Release Manager

Company Description

Unitask Group provides solutions for the management of information, knowledge and related processes, enhancing organizational infrastructure and control to bring a competitive edge, a boost in growth and higher profit.

We are proud of our finest IT talents who drives our clients to success! Since its establishment in 1994, Unitask has maintained a high level of professionalism, quality solutions and excellent service and is considered a world leader in Oracle business solutions.

We invite you to join the team of professionals on our exciting journey into the excellence, be a part of our vision and share in our success. We are looking for creative and skilled individuals like you!

Project Description

Teva is an Israeli multinational pharmaceutical company https://www.tevapharm.com/.

Responsibilities

• You will own the Release Management lifecycle which includes scheduling, coordinating and managing the releases across the enterprise for multiple strategic applications under Application Delivery. The releases can be inclusive of application updates, operating system patches, security improvements, hardware upgrades, Projects and Programs. Where necessary you'll provide tools and services to help product management and project teams manage and deploy releases into production.

• You would also work with different IT management, including Infrastructure and AMS, to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software and environments.

• You will assist in managing projects and interdependencies to ensure milestone adherence to ensure the integrity of the release can be measured.

• Forward plan the release windows and cycles across the Application Delivery portfolio

• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality

• Communicate all key release plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes

• Produce Production Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans

• Weekly Release Reporting

• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required

• Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities

• Work with development\Functional\AMS teams to understand impacts of branches and code retrofits and merges

• Maintains the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.

• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process

• Lead and co-ordinate the Technical Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.

• Participate in meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks

• Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists

• Researches new software development and configuration management methodologies and technologies and analyzes their application to current configuration management needs

• Orchestrate and coordinate relevant integration activities to support key activities of Release

Requirements

Mandatory:

• 3 years minimum experience as SAP Release Manager

• 6 years minimum of SAP projects experience

• 3 years minimum of Project Management experience in operations/administration

Preferred:

• Release management in non SAP and /or cloud applications

• SAP development experience and /or SAP Funactional consultanting and/or SAP Basis experience

• Professional experience in managing complex work environments, integrating multiple teams and activities

• Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle

• High ability to coordinate cross teams work toward one task completion

• High ability to solve conflicts between contredicted customers requirments

• Strong communication and peoples skills

• Strong spoken and written stils in the English language

• Able to balance and prioritize in accordance with project's goals and time lines.

• Ability to work in a matrix environment

• Manage teams across different timezone

• Ability to build strong working relationships across teams centrally, extended IT and business teams in country

• Attention to detail, precision, thoroughness and ability to identify and solve issues

• Analytical, high attention to overall picture, able to prioritize

• Ability to develop and evolve long-term strategies while driving tactical projects

• Customer-orientated

• This job requires national and international travel up to 10% of the time

• Upper-Intermediate English - for writing, reading and speaking

We offer

• Career and professional development of your personal strength in the international group

• Fun & creative work environment in a fast growing company

• Opportunity to choose days of remote work

• Comfortable office in SilverBreeze area of Kyiv

• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)

• Medical top-up and social benefits

• English classes

• Democratic banking policy - you can cooperate with us through any legal Ukrainian bank you choose

• We speak both English and Russian - we'll help you improve your English on the job