Lead Associate, Release Management

As a Lead Associate in Release Management at BetaNXT, your role involves supporting the scheduling, coordination, and verification of all technology/application releases at Mediant. 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 will 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, 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 like Bamboo and BitBucket - Experience working in a Cloud environment, preferably AWS - Previous experience in the financial services and securities industry preferred - Comfortability testing software applications, APIs, and database objects/SQL - Experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Release Management for a rapidly growing company - Familiarity with software development tools like GIT, GitLab, Docker, Postman, and Splunk - B.S degree required, advanced degree or equivalent experience preferred - Strong project management and communication skills - Experience in Software Quality Assurance or Verification of Release Builds - Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies and SQL skills (Note: Additional details about the company were not present in the provided job description),