Release Manager Allvida & Symbria

• A market-conform salary that aligns with your knowledge and experience.

• 28 vacation days.

• A lot of freedom in scheduling your work week.

• The choice between a mobility budget or a lease car.

• A good work-from-home arrangement including associated facilities.

• A substantively challenging position in which you receive a lot of responsibility and contribute directly to the reliability of our IT solutions.

• Room to improve processes, take initiative, and further shape your own role.

• An informal working environment with short lines and engaged colleagues.

Bringing a new release to production might sound straightforward. But behind a successful release lies a world of planning, technical dependencies, coordination, and risk management. Especially when you work for multiple clients and different teams.

That is where you come in.

As a Release Manager at Truston, you are responsible for directing the release process of our solutions Allvida and Symbria. You ensure that new software, changes, and configurations are rolled out to our clients at the right time and in a controlled manner. You combine technical knowledge with organizational insight and know how to bring different teams and stakeholders together.

A role for someone who loves to maintain an overview, takes responsibility, and ensures that agreements are actually met.

You will join the Operations team and take on an important role in further professionalizing and executing our Change & Release Management. You are the connecting link between Operations, development, and our clients. In doing so, you direct the entire release process, from planning and preparation to the actual rollout and evaluation. Your activities include:

• You manage the release calendar for Allvida and Symbria and coordinate the planning with our clients.

• You coordinate the releases per client and maintain an overview of the various teams, environments, dependencies, and deadlines.

• You lead internal and external Change & Release meetings and ensure that agreements, decisions, and actions are clear.

• Together with the involved teams, you determine which changes become part of a release and monitor whether these are ready on time.

• You assess whether changes are sufficiently prepared to go to production. Think of documentation, test results, and trial installations.

• You understand technical changes in software, cloud infrastructure, and configurations and know how to signal possible risks and dependencies in a timely manner.

• You advise involved stakeholders on the feasibility and risks of a release and help prepare well-founded go/no-go decisions.

• You ensure that all relevant information, decisions, and results are properly recorded and traceable afterwards.

• Together with the involved teams, you draw up clear playbooks for the production rollout.

• You coordinate the various activities during a release and monitor progress, task distribution, and mutual coordination.

• You ensure that the right people are involved at the right time and that the rollout proceeds according to plan.

• You evaluate releases and translate points for improvement into concrete actions for future releases.

• You work closely with Operations, development, Team Leads, Product Owners, and Delivery Leads.

• You maintain contact with the change and release managers of our clients and keep them informed of planning, progress, and any risks.

• You work together with colleagues in the Netherlands and Portugal and ensure good coordination between the different teams.

• You actively think along about how we can further improve and professionalize our release processes.

You are someone who understands technical content but simultaneously sees the bigger picture. You know how important good preparation is and are not easily surprised by dependencies or unexpected changes. You take initiative, communicate clearly, and know how to get people on board without being a formal manager. Additionally, you bring the following:

Do you see yourself as the person who maintains an overview, brings technical teams together, and ensures that releases run smoothly and in a controlled manner?

Then we would love to meet you!

We would love to tell you more about Truston, Allvida, Symbria, and the challenges that await you.

If this vacancy suits you, it offers a fantastic workplace, with satisfied employees and clients (NPS > 60). We are growing at a high pace and have ambitious plans for further expansion. We are only at the beginning of this exciting adventure. Why wouldn't you want to be a part of it?

Are you curious and would like to receive more information, please contact our recruiter Thijs Hooghiemstra via thijs.hooghiemstra@igh.com. You can also apply directly via the application button. We hope to meet you soon!  

We want our employees to be a reflection of the diversity in society. We work together with a remarkable mix of talents, personalities, and cultures. IG&H is proud to be an employer that offers equal opportunities. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment, regardless of nationality, race, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, disability, or age. We care about individuality, but most importantly, we are proud of our collective achievements and a great workplace.

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