Hybrid opportunity in Miami Lakes, FL.
JOB SUMMARY: The Application Release Manager is responsible for coordinating the deployment of releases of business applications into production environments. This role ensures that changes are planned, tested, and deployed in a controlled manner, maintaining the integrity and stability of production systems.
This position acts as a central point of coordination across application teams, infrastructure, QA, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure successful release execution and alignment to business priorities.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Release Planning & Governance:
- Defines and maintains the Release Management policy, process, and SOPs
- Develops and manages the enterprise release calendar
- Release Coordination:
- Serves as the lead coordinator for Application Support and Infrastructure production releases of existing systems
- Coordinates release activities across Application teams, Infrastructure teams, Business stakeholders, Vendors and third parties
- Ensures:
- Testing is completed (QA/UAT validation)
- Deployment plans are documented and approved
- Backout/rollback plans are defined and viable
- Risk & Dependency Management:
- Identifies and manages:
- Cross-system dependencies
- Release conflicts and collisions
- Resource constraints
- Evaluates and escalates risks impacting release success
- Ensures mitigation strategies are in place
- Stakeholder Engagement & Communication:
- Communicates release plans, risks, and status to:
- IT leadership
- Business stakeholders
- Operations teams
- Facilitate release readiness meetings and go/no-go decisions
- Provides clear pre-release, during-release, and post-release communication
- Post-Release Validation & Continuous Improvement:
- Ensures post-deployment validation is completed
- Coordinates and drives hyper care and issue resolution following release
- Identifies improvement opportunities and drives process maturity
- Tooling & Automation:
- Manages and optimizes use of:
- Integrated Change Management workflows
- Release dashboards and reporting
- Drives adoption of:
- Standardized release tracking
- Automation where applicable (CI/CD alignment over time)
- Adheres to and complies with applicable, federal and state laws, regulations and guidance, including those related to anti-money laundering (i.e. Bank Secrecy Act, US PATRIOT Act, etc.).
- Adheres to Bank policies and procedures and completes required training.
- Identifies and reports suspicious activity.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
Experience
- 7+ years in Release Management.
- Strong experience with ITIL framework (Release & Change Management).
- Experience in environments with CAB governance and multi-application / multi-vendor ecosystems.
- Experience with QA/UAT coordination, deployment planning and rollback strategies.
Licenses and Certifications
- ITIL Foundations Certification a plus.
- Project Management Certificate a plus.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong understanding of Release lifecycle and Change Management integration.
- Strong analytical, interpersonal, collaboration, presentation, influence, and problem-solving skills is a must.
- Strong 'self-starter' with ability to manage competing priorities.
- Effectively lead or collaborate with cross-functional resources to manage and resolve interdependencies.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; proven track-record of successfully briefing team members at all levels of an organization.
- Must have strong organizational skills with a proven ability to work autonomously, multi-task and manage multiple projects.
Additional Information
- Candidates residing in locations within BankUnited's footprint may be given preference.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years in Release Management
- Strong experience with ITIL framework (Release & Change Management)
- Experience in environments with CAB governance and multi-application / multi-vendor ecosystems
- Experience with QA/UAT coordination, deployment planning and rollback strategies
- Strong analytical, interpersonal, collaboration, presentation, influence, and problem-solving skills
- Strong organizational skills; ability to work autonomously, multi-task and manage multiple projects
- ITIL Foundations Certification
- Project Management Certificate
BankUnited Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision options plus disability and life insurance. Wellness programming is described as robust, including incentives, screenings, and on-site fitness facilities at the corporate center.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) plan with a company match and relatively quick eligibility after one month. Auto-enrollment and auto-increase features are described, which can help employees build savings consistently.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as broad, including a sizable PTO range by level and paid holidays. Additional time-off programs such as volunteer time and flexible/hybrid/remote arrangements are also described for eligible positions.
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What We Do
BankUnited, Inc., with total consolidated assets of $35.2 billion at March 31, 2021, is a bank holding company with one wholly owned subsidiary, BankUnited. BankUnited, a national banking association headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida, provides a full range of banking services to individual and corporate customers through banking centers in Florida and New York. The Bank also provides certain commercial lending and deposit products on a national platform. Here at BankUnited, we endeavor to provide, through experienced lending and relationship banking teams, personalized customer service and offer a full range of traditional banking products and services to both commercial and retail customers.
