Release manager

As a Release Manager in Brisbane, Melbourne, or Sydney, your primary responsibility will be to develop, maintain, and manage the overall release management criteria and plan. You will be required to package up changes as part of regular releases to ensure production stability and discipline in migrations. Your role will involve assessing and approving the quality of migration readiness in coordination with the project lifecycle process, data quality, and testing signoffs. Additionally, you will manage and coordinate vendors involved in the release process when necessary. Another crucial aspect of your role will be to ensure that operations staff handovers have been completed successfully before the release. Effective communication across the team and with the business regarding the release management schedule will be essential. You will collaborate with the change manager to communicate proposed changes to business processes, training schedules, the overall benefits of project deployment, and the recognition of success. Furthermore, you will be responsible for promoting the segregation of duty in migration activities, establishing, configuring, and maintaining non-production environments, and liaising with vendors for issue resolution and upgrade planning. Managing source code, including version control, supporting releases, managing migrations between environments, and developing release batch schedules will also be part of your job duties. In addition to these responsibilities, you will need to develop and manage medium to large implementation plans, build and maintain a broad Release Management calendar, and integrate release management processes across the portfolio. Identifying, preparing, analyzing, and presenting data using available technologies, as well as building constructive working relationships with team members, stakeholders, customers, partners, vendors, and all levels of management will be crucial for success in this role. Qualifications: - Tertiary Qualification in Information Technology and/or Business or equivalent industry experience (Desired) Experience: - At least 5 years of appropriate industry experience - Previous experience in a large organization in a Release Management role - Experience in managing conflicting needs of project and testing teams and meeting these with appropriate source code management and development environment setup - Experience in leading geographically distributed teams Skills Required: - Deep passion for release management and process improvement - Proven track record in improving release management maturity - Experience in release management practices - Strong Business Intelligence technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills - Strong understanding of the overall business intelligence platform and development process,