Release Manager

1 week ago


Sandton, South Africa Dimension Data Full time

**As a Release Manager**

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Set cadence for releases and co-ordinate with relevant platform administrative teams
- Would be responsible for planning and scheduling development
- Overseeing technical design documents
- Control developers’ capacity and delivery
- Manage the SDLC for development such as; Grooming specs with functional team; Have view of entire customization structure and approach; Overview of testing and quality
- Architectural overview is required
- Supported by Senior Technical Leads
- Tracking workloads to completion including dependencies
- Co-ordination of releases with CAB
- Co-ordination with 3rd parties, ISV’s, etc. as part of deployments and upgrades
- Risk management in relation to code deployment, providing guidance and recommended actions to teams and other stakeholders

**Skills and Competencies**:

- Project management skills
- Proven CI/CD background
- Proven SDLC experience in release management role
- Experience in SCRUM
- Proven experience using Azure DevOps
- Knowledge and understanding of Microsoft D365 (CE and F&O) Infrastructure and Architecture
- (advantageous)
- X++ Development or C# Development (advantageous)
- Proficient in LCS (Life Cycle Services) (advantageous)

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required
- Five years of experience as a release manager in the Information Technology area with at least two years of experience working within CRM and ERP Teams.
- At least 2 years of experience in a release management role with ability to manage multiple releases and ensure delivery on time and within budget.
- Minimum of three years experience in software release management, test automation, and continuous integration.
- Experience with Agile development process preferred.

**Soft Skills**:

- Good communicator
- Good planner
- Good coordination and liaison
- Leadership skills
- Team management
- Time management
- Attention to detail


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