Release Manager job at KCB Bank Kenya
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Vacancy title:
Release Manager

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Banking , Category: Computer & IT ]

Jobs at:

KCB Bank Kenya

Deadline of this Job:
24 February 2023  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

The Position:
The role holder will be responsible for making new and changed services and features available for use by defining a standardized process for planning, building, and testing the release, scheduling the release, pushing the release, deploying the release, providing early life support and closure of releases.

Key Responsibilities:
• Define the standard process for planning, testing, scheduling, and deploying the releases.
• Own the responsibility of preparing a Release Plan. Coordinates with Change Management team, Build team and other key stakeholders regarding the same.
• Assign and track release activities with various teams.
• Packaging, controlling, and integrating the release components as per the dependencies identified.
• Coordinate the release schedule and resources required both internally and from third parties.
• Coordinate with the Build team to build the release and produce the build document, which will contain.
• Build, installation and test plans, procedures, and scripts.
• Monitoring and quality assurance of the release.
• Processes and procedures for distributing, deploying, and installing the release into the target environment.
• Release unit roll-back procedures.
• Change remediation steps in case of release failure.
• Ensure that all mandatory tests are conducted, and all tests are successful as per the success criteria before a release can be flagged off to production.
• Obtain the approvals for downtime-related information wherever necessary in advance and ensure that communications are send out to all stakeholders as per the release plan.
• Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected.
• Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the releases successfully.

The Person
For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:
• Bachelor's degree in IT/Engineering.
• Professional qualification in ITIL Foundation and Project Management.
• At least 5 years’ experience in release management in a large environment working multiple systems, with at least 4 years’ experience in application support, and at least 3 years supervisory experience and IT service processes management, and 2 years’ experience in project management.


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Banking/ Finance jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 24 February 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 15-02-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 15-02-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 15-02-2067
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