Micro Focus Looking for IT Release Manager at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

Job Description:
Who we are:
Micro Focus is one of the world’s largest enterprise software providers, delivering the mission-critical software that keeps the digital world running. We combine pragmatism, discipline, and customer-centric innovation to deliver trusted, proven solutions that customers need in order to succeed in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace. That’s high tech without the drama

Information Technology IT Release Management

Job family group: Information Technology

Job family: IT Build & Delivery /Release

Job family definition:
Micro Focus is looking for an IT Release Manager who can come in and make the job their own. We are currently rapidly expanding our teams and looking for an individual to join the team and be part of shaping the maturity journey we are on as an CIO function.

The candidate should have experience on IT Release Management, which will need to include project management disciplines, for complex application landscape including enterprise applications and SaaS products like SalesForce, Workday and NetSuite.

Role would be part of IT Release function responsible to plan, schedule, govern and control the movement of both BAU fixes and new projects to controlled test environments and ultimately to production.

Micro Focus is an international company with offices and employees in many locations around the world. As such, there is a significant amount of work across time zones and differing cultures. The ability to work on distributed teams with customers from all regions of the world is essential.

The team is consistently looking to review and evolve current ways of working, this is a wonderful opportunity to contribute and help drive change in the way the function operates, ensuring best practice processes are adopted.

Micro Focus is an international company with offices and employees in many locations around the world. As such, there is a significant amount of work across time zones and differing cultures. The ability to work on distributed teams with customers from all regions of the world is essential.

Responsibilities

Scheduling, managing and coordinating releases across multiple applications within various portfolios across different teams and projects.

Ensure that all teams follow the process and governance defined, and perform quality checks on releases

Ensure appropriate checkpoints are met and coordinate release sign-off

Monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of the release processes, and make improvement as required

Complete post implementation reviews for planned changes, categorised as minor and major releases

Working with impacted stakeholders to derive relevant approvals and timeframes for code migration into production

Continuously monitor projects and provide reports about their progress.

Manage and mitigate risks and resolve issues regarding release quality and schedule.

Flexibility to train/adapt to ad hoc and emerging requirements for MF IT Build & Deliver function

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

3-6 years of previous IT release management experience

3-6 years of previous experience in a fast-paced operations environment working within an ITIL framework

3-6 years of experience in information systems IT/CIO/CDO operations environment in systems analysis or development

Knowledge and Skills

Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle and different delivery models such as waterfall, agile et al

Experience of ITSM tool sets

General PC knowledge including Microsoft Office expert level knowledge of Excel, Project, Power Point

Knowledge of SAAS ERP and CRM products such as Netsuite, Workday, Salesforce preferred

Soft Skills

Strong analytical capabilities, highly organised and excellent relationship management skills

Advanced written and verbal communication skills are a must

Influencing skills and ability to work effectively in a geographically dispersed team.

Effective communicator who can work seamlessly with technical and non-technical resources.

A Team Player with strong team ethos and a CAN- DO attitude.

Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced and continually evolving environment.

Ability to build professional relationship with colleagues.

Self-driven and proactive attitude to identify risks/issues and to mitigate/solve them.

Flexibility to accommodate out of hours /weekend work to accommodate Release windows, , releases, quarter end and year end activities etc.

Take proactive ownership of assigned work packages.

Job:
Information Technology

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