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Your Role and Responsibilities The Release Program Manager position is an individual-contributor role within the Aspera Team with tremendous influence on the future of Aspera by being a key agent to ensure that all aspects of engineering is running smoothly. This person will be primarily responsible for driving projects and product releases and releasing our products on time, on scope, and on quality. This person is also expected to be able to be hands-on when needed.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
BS in Computer Science/Engineering or related technical discipline
Three to five years experience in a technical project, program, or release management role
Strong grasp of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile best practices
Strong technical background and process implementation skills
Strong communication skills (written, verbal, etc) and ability to motivate the team
Strong leadership skills
Good organization, presentation, and customer service skills
Proven track-record of balancing multiple projects at once and delivery projects successfully and on time (getting things done)
Ability to get hands on with technical problems, troubleshoot, and resolve issues
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Experience with security best practices and implementation
Experience with compliance (GDPR, ISO, Fedramp, SOC2, HIPAA)
Experience with IBM Release Processes
Experience with globalization, localization, accessibility
Experience with working with enterprise on-premise and cloud product lines
Prior software engineering and development experience
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