IT Release Management Consultant

The IT Release Management Consultant role is accountable for managing the end-to-end release process to promote the highest level of quality in a technology implementation/release. This role is responsible for coordination of overall release effort which includes managing all cross-functional team dependencies and accounting for business priorities to define, construct, certify and schedule an application/change release into the production environment. This role validates release schedules and approves emergency releases.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Manage all cross-functional team dependencies and consider business priorities when scoping, planning and certifying an application/change release into the production environment.
• Analyze and communicate likely impacts of the new release to technology and business areas.
• Work with production application managers/delivery team leads to ensure scheduled changes take place with little or no impact to the business (and when applicable with proper notification to the business).
• Ensure that policy, regulatory and control requirements are satisfied though execution of standard transition checklists and procedures.
• Ensure all application documentation is properly updated and signoff has been received at each phase of the cycle.
• Adhere to configuration management standards and methodologies when overseeing the software
• development cycle through test environments and production implementation.
• Manage all aspects of the end to end build and release process.
• Plan and manage changes and other deployment activities following change management, configuration management, project management and ITIL processes as per customer policies and procedures.
• Produce and manage a forward looking timeline for release windows and cycles across a portfolio of applications.
• Conduct Release readiness, milestone, and business go/no-go reviews.

• Required: Bachelor degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience. Preferred: Master degree in Business Administration, Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Required: Minimum of 8 years of combined experience in Information Technology.
• Required: Knowledge of Pharmaceutical industry.
• Required: Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion.
• Required: Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills.
• Required: Ability to prioritize and multi-task.
• Preferred: Advanced knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• Preferred: ITIL Foundation Certification. Preferred: ITIL Intermediate Certification in Release, Control and Validation.
• Preferred: Advanced written and verbal communication skills.
• Preferred: Strong problem resolution skills.