• Client: Banking industry
• Rate: up to 155 PLN/h + VAT
• Location: Warsaw or Lodz or Gdynia or Gdynia, Poland
• Work mode: once per week in the office

Welcome to the Release and Change Management Team. We add value by enabling efficient, scalable and repeatable release management operations for the vast majority of IT initiatives

As a Release Manager you will be responsible for ensuring that new releases to Client's technology platforms and applications are planned and executed efficiently, with the highest quality for customers and operations, and in compliance with Client's standards.

You will be working with many different stakeholders such as other release managers, Test managers, Product owners, Execution leads, Scrum Masters, Operations teams etc, in order to secure a safe and successful delivery

• Coordinating, planning and maintaining the release roadmap for one or more applications.
• Release and deployment planning and coordination of multiple parallel releases
• Planning release go live and post-go-live activities.
• Planning, coordinating and tracking change activities throughout the release activitie
• Leading release decision meetings to secure stakeholder approval for each release milestone.
• Planning and setting up handover sessions

• Bachelors/Master's degree in IT or related disciplines.
• Excellent networking and interpersonal skills.
• Are an analytical person with great coordination and planning skills.
• Pay attention to details, with the ability to keep an overview to deliver your commitments and dependencies to others.
• Accountability, proactivity, ownership, and ability to quickly adapt and respond to change.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Flexibility: able to work outside standard business hours (evenings and weekends) for the implementation of events.
• Practical understanding of Agile, Scrum, SAFe methodologies.
• Highly proficient in spoken and written English

• IT project management and planning skills (7+ years)
• Previous experience from release or deployment management activities (preferably from the banking sector)
• Experience working with incident, problem and change management tools and processes under ITIL framework
• Confident working with Project Management tools. (Jira,Confluence)
• Experience to work with continuous integration and continuous deployment practices
• Experience with working on the edge of IT and business, with solid understanding of business aspects
• Basic understanding of DevOps ways