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Manage Release activities within information technology (IT) tasks and staff
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Manage risks and resolve issues that affect the release scope, schedule, and quality.
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Forward-plan the release windows and cycles across the company.
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Coordinate the Risk and Impact Analysis phase of the release and create a release plan based on the assessment information.
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Have knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
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Use CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, etc.) and version control systems (Git, Bitbucket, etc.) to maintain release artifacts and ensure accuracy.
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Communicate all important release plans, statuses, commitments, and changes, including requirements, Quality Assurance (QA) plans, schedule, and scope changes.
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Maintain familiarity with current and upcoming IT equipment, services, and other developments.
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Work with Quality Assurance (QA), Development, DevOps, and Product teams to ensure that development projects follow the release process and change procedure guidelines.
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Communicate with regulatory bodies.
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Provide end-to-end oversight of release delivery and lead required release management activities.
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Facilitate the Release Go/No-Go meetings, readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and provide regular status updates to all team members.
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Maintain the release schedule.
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Work with management to make improvements in the release process.
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Manage functional and non-functional releases.
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Provides direction for the quality assurance and release planning team to meet all LCBO needs
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Participate in the Change Advisory Board (CAB) to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks.
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Coordinate and communicate test plans and progress of new solutions to ensure the performance and interface into enterprise systems meet functional requirements and technical specifications.
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Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone reviews, and business GO/NO-GO reviews.
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Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities.
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Maintain the release schedule for all important services and ensure understanding across key partners and vendors.
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Train, coach, and mentor release stakeholders to achieve industry best practices for release management/governance.
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Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality.
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Reset priorities and take corrective action as required.
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Responsible for mitigation of all audit gaps as identified by annual audits
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Assist with compliance audits and remediation of PCI and Security Standards as identified by the business
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Participate in the on-going quarterly reviews of all applications for PCI and Security
