Job Description

About Electrum

Electrum is an exciting B2B tech company. We partner with some of South Africaxe2x80x99s biggest household names, enabling them to open up their customersxe2x80x99 access to payments and digital goods and services. We love that the projects we work on touch the lives of millions of South Africans every day, making a real difference.

Job Summary

• The Engineering Release Manager is responsible for coordinating deliveries through the software development process within the Engineering group, from planning to go-live, ensuring the delivery of quality releases to stakeholders.
• It is a multi-disciplined role that performs the roles of a Project Manager, Program Manager and Scrum master, with a primary focus on the creation, planning and execution of deliverables within the Engineering organisation.
• They own and drive the delivery processes including the Engineering SDLC processes, guidelines and templates that relate to deliveries.

Release Planning and Coordination

• Prioritising and capacity planning across Engineering, collaborating with Product Management to define the delivery roadmap for Engineering.
• Making the Engineering group more predictable.
• Coordinating tasks between the Engineering teams.

Release Process Management and Execution

• Planning the releases of projects and managing the release lifecycle.
• Managing Engineering project execution.
• Working with team leads to ensure projects are delivered on time.
• Managing both planned and unplanned changes, risks and issues to ensure rapid delivery and greater predictability.

Risk Assessment and Mitigation

• Identifying and managing risk, scope and quality.
• Ensuring all compliance artefacts have been produced.

Communication and Reporting

• Improving communication to stakeholders outside of Engineering.
• Communicating release timelines and requirements to stakeholders.
• Keeping both Engineering and Electrum stakeholders informed on the progress of releases.
• Budget analysis of Engineering releases.

Release Documentation

• Maintaining project related documentation related to the build and release of software.

Change Control Management

• Ensuring change requests follow a change control process and that they are managed according to the SDLC processes.

Process Improvement

• Improving the project management and release practices within the Engineering organisation.
• Gathering feedback on existing processes and is actively involved in ensuring improved delivery guidelines, templates and processes.
• Setting up procedural guidelines to establish successful delivery processes.
• Evaluating feedback from retrospectives and instituting changes as necessary to manage improvements.
• Involved with and contributing towards the Electrum PMO community.

Requirements

• A university degree.
• 5 xe2x80x93 8 years experience in a project management role specifically in delivering software projects using Agile methodologies.
• 2 xe2x80x93 3 years experience working in a software development team:

• in a role requiring communication in cross-functional teams;
• in an analytical role closely involved in the delivery of technical projects;
• creating release documentation and reporting
• Experience with release management tools and platforms.

Beneficial Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Previous experience working in the Fintech industry.
• Certified in Agile / Scrum methodologies.

Benefits

We have created an high-performance culture where you can expect:

• Career growth - Delivering world-class financial services software products in a fast-paced company is not easy, and it takes an insane amount of effort. But in return for your effort you'll get hands-on experience working on products that are used by millions of people, and a high quality work experience that will accelerate your career faster than anywhere else.
• Transparency - We openly discuss strategy, finances, salaries and other major decisions.
• Autonomy - We know you'll be able to make good decisions if you have good information, and we trust you.
• Shared Vision - You'll be able to shape a vision you can believe in - on how to build the future of financial services.
• Work-life balance - You know when your brain has switched off for the day and you need to go for a hike or coffee shop with a view, but you also know when your team needs help to bring that strategic deliverable home. At Electrum you will be expected to know when you deserve that time out, and when you need to knuckle down and get the work done.

These are few practical ways we practise the culture we are so proud of:

• Flexible work hours
• Onsite gym and shower facilities
• Daily cooked lunches and a stocked kitchen for the afternoon nibbles
• Team socialising like hikes, getaways, and dinners
• A generous leave policy, starting at 20 days per year
• A recreational area with foosball and table tennis
• Fatsaks scattered around the office for deep thinking or meditation

If this sounds like a role and place where you can spread your wings, please apply now.

We have created a safe, transparent environment where:

• We know mistakes happen, and thatxe2x80x99s okay. We even have a three-step approach to dealing with them:
• Tell everyone about it
• Fix the mistake
• Tell everyone about the solution

• You are responsible for your actions xe2x80x93 both the successes and the failures
• We talk openly about salaries and bonuses. At Electrum, we believe itxe2x80x99s evident why some people earn more and others a bit less. Itxe2x80x99s like being on a sports team where salaries are widely known.

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