Release Manager

Join Ford's Enterprise Technology team and leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience, and improve people's lives.

Requirements

• Release Management Activities: Managing and improving release processes, including checklists, rollback plans, code merges, Go/No-Go meetings, and change requests in ServiceNow.
• Rally & JIRA Administration: Administering Rally (and migrating to JIRA), ensuring data accuracy, and providing training.
• SharePoint & Shared Drive Maintenance: Managing access, maintaining documents, links, and URLs within SharePoint for the Warranty Product Group.
• CSPS/SPS Handling for OWS: Acting as a gatekeeper for lower environments, supporting changes in AMA, assisting with dealer creation, assigning roles, training users, and providing support.
• ID & Password Management: Tracking, planning, and coordinating password changes for various environments.
• Supplier Resource Management: Managing the onboarding and offboarding of supplier resources, ensuring proper access and maintaining active user lists.
• Audit & Compliance: Leading annual audits (internal/PwC), providing year-round support, and driving/supporting AFR (Annually).
• GitHub Support: Managing and approving code merges for Java and ETL projects.
• Business & PI Planning: Conducting monthly PI Planning sessions, training business teams on data extraction, facilitating retrospectives, and incorporating feedback.
• Communication & Coordination: Acting as the primary liaison between suppliers, PMs, and the core team, communicating release information, and sending reminders.
• Other Responsibilities: Maintaining the business delegation matrix and SCM document, maintaining links and URLs, conducting Scrum of Scrums, raising tickets to load test VINs, prioritizing/classifying defects & change requests.

Benefits

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