Job Description

IBM Release Manager in Washington, District Of Columbia

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients.

Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM is looking for a highly motivated individual interested in overseeing and coordinating all aspects of software releases through the development lifecycle. This individual works closely with cross-functional teams from IBM, software partners, and the client to plan, schedule, and execute releases, ensuring that all system components are properly integrated, tested, and documented.

The Release Manager is quality-focused, has a strong understanding of DevOps practices, managing releases across multiple SaaS components, version control systems, Jira, and deployment processes as well as a detailed understanding of government compliance and security requirements including FedRAMP.

Key responsibilities include:

1. Managing release schedules.
2. Facilitating communications between development, shared services operations team, and stakeholder teams.
3. Overseeing change management processes.
4. Maintaining release documentation.

The ideal candidate will possess excellent organizational and leadership skills, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and resolve conflicts on a complex program with a demanding and aggressive timeline.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

1. Plan and manage release schedules and milestones.
2. Proactively identify and mitigate risks and remove obstacles to release. Facilitate releases by coordinating with multiple cross-functional teams.
3. Deep knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
4. Delivering releases in a hybrid agile model with sprints followed by traditional waterfall Systems Integration Test (SIT) and User Acceptance Test (UAT) testing cycles.
5. Managing and coordinating releases across multiple cloud-based SaaS configurable solutions.
6. Review and maintain adherence to established processes and standards, highlight gaps and facilitate mitigation.
7. Manage mitigation/remediation plans and report in proper channel.
8. Communicate plans and status and escalate issues as required.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

1. At least 6 years of IT Release Management experience in a Federal Government IT application development environment.
2. Experience with managing software releases for a FedRAMP authorized solution.
3. Expertise in Release Management, Project Management and/or Product Management including driving and overseeing scrum of scrums, and effectively planning releases for large-scale system integrations.
4. Familiarity with various project management tools and proven experience working with AWS.
5. Experience with implementation and reviewing Agile/hybrid processes, maintaining JIRA dashboards and backlogs, Epics, User Stories.
6. Ability to improve and maintain new and existing processes.
7. A credible, results-driven professional that is willing to go the extra mile. Takes ownership to deliver quality, with a high level of flexibility and preparedness to get the job done.
8. Excellent communication skills: verbal, written and presentation.

About Business Unit

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market-leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that dedication to our clients' success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment every day, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth-minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Location Statement

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well-being.

Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long-term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance-based salary incentive programs.

Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, and 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future.

Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

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