This role is currently work-from-home and will move to the office environment after the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

Release Manager/Engineer Springfield, MA Temp-to-perm Need to be onsite 3 days a week minimum when COVID restrictions are lifted.

This position is for a Release Manager/Engineer contractor with a possible conversion to Perm. There are multiple environment hubs or channels which support various stages of development for specific businesses. These hubs are driven off a main parent hub which includes a data warehouse, queuing and event management engine, microservices/APIs, ETL, Forms and Rules Engine. A release manager/engineer is needed to lead a team to manage the hubs/channels and environments. The following are required skills, knowledge and ***** Accountable for the Release Management lifecycle, to include scheduling, coordinating, and management of releases enterprise-wise for multiple applications. Hands on as Release manager in an agile environment with multiple development environments within a single release train. Must be able to management multiple release trains/channels, including promotion through lower environments and for production/pre-prod/performance environments in an AWS cloud environment using DevOps/CICD Experience with building and implementing release management practice from scratch including processes, procedures, documentation as well as onboard team members. Be able to identify the major components of Release Manage and what they entail Effectively guide defect management and change management within the release management structure. Coordinate and manage offshore team directly (India and/or Romania) Highly organized, articulate, resilient to people pulling and pushing, good soft skills to get very busy people to do what needs to be done. Create integrated processes with existing Data Center Production Support personnel and other Delivery Partners. Experience with the automation pipeline (CICD), application release automation tools, Jenkins, Git, as well as automation overall. Must have experience with version control and branching strategies of APIs, microservices, sql, Database, and test data within a single release branch as well as across parallel branches doing different streams of work that must converge Should have working knowledge of Database (MySQL, SQLserver, NOSQL), SQL development, API and Microservices development processes Design and create Reporting Metrics and SLAs around the release management functions.