Position: Release Coordinator
Company: Playtech
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**Qualifications**
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 2+ years of experience working in Release Management.
• Experience in office and collaboration tools (SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence).
• Advanced knowledge of SCM and software repositories tools (Git/Jenkins/Bamboo/Nexus/Artifactory/Docker).
• Experience with CI/CD. • Experience being on an Agile team (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) and delivering work as part of that team.
• Experience in backend deployment processes, understanding of change management processes including release management.
• Knowledge of major tasks, deliverables, formal methodologies and disciplines for implementing new or enhanced applications with complex rollouts/release cycles.
• Results oriented, willing to take responsibility and accept accountability for action.
• Excellent oral and written skills with the ability to interact with senior management, technical subject matter experts, and business customers are all essential in this role.
• Demonstrable ability to plan and communicate release progress.
• Upper-intermediate English.

**Responsibilities**
• Extremely detail oriented personality with ability to maintain strict schedules.
• Track process and performance of released features.
• Ability to analyze, summarize information and provide it in a clear manner.
• Develop/maintain a release management discipline based on experience, best practices and proven methodologies.
• Contribute to the company knowledge base and process improvements.
• Lead release planning meetings and activities, conduct release readiness reviews, post implementation reviews to ensure successful deployments.
• Coordinate release issues and release dependencies.
• Serve as the key release representative in all communication, management and decision-making forums/discussions.
• Serve as an escalation point for all issues and questions associated with a release.
• Provide on-going written and verbal release status updates to various stakeholders.
• Define and establish release schedules.
• Coordinate tracking of defects during release phases; coordinate with Dev/QA/DevOps/PO to ensure follow up and closure of defects.
• Manage the risk and deployment of deliverables to production and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality.
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time.
• Maintain a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
• Track milestone signoffs, code freeze, exception approvals.
• Conduct post release reviews to improve and adjust the release management process.