PM, Release Manager

Company Profile

At Sand Cherry Associates, we excel in the design and delivery of strategic customer-centric initiatives through digitally native, data-empowered solutions. Our client’s confidence in us is centered on exceptionally skilled, high-energy talent working with the full support of Sand Cherry.

Overview

Sand Cherry is looking for a PM, Release Train Manager to support a large organization with their release planning for a business unit. This role requires a blend of experience in release management, project management, and scrum master capabilities. This role is responsible for bringing best practices and proven methodologies into the environment. The role will work closely with Development teams, Program/Project Managers, and other Business Units.

This position is a remote role but qualified candidates will need to live in the United States and be able to work multiple time zones, MST, CST and EST. Candidates must already be fully authorized to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship or C2C.

Responsibilities

• Extracts and distills key requirements from conversations into deliverables and/or visualizations for contributing teams
• Builds new process structures and templates to improve standardization across teams, identifying best practices and simplifying the unnecessarily complex issues
• Collaborate with teams post-standardization on consistency and compliance
• Executes on multiple deliverables in parallel efficiently and accurately
• Investigates information independently to develop full understanding and can articulate key points back to leadership
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and proactively provides recommended solutions
• Expert ability to transition between tasks and focus energy on the relevant business need – flexible to change
• Coordinate release content and efforts based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
• Product Deployment, Run Books, and Implementation Plans
• Weekly Release Reporting and communication of release details and schedules
• Attends daily stand-ups with Development Teams
• Act as pseudo–Scrum Master, running and managing daily standups and sprint planning
• Act as point of contact for ticket blockers, and de-conflicts release timing
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes
• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Measure and monitor release progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations

• Provide tools and services to help product management and project teams manage and deploy releases into production
• Collaborate with all participants in software development projects and support developers and testers as they set up their build dev/test environments

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years Project/Program management experience and familiarity with methodologies and tools is required
• Minimum of 3-5 years in release planning cycles and knowledge of scrum practices
• Knowledge of navigating and updating multiple tools utilized- JIRA, Chalk, Smartsheet, and conducting Internet research

• Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and requirements writing
• Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional work teams
• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills are necessary
• Bachelor's Degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field is required
• PMP certification and/or Scrum Master certification preferred

Benefits

Our team is unique — we are passionate about what we do. At Sand Cherry, our Consultants know they are impacting and shaping our clients’ industries. We recognize our employees for their contributions. Our culture is one of the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry. Sand Cherry is not a top-heavy organization. We offer the opportunity to be part of a digital workforce. Discover the experience that only comes with self-responsibility in the workplace. Our team members manage their own workloads and are expected to deliver exceptional work for our clients. Professional career growth is one of our main priorities, as we affirm that investing in our Consultants and empowering our people will also deliver the best results and value for our clients.