Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- Project, Test/QA
- Employment Type
- Part Time/Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you plan and manage end-to-end release processes, facilitate release boards, analyze risks, and develop measures to ensure stable and high-quality software deployments in the grocery retail sector.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a Release Manager IT & Digitalization, you play a central role in planning, controlling, and quality assurance of our release processes in the retail food sector.
- You ensure that new features and systems are transferred to operations in a stable, transparent, and efficient manner - from coordination to go-live.
- In this role, you will work closely with development teams, Product Owners, test management, operations, IT security, and other stakeholders.
- You keep dependencies, risks, and schedules in view and ensure that releases are implemented transparently, stably, and traceably.
- Furthermore, you drive the further development of our release management governance and establish standards and processes for sustainable and scalable release control.
- You plan, coordinate, and manage end-to-end release cycles across multiple applications, platforms, and teams.
- You ensure that releases are carried out on time, with quality assurance, and traceability.
- You coordinate dependencies between development, testing, operations, and business units while maintaining an overall overview.
- You are responsible for release planning, including roadmaps, cutover plans, and go-live scenarios.
- You work closely with rollout and test management and ensure that defined quality criteria are met before a release.
- You analyze risks, manage escalations, and develop appropriate countermeasures in the release process.
- You moderate release boards and decision-making committees, ensuring transparency for all stakeholders.
- You continuously optimize release processes, standards, and governance structures (e.g., deployment strategies, CI/CD integration).
- You oversee releases until the stable handover to operations and assist with the analysis and follow-up of incidents and improvement measures.
- You establish and develop release management processes, roles, and responsibilities further, and support the expansion of release management as a central steering function.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- A completed degree or a comparable qualification rounds off your profile.
Qualifications
- Strong assertiveness as well as the ability to sustainably establish standards, processes, and governance requirements even in a demanding stakeholder environment.
- Proficient in common release, project, and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, or comparable solutions.
- Structured, committed, and pragmatic working style as well as a high level of quality and sense of responsibility.
- Excellent communication skills as well as confident stakeholder management at various organizational levels.
- Very good German and good English skills, both written and spoken.
Experience
- Several years of practical experience in release management of complex IT and system landscapes as well as in managing end-to-end release processes.
- Proven experience in establishing, developing, or professionalizing release management structures, governance models, and release processes.
- Experience in managing Release Boards as well as coordinating development, testing, operations, and other stakeholders throughout the entire release lifecycle.
- Experience in managing goal conflicts, dependencies, and escalations, as well as in facilitating necessary decisions even in the face of resistance.
- Solid knowledge of agile working methods and ideally experience with ITIL, change, and service management processes.
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What we offer
- Your life-work integration through flexible working hours, remote work, 30 days of vacation + regional cultural days, time-off models (sabbatical, caregiving leave, etc.), and on-site childcare.
- We invest in your future. With your annual training budget of approximately €2,000, you can focus on developing your individual skills.
- So stay curious and gather new input for yourself and all of us on our own learning platform, the "IT Learning Hub," at industry conferences, in technical books, or in one of the many free workshops from our Learning Canvas.
- Updates for you on in-house workshops and events, such as the hackathon and tech talks, as well as weekly stand-ups, regular tech all-hands, and open door formats.
- Your scope for co-determination regarding your hardware (MacBooks, ThinkPads) and operating system (MacOS, Linux, Windows) - look forward to modern IT equipment as well as a broad and innovative tech stack.
- Your impact, because you develop applications and services for millions of people - with over 1 billion data records daily, on more than 6 million phones, 32,000 cash registers, or in 7,300 markets.
- Your relaxed commute with the discounted Germany ticket, a Jobrad, and parking spaces right in front of the door.
- More time for yourself - take advantage of the opportunity to have up to two additional weeks of free time per year; individually planable, flexibly redeemable in consultation with your team.
- Our networks such as di.to. - different together, SHINE, f.ernetzt, WomEngineers @REWE digital, and Women's Drive make us a vibrant community and support you in your personal development.
- Advantages of a corporation for you, e.g., in the form of discounts at REWE, PENNY, toom Baumarkt, and the DERTOUR Group, comprehensive healthcare benefits, support for your retirement provision through asset-building benefits, and the REWE Pensionskasse.
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Benefits
Health, Fitness & Fun
Work-Life-Integration
- 🚌Excellent Traffic Connections
- 🐕Animals Welcome
- 🏝Extra Holidays
- 🏠Home Office
- ⏸Educational Leave/Sabbatical
- ⏰Flexible Working Hours
- 🅿️Employee Parking Space
More net
- 🏝️Summer and Christmas Bonus
- 📱Company Phone for Private Use
- 💻Company Notebook for Private Use
- 👴🏻Company Retirement Provision
- 🛍Employee Discount
- 🚎Public Transport Allowance
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This is your employer
REWE Digital GmbH
As drivers of the digital innovation of the REWE Group, we are responsible for all strategic online activities of one of Europe's leading trade and tourism companies. Our most important brands at home and abroad include REWE, Penny, Billa, Merkur, BIPA, ITS , DER Touristik Meier's World Travel Jahn Reisen and Toom Hardware Store.
Description
- Company Type
- Digital Agency
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
IT Release Manager
- Location
- Cologne
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
