Wells Fargo Release Lead - Operational & Enterprise Risk 

United States, North Carolina, Charlotte 

653500621

About this role:

The Release Lead has three main responsibilities; (1) ensures delivery is orchestrated across teams and dependent products (2) continuous improvement across the Product Line and Product and (3) technical release activities related to SDLC, ECM and CI/CD.

In this role, you will:

• Provide thought leadership to maintain customer centricity and facilitates activities that foster continuous improvement.
• Strategically engage with all levels of professionals, program or product managers and stakeholders to enhance transparency, resolve issues, and foster team empowerment; serves as an advisor to leadership and a peer mentor on technical change management policies.
• Plan and facilitate cross-product / internal product quarterly planning sessions to promote understanding of prioritized needs, estimate which deliverables must be achieved in the same cycle and potential impacts to live code across the technology eco-system.
• Support the product line management team and product team in connecting the activities needed to bring the working software into production, by holding collaborative and inclusive conversations and release mapping.
• Ensure transparency and clarity across the product on the synchronization of release events, including but not limited to the iterative development of feature roadmap(s), to help the team recognize potential dependencies and conflicts.
• Partners with product manager and technology groups to mitigate risk by holding a view of the full technology eco-system (e.g., infrastructure and 3rd party dependencies, financial implications of delays, hazards of implementations occurring ‘off-schedule’, impacts of production errors, etc.,)
• Communicate frequently with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement.
• Assists all delivery / release roles (where applicable) in understanding and adhering to all Enterprise requirements required for software implementation.
• Assists in ensuring compliance, SDLC and ECM/change management efforts are understood and adopted across the Product.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of Technical Project Management experience
• 4+ years of Requirement traceability, Release planning, and management experience in Agile SDLC environment.
• Excellent Communication skills with multiple levels of leadership
• Stakeholder Relationship Management

Desired Qualifications:

• Tool experience in Jira, Confluence and Service Now
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) experience

Job Expectations:

• The Release Lead position is responsible for the release management lifecycle, including scheduling, planning, collaborating, facilitating, and overall management of releases for multiple applications across various product areas for the business teams.
• Responsible for managing and enforcing release best practices, process and procedures for SDLC cycle.
• Responsible for cross-product technical dependency management.
• Understand technical architecture of cross-productintegrations/dependenciesand collaborate with technical architects for updating technical architecture documentation
• Configuration Management
• Collaborate closely with cross functional teams such as product management, software development, engineering to ensure releases are supported for on time and high level of quality
• Support the product line management team and product team in connecting the activities needed to bring the working software into production, by holding collaborative and inclusive conversations and release mapping.
• Ensure transparency and clarity across the product on the synchronization of release events, including but not limited to the iterative development of feature roadmap(s), to help the team recognize potential dependencies and conflicts.
• Partners with product manager and technology groups to mitigate risk by holding a view of the full technology eco-system (e.g., infrastructure and 3rd party dependencies, financial implications of delays, hazards of implementations occurring ‘off-schedule’, impacts of production errors, etc.,)
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Must be able to work on-site at any of the listed locations
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

300 S Brevard St., CHARLOTTE, North Carolina 28202

Pay Range

Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:

b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.