Lead Associate, Release Management

As the Lead Associate, Release Management at BetaNXT, your role involves supporting the scheduling, coordination, and verification of all Mediant's technology/application releases. You will collaborate with QA and Developer Leads to ensure builds are validated before deployment to Production and organize artifacts for release. Additionally, you will work with IT management to enhance software engineering processes and practices related to building, deploying, updating software, and maintaining environments. Your responsibilities also include assisting in triaging issues in Production, performing Root Cause Analysis to identify bug introductions, and providing feedback to enhance engineering processes. Key Responsibilities: - Implementing and managing release processes for software applications, APIs, and various IT initiatives. - Validating release features, preparing release instructions, and coordinating resources required for deployment. - Establishing and maintaining a bug triage process, prioritizing bugs for fixes, and ensuring timely resolution by the scrum team. - Collaborating with Developers, QA, and DevOps teams to identify and evaluate risks related to releases. - Conducting Root Cause Analysis for discovered bugs, assisting in troubleshooting production issues, and coordinating resources to address them. - Managing projects and interdependencies to ensure production readiness for all system updates. Qualifications Required: - At least 6+ years of experience with build, deployment, and versioning software such as Bamboo and BitBucket. - Experience working in a Cloud environment, preferably AWS. - Previous experience in the financial services and securities industry is preferred. - Comfortable testing software applications, APIs, and database objects/SQL, with experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Release Management. - Familiarity with software development tools like GIT, GitLab, Docker, Postman, and Splunk. - A B.S degree is required, while an advanced degree or equivalent experience is preferred. - Strong project management and communication skills. - Experience in Software Quality Assurance or Verification of Release Builds. - Experience with build and release processes, especially deploying in a Cloud environment. - Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies and SQL skills to write queries and understand existing stored procedures and functions. Kindly note that there are no additional details about the company provided in the job description.,