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Sompo · 17 hours ago

IT Release Manager

Garden City, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$95K/yr - $135K/yr

5+ years exp

Sompo is seeking an IT Release Manager to join their Information Technology team. This role is responsible for planning, managing, and coordinating the delivery of software releases across the organization, ensuring smooth and timely deployments while aligning with organizational goals.

Health InsuranceInsuranceRisk Management

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Define and manage the release schedule, ensuring alignment with business priorities and deadlines

Work with all team leads to understand resource capacity for each release end-to-end

Coordinate and oversee release planning meetings, ensuring all stakeholders are informed and aligned

Develop and maintain release documentation, including end-to-end schedules

Identify risks, dependencies, and conflicts across the E2E application lifecycle and implement mitigation strategies

Act as the primary point of contact for all release-related activities and communications

Work closely with business analysis, development, quality assurance testing, infrastructure, and operations to deliver release scope

Coordinate release work items across systems and teams, manage dependencies, resolve conflicts and ensure timely and effective handoffs

Coordinate end-to-end integration tests where applicable ensuring data, environments and timing are all coordinated across systems

Collaborate with operational teams to ensure proper business change management related to each release

Collaborate with project managers to manage dependencies between project timelines align with release schedules

Coordinate release builds and deployments. Ensure all items being released meet the testing and readiness requirements for deployment

Coordinate with the Change Approval Board to ensure compliance with all production deployment requirements

Establish, maintain and analyze metrics and KPIs that can be used to manage the process effectively for end-to-end release management across all production applications and data in a consistent and accurate format

Establish a reporting package that can be shared with business stakeholders that effectively communicates IT’s release statuses, deliveries and performance

Evaluate and implement improvements to the release process on an ongoing basis, including changes to the ADO workflow

Qualification

Release ManagementAzure DevOpsJIRAResource Capacity PlanningApplication Delivery MetricsTroubleshootingCommunication SkillsDetail OrientedOrganizational Skills

Required

Degree in Management, Business, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

5+ years' experience in application development and delivery

2+ years of release management experience with experience planning multiple releases across systems

Proficiency in release management tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, JIRA)

Experience in resource capacity planning across teams

Knowledge of application delivery and release metrics

Detail oriented, organized and structured

Ability to coordinate between business and technical teams and understand standard terminology for both. Provide clear, honest and effective communication, both written and verbal

Proficient at trouble shooting and optimizing in a production environment

Benefits

Two medical plans to choose from, including a Traditional PPO & a Consumer Driven Health Plan with a Health Savings account providing a competitive employer contribution

Pharmacy benefits with mail order options

Dental benefits including orthodontia benefits for adults and children

Vision benefits

Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

Company-paid Life & AD&D benefits, including the option to purchase Supplemental life coverage for employee, spouse & children

Company-paid Disability benefits with very competitive salary continuation payments

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with competitive employer contributions

Competitive paid-time-off programs, including company-paid holidays

Competitive Parental Leave Benefits & Adoption Assistance program

Employee Assistance Program

Tax-Free Commuter Benefit

Tuition Reimbursement & Professional Qualification benefits

Company

Sompo

We’re Sompo, a global provider of property, casualty, and specialty insurance and reinsurance.

Founded in 1999

Hamilton, Hamilton, BMU

5001-10000 employees

https://www.sompo-intl.com/

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