Release Manager (San Jose, CA)

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

The IBM Software Core team is hiring for a skilled Release Manager to contribute to the successful release management of a large portfolio of IBM products. With approximately 60 services delivering on our common platform, we are searching for someone to:

• Create and execute new release management processes to facilitate flexible release timelines for our software platform and the dozens of products that deliver on it
• Develop new release management tooling to ensure accuracy and full coverage of release requirements while reducing time to completion and cost of delivery
• Contribute innovative suggestions for process improvement and automation
• Create and execute release management plans including schedules and deliverable requirements based on the software category (for example, platform component or full product)
• Work closely with our IBM software development teams and IBM Business Partners to achieve successful completion of all of IBM's Go-To-Market (GTM) deliverables
• Serve as a credible and trusted advisor to stakeholders
• Effectively mitigate release risks as they arise
• Cultivate teamwork and problem-solving while working under challenging delivery expectations and deadlines
• Provide leadership, mentoring, motivation to more junior team members

Ensure project completion on time and budget

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 10+ Years of release management experience
• A proven track record of release management using agile best practices to successfully deliver products on aggressive schedules
• Comprehensive understanding of the entire software development lifecycle and GTM requirements
• Demonstrable success in communication and personal relationship development at all levels - from engineers to execs - with experience navigating across all pillars of the business: Development, Support, Security, Legal, Finance
• Strong collaboration skills as you work across the partner and IBM team
• Experience working with a broad spectrum of technology solutions
• Expertise at working independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, dynamic development environment
• Enthusia sm for learning new technologies and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Exceptional knowledge of data structures, algorithms, enterprise systems, asynchronous architectures, and object-oriented programming
• Experience with popular AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform services for compute, storage, and databases etc.
• Experience developing Single Page Web Applications and frameworks like React or equivalent.
• Experience developing JS, CSS, HTML sites.
• Professional experience building REST APIs

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