Release Lead - Operational & Enterprise Risk, Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo

Location:
United States, Charlotte

Category:
IT - Administration

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

84000.00 - 149400.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Release Leader, who will be responsible for guiding team(s) of Delivery / Release Leads, Scrum Masters, project managers and other support roles to navigate and coordinate all cross-product production releases, while also partnering with product development teams as they adopt, grow, and sustain more efficient ways of working leveraging agile and product practices. The Release Lead has three main responsibilities; (1) ensures delivery is orchestrated across teams and dependent products (2) continuous improvement across the Product Line and Product and (3) technical release activities related to SDLC, ECM and CI/CD.

Job Responsibility:

Provide thought leadership to maintain customer centricity and facilitates activities that foster continuous improvement
Strategically engage with all levels of professionals, program or product managers and stakeholders to enhance transparency, resolve issues, and foster team empowerment
serves as an advisor to leadership and a peer mentor on technical change management policies
Plan and facilitate cross-product / internal product quarterly planning sessions to promote understanding of prioritized needs, estimate which deliverables must be achieved in the same cycle and potential impacts to live code across the technology eco-system
Support the product line management team and product team in connecting the activities needed to bring the working software into production, by holding collaborative and inclusive conversations and release mapping
Ensure transparency and clarity across the product on the synchronization of release events, including but not limited to the iterative development of feature roadmap(s), to help the team recognize potential dependencies and conflicts
Partners with product manager and technology groups to mitigate risk by holding a view of the full technology eco-system (e.g., infrastructure and 3rd party dependencies, financial implications of delays, hazards of implementations occurring ‘off-schedule’, impacts of production errors, etc.,)
Communicate frequently with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive relentless improvement
Assists all delivery / release roles (where applicable) in understanding and adhering to all Enterprise requirements required for software implementation
Assists in ensuring compliance, SDLC and ECM/change management efforts are understood and adopted across the Product

Requirements:

4+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
4+ years of Technical Project Management experience
4+ years of Requirement traceability, Release planning, and management experience in Agile SDLC environment
Excellent Communication skills with multiple levels of leadership
Stakeholder Relationship Management

Nice to have:

Tool experience in Jira, Confluence and Service Now
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) experience

What we offer:

Health benefits
401(k) Plan
Paid time off
Disability benefits
Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
Parental leave
Critical caregiving leave
Discounts and savings
Commuter benefits
Tuition reimbursement
Scholarships for dependent children
Adoption reimbursement

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 27, 2025

Expiration:
May 08, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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