familiarity with large multi-platform-based IT environments, such as Mainframe, Open system, Packages, on prem, cloud
• Former experience in integration testing activities on such multi-platform & complex environments
• familiar with testing tools is an asset
• Experience in the financial industry, knowledge in Cash messaging and the terms/terminology is an asset
• solution and customer focused
• English is mandatory

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