Release Manager

6 days ago


Sandton, South Africa Blue Label Telecoms Full time

**About Company**

We are a JSE-listed company that sells innovative technology for mobile commerce to emerging markets in South Africa and abroad. Our users are rich, poor, urban and rural, and we allow them all to interact and transact on an equal footing. We reach them by using both physical and virtual distribution channels. We target many of our services to people who do not have easy access to bank accounts, and we allow them the convenience of being able to transact where and when they want to. Our good reputation is our license to operate.

**Job Purpose**

**Responsibilities**

**Change Management and Release activities**
- Forward plan the release windows and cycles across a portfolio
- Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
- Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes
- Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations
- Conduct release readiness reviews and milestone reviews
- Produce deployment and implementation plans
- Weekly release planning and reporting
- Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required
- Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities
- Work with development teams to understand the impacts of branches and code merges

**Change Management and Release activities**
- Maintains the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors
- Continually work towards making improvements in the release process
- Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists
- Develops scripts and automation tools used to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms
- Participate in meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
- Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists

**Work collaboratively**
- Build a culture of respect and understanding across the organisation
- Recognise outcomes which resulted from an effective collaboration between teams
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organisation
- Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders to develop joint solutions
- Provide the required information to the relevant teams to ensure effective delivery of initiatives
- Strive to ensure deadlines are met and deviations are managed as prescribed by the ways of work

**Self-Management**
- Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
- Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands
- Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change
- Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational needs
- Continuous learning and self-development

**Behavioural Competencies**
- Ensures Accountability
- Manages Complexity
- Communicates Effectively
- Develops Talent
- Plans and Aligns
- Cultivates Innovation
- Decision Quality
- Directs Work
- Demonstrates Self-Awareness

**Skills**
- Action Planning
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Planning and Organizing
- Assessment
- Application Development
- IT Data Management
- Policy and procedures
- IT Testing
- Project Management
- Review and Reporting

**Education**
- Matric
- Relevant tertiary qualification

**Experience**
- Minimum 3 years experience within IT landscape, Project Management, Change
- Management or Release Management environment



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