Software Program Release Manager

Requisition Number: 202289

External Description:

Key Areas of Responsibility: 

This role is for an Initiative Release Manager responsible for planning, managing and coordinating the program activities required to release Teradata Software Products. The Initiative Release Manager is responsible for understanding and supporting these processes and defining new approaches to enhance the productivity of the realization activities. 

Teradata projects and programs follow a defined realization process established within Teradata Labs. We are a CMMI 3 organization following a modified agile development.

Detailed Job Description: 

As an Initiative Release Manager, you will own large, highly visible software development initiatives and drive them to engineering complete. The Initiative Release Manager will have a solid understanding of scaled Agile in a large, cross-functional organization. You will be responsible to provide program team members with a strategic business perspective while dealing tactically with the daily issues of coordinating, organizing and facilitating multiple agile software development teams. Your skills will include Program Increment Planning kickoff, cross-team collaboration, conflict resolution, risk mitigation and schedule management. The Initiative Release Manager will have the experience and skills necessary to continuously improve the way we develop and deliver Teradata products worldwide. 

Daily Responsibilities 

• Managing Teradata Engineering Initiative to engineering complete 
• Developing the overall program plan, coordinating project schedules, managing resource requirements, managing and mitigating risk, and tracking and following up on internal and external dependencies 
• Ensuring that required process artifacts are generated and preserved 
• Leading and facilitating regular program team meetings, team coordination, action item tracking and release content management. 
• Working with Product Managers, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to align business strategy and program execution. 
• Anticipating, minimizing and mitigating risks for the Teradata Database release 
• Interfacing with other organizations and coordinating schedules/interdependencies 
• Work with Product Owners on prioritization  
• Identifying quality and productivity improvement actions 
• Escalating critical issues as necessary 
• Special projects as assigned 

Qualifications:

A Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline and ten years in related program management or engineering management is required for this role. This role also requires a demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple simultaneous complex projects, excellent communication skills and a willingness to provide process guidance to individuals, teams and programs. 

Other Information:

The ideal candidate should have prior experience in program or project management in a large scale agile environment. He or she must have excellent written and oral communication skills and a track record of producing results in a team environment. Appropriate certifications (for example, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSP, SAFe RTE) are desirable.

Reports to: Director of Release Management

Location: San Diego, CA  

Local candidates preffered.

 

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City: San Diego

State: California

Community / Marketing Title: Software Program Release Manager

Job Category: Engineering

Company Profile:

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