Package Description
Full details on application.
Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).
Job Introduction
Serco is a specialist at delivering vital services on behalf of European, National and Local Governments.
Serco Europe employ’s a large workforce in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy and the UK.
Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions throughout Europe.
Serco’s space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies - We work alongside EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency, where we are the largest on-site service provider with ca. 300 staff.
What connects the ever growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service – To keep ahead we have to constantly evolve and enhance the way we deliver our services and everyone in Serco has a role to play here.
Serco provide the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.
If you share our values then join with over 100,000 colleagues globally who are equally as passionate about delivering great service as you.
Main Responsibilities
We are currently seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented Software Release Manager to work in an exciting and challenging EU Government environment.The customer would like somebody very operational.
Tasks:
- The Release Manager will assist in managing projects and interdependencies to ensure milestone adherence to ensure the integrity of the release can be measured.
- The Release Manager will be a link between Project manager and JAVA development team and will establish / follow existing Release Management procedures, processes, metrics, and standards.
- Act as primary liaison between other functional groups for configuration and release management purposes
- He/she will oversee each release, the build and the follow up of the integrations
- You will be responsible for implementing and managing release processes for code through development, test, and production environments.
- Ensure development groups create, build and release software packages for testing and release purposes as per defined procedures and standards.
- Ensure Release Management documentation set is maintained.
- Ensure projects maintain configuration control of software baselines and modifications.
- The Release Manager Job function works collaboratively with all participants in software development projects and is supportive of developers and testers as they set up their build dev/test environments.
- This position also works with IT management to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software and environments.
- The Release Management responsibilities also include building the IT Release Calendar in working closely with the IT release managers from different portfolios across IT and centralizing view of all releases.
- Leads the effort of defining the IT strategic direction for release management tools for IT to ensure the process requirements of release management are built in.
- Ensure Release Management processes are developed further, continuously monitored and improved to ensure optimal efficiency.
Successful Candidate
- Minimum 10 years of strong experience with a combination of intensive competency/practice management in Oracle environment
- Strong experience Release Management
Excellent knowledge of software deployment management
Excellent knowledge of software release management;
Knowledge of application servers;
Knowledge of building and deployment tools (Jenkins, Maven, Weblogic, Bamboo);
Good knowledge of modelling tools (e.g. UML);
- ITIL knowledge an advantage
- Strong technological background, with degree level technical / engineering qualification in Computer Science or equivalent
- Excellent English skills, French would be an advantage
Important
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Please contact a member of the recruitment team if you require further details of acceptable types of documentation required for verification of identity and work authorization.
For positions located within the Darmstadt Support Office please note that only applicants with no family affiliation within the Company will be considered.
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About the Company
Serco Services GmbH, part of the Serco group, A FTSE250, Multi-national Service Provider with over 100,000 employees worldwide.