Senior IT Technologist - Release Management

As a Senior IT Technologist - Release Management at Medtronic, you will be a seasoned individual contributor responsible for overseeing the entire lifecycle of software releases. This includes meticulous planning, scheduling, and controlling development and deployment processes across multiple platforms. You will play a critical role in ensuring that software releases are delivered on time, within scope, and with exceptional quality, directly contributing to Medtronic's purpose of breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

You will drive efficient and high-quality software releases by:

• Managing and coordinating the end-to-end release process, including planning, scheduling, and executing software releases across multiple platforms.
• Collaborating with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure the smooth and timely deployment of software.
• Creating and maintaining a release calendar, working closely with stakeholders to align releases with business priorities.
• Identifying, managing, and mitigating risks and issues related to software releases.
• Ensuring that release processes and procedures are followed, including adherence to change management and compliance requirements.
• Conducting release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and go/no-go decision meetings.
• Documenting and communicating release plans, schedules, and status updates to all stakeholders.
• Continuously improving release management processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Developing and managing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure and report on the success of release activities.
• Establishing and maintaining release cadence and coordinating activities across technical teams.
• Building and maintaining deployment schedules and activities across multiple non-production environments.
• Facilitating status meetings and release planning meetings.
• Building detailed cutover plans and clearly understanding the dependencies across the release.
• Ensuring all required tasks are included on the cutover plan and executed in the allotted time.
• Driving continuous improvement to make each release process better and faster.
• Providing clear verbal and written communications to teams and stakeholders.
• Building detailed refresh activity plans and understanding dependencies for each environment refresh.
• Ensuring all required tasks are included on the refresh activity plan and executed in the allotted time.
• Coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level specialists; potentially managing projects/processes.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Requires advanced knowledge of the job area, combining breadth and depth, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• 7+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree, or 5+ years of experience with an advanced degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience as an IT Release Manager or in a similar role within a software development environment.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.
• Experience with release management tools and technologies.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and leadership skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• May have practical knowledge of project management.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. We are committed to our employees, recognizing their contributions and providing a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart, putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves, and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity.