Release Manager

As a Release Manager, you will be primarily responsible the management and protection of releases through, where appropriate, Build/Develop, QA, UAT, Pre-Prod and Production environments across the Digital estate.

We offer Flexible/Hybrid working across our Watford or London offices

We need people who are keen to learn and find new ways of doing things. Team players who are proud of their work and want to help others flourish. If you like working in a fast-paced environment, driven by a desire to improve your capabilities, our services/offerings, everything we do and keep up-to-date with the latest technologies.

**Responsibilities**:

- Negotiating, planning and managing all release activities.
- Analysing risks and resolving issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality.
- Working cohesively with external partners, suppliers and product owners.
- Developing common strategies for release governance across multiple systems
- Communicating release details and schedules to the Business as required.
- Act as guardian to uphold the integrity of the branching strategy and ensure processes are optimised to enable frequent and smooth releases
- Know and understand impacts of branches and code merges in the repositories used by the dev teams.
- Work with third party managed-hosting providers to increase automated processes end-to-end
- Work with the development teams.
- Coach and help automate release processes.
- Inform senior management of enterprise-wide exposure to release risk and effectively mitigate it
- Create, track and maintain a published enterprise-wide release and deployment calendar.
- Know the tech stack of the development process so you can participate and discuss with the development teams the challenges of the full delivery workflow. A core background in eCommerce technologies is a must.
- Maintain release documentation and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
- Work with Infrastructure teams to improve a process, pass awareness of potential problems risks and oversee that the process is fit for the Release process needs.
- Work closely with Project Management to ensure the efficiency of the delivery of Programs and Projects (Control, Plan, Measure, Predict and React).
- Work with Service Management in the Post-Mortem analysis and improvements identification.

**What we want from you**:

- Experience in DevOps related Release Management
- Experience in software development, preferably on web (e-commerce) sites.
- Knowledge in software build, repository and maintenance tools like Jenkins, GitLab or any other automation build and deployment tools.
- Experience working in agile environments with SCRUM methodologies.
- Familiarity with Docker containers and/or other Microservices deployment methodologies.
- Passionate about delivering quality software and defending the customer/end-user perspective.
- Good communication skills and teamwork believer.
- Strong time management & organisational skills.
- Interested in automating things.
- You like to learn and investigate new technologies that the company is working with or will work in the future.
- Experience in Continuous Integration, Delivery, Deploy methodologies.
- Excellent negotiation skills and an ability to handle sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy.

**What we’ll give you**:
The opportunity to work with some of the most respected brands across the world. We will give you respect for who you are, allow you to be yourself, empower you to make a difference and give you opportunities to grow and develop your skills.

We currently offer a great benefits package including, hybrid working that works for everyone, social events, training opportunities, medical and dental insurance, life assurance, meal cards and much more

We want Wunderman Thompson Commerce to be the place where you do your best work We are passionate about your wellbeing and your personal development and offer various learning opportunities to help with your career progression. We have designed our benefits to align with our culture and values and to help you get the most out of working with us.

We take fun seriously and have a strong WT community, both inside and out of the workplace. In each office you will find a games area to help you unwind and take a break We think it is very important to celebrate and socialise whenever we can. Apart from our amazing Christmas parties, each office hosts a number of events each year including cocktail nights, roof terrace parties, departmental lunches and much more
- Competitive salary
- 24 days annual leave
- Life assurance
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Health assessments
- Career progression
- Global mobility
- Discounts in some local restaurants
- Health and wellbeing classes (Yoga, etc.)
- Flexible working environment and well-being support and tools;
- Meal Card (non taxable)
- Free coffee
- Company laptop (Working with the latest hardware)
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