Lead Associate, Release Management

The Lead Associate, Release Management position at BetaNXT involves supporting the scheduling, coordination, and verification of all Mediant's technology/application releases. You will collaborate with QA and Developer Leads to ensure builds are validated before deployment to Production and organize artifacts for release. Additionally, you will work with IT management to enhance software engineering processes and practices related to building, deploying, updating software, and maintaining environments. As part of your responsibilities, you will assist in triaging issues in Production, performing Root Cause Analysis to identify bug introductions, and providing feedback to enhance engineering processes. Your key functions will include implementing and managing release processes for software applications, APIs, and various IT initiatives. You will validate release features, prepare release instructions, and coordinate resources required for deployment. Working closely with QA Leads, you will establish and maintain a bug triage process, prioritize bugs for fixes, and ensure timely resolution by the scrum team. Collaboration with Developers, QA, and DevOps teams to identify and evaluate risks related to releases is essential. You will conduct Root Cause Analysis for discovered bugs, assist in troubleshooting production issues, and coordinate resources to address them. Managing projects and interdependencies to ensure production readiness for all system updates will also be part of your role. To be successful in this position, you should have at least 6+ years of experience and be familiar with build, deployment, and versioning software such as Bamboo and BitBucket. Experience working in a Cloud environment, preferably AWS, is required. Previous experience in the financial services and securities industry is preferred. You should be comfortable testing software applications, APIs, and database objects/SQL, with experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Release Management for a rapidly growing company. Familiarity with software development tools like GIT, GitLab, Docker, Postman, and Splunk is beneficial. A B.S degree is required, while an advanced degree or equivalent experience is preferred. Strong project management and communication skills are necessary, along with experience in Software Quality Assurance or Verification of Release Builds. Experience with build and release processes, especially deploying in a Cloud environment, is preferred. Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies and SQL skills to write queries and understand existing stored procedures and functions are also valuable assets in this role.,