Agile DevOps Release Manager - W2 Position

Job Title: Agile DevOps Release Manager

Visa: USC/GC

Location: Jacksonville (preferred), Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Dallas, Birmingham or Phoenix

Duration: 6 months C2H

Interview Mode: Phone then Video

Rate: $53/hr on W2

Note: Candidates must be fulling all yellow lines skills matrix with years of experience.

Describe the must have technical skills/experience (ask for alternative/tool/version) of the position in priority order:

• Understanding Agile methodologies
• Microsoft office
• Dev Ops
  
  

Effective communication with multiple levels including executive leadership 6 + Years

Effective time management 6 + Years

Extremely organized and detail oriented 6 + Years

Proficient with excel 6 + Years

Project Management experience or experience with coordinating changes across multiple teams and/or locations 6 + Years

Team management/leadership experience 6 + Years

Understanding of Agile methodology 6 + Years

understanding of building reports in applications like Power BI and Tableau < 1 Year

Is there anything you are willing to flex on if there is not a candidate under the current market conditions with all your must have skills?

• CI /CD pipeline - nice to have
• Branch cutting - nice to have
• GIT Bucket - nice to have
• Azure devops - nice to have
  
  

Does this position require any degrees or certifications for the candidate to be successful?

• Any certifications are a plus -- experience ok
• PM Background nice to have
  
  

Responsibilities

Describe the role and the key responsibilities in order of which they will be doing day 1 and frequently followed by those they will be doing as the project/work progresses:

• Coordinating releases across all agile crews
• Regular meeting with QE Scrum Masters and Developers about code going into productions
• Opening changing request and moving through governance process
  
  

Describe The Industry Background Your Team Is Comprised

Supporting 8 agile crews

• Multiple meetings via teams weekly
• Manager touch bases regular to ensure the candidates is comfortable
  
  

Describe the current initiatives that this resource will be impacting: Supportive of all their scrum groups

• Supporting releases for retail servicing type work
  
  

Ability to work remote: No

Remote details and time zone(s): N

Target Start Date : ASAP

Intended length of Assignment: 46 weeks appx. --- extension very likely

Potential for Contract Extension: Yes

Working Hours (Flexible): Yes

Travel: Yes or No

Days of the week: M-F, 40 hours, 8-5 EST)

If project, which project(s) will this need be supporting? Is this part of a larger initiative?

Supports all unique projects on the team

Describe the impact this role has within the bank/LOB (i.e., mitigating risk, cost reduction, revenue, etc.): Mitigating Risk/Cost reduction

Tell me about some soft skills that would make a candidate successful in this role:

• Strong written verbal communication --- High level communication
• Presentation skills
• Self-starter
• Goal oriented
• Effective time management
• Effective team management and leadership skills
  
  

Role Differentiator

Market Demand -- etc.

Describe what is different about this specific role compared to others hiring for the same skill set?

• There is a lot of flexibility to learn and grow while touching many moving parts and pieces
• An opportunity to learn and grow in the areas of interest.
• This group is unique in collaborating well, by collectively understanding the end goal and work well to get to that point
• A new role with a unique opportunity to define what it looks.