Description
Global Insurance Company with significant operations in Ireland has an immediate contract requirement for Configuration Release Manager.
A global data management program is under way with my Client and this is a critical role. There are 1500 systems around the world and the goal of this project is to consolidate all the data and then eventually be able to run sophisticated analytics's off it.
This role is a 6 month daily rate contract paying 500 a day. The contract will likely extend.
The Job:
Managing the release process
Managing offshore teams
Responsible for all activities related to software products.
An advisory role for best practice
Skills/experience required:
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, engineering, science, or a related field (or an equivalent combination of education and work experience).
- Ten years insurance/financial services operations, customer, data and or technology experience
- Five years expert experience in change management/implementation and planning.
- Three years experience as a lead Release and Configuration manager with responsibility in complex integrated systems environment, multiple technologies utilising on/off shore teams providing expert knowledge in release and configuration process, standards and guidelines.
- Five Years experience with automated configuration management/code management systems such as Endeavor, PVCS, CVS, ClearCase or Visual SourceSafe
- Five years experience utilising IBM Infosphere information server suite (IIS), DB2, SOA, IBM Enterprise Service Bus, Web, web 2.0,J2EE/.NET, WebSphere Application Server, XML
- Strong technical background in information technology management
- Strong process knowledge of System Development Life Cycles
- Demonstrable experience with program languages and program scripts such as SQL, HTML, SQL Server, C++, Visual Basic, Microsoft Active Server Pages
- Strong knowledge of testing and defect tracking tools such as HP Quality Center; and excellent presentation and communication skills.
- Excellent track record of configuration and release management delivery
- Exposure to principles of data management, master data management, data quality and associated tools.
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