Technical Release Manager

Job Description

ABOUT FANDUEL GROUP

FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products all built with one goal in mind — to give fans new and innovative ways to interact with their favorite games, sports, teams, and leagues. That’s no easy task, which is why we’re so dedicated to building a winning team. And make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right. That means we’ll never compromise when it comes to looking out for our teammates. From our many opportunities for professional development to our generous insurance and paid leave policies, we’re committed to making sure our employees get as much out of FanDuel as we ask them to give.

Our brands include:

• FanDuel — A game-changing real-money fantasy sports app
• FanDuel Sportsbook — America’s #1 sports betting app
• FanDuel TV — "The Bettor Sports Network" bringing live sports and interactive content to the games fans care about most
• FanDuel Racing — A horse racing app built for the average sports fan
• FanDuel Casino & Betfair Casino — Fan-favorite online casino apps
• FOXBet — A world-class betting platform and affiliate of FanDuel Group
• PokerStars — The premier online poker product and affiliate of FanDuel Group

THE POSITION:
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

Join a place where innovation, creativity, customer/business focus, continuous improvement, automation and operational objectives are a way of life— and love what you do.

We’re a company that doesn’t stop until a job is finished, with a goal to consistently test our limits and exceed expectations. As a member of our technology team, you’ll have the opportunity to work on dynamic projects, in a collaborative environment where innovative thinking is encouraged. Successful candidates will have a passion for working with technology. They will have a positive, results driven, ‘can do’ attitude, and be able to demonstrate their ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. They will have a pragmatic approach, with an understanding of the need to balance lightweight but rigorous change processes with distributed accountability against the Business need for delivery at pace. We are looking for someone with excellent planning and communication skills. You will have great attention to detail and the ability to navigate complexity to define a path forward for both technical and non-technical teams. You know how to influence and motivate to get the right things done.

Across FanDuel we perform tens of thousands of production changes each year. We are looking for a Technical Release Manager for the Release Management team, operating globally across the FanDuel estate. Your primary role will be to run the release management process for one of our large engineering groups, ensuring we meet our regulatory requirements, minimise lead time for change and maximise deployment frequency, while ensuring high quality and governance standards.

THE GAME PLAN:
Everyone on our team has a part to play

• Operate the release management process for one of our engineering groups, managing the deployment of change through environments all the way to production.
• Work with regulatory testing bodies to support their validation of new release candidates.
• Define, operate, and embed release management processes within your product vertical. Continually improve these, driving efficiency.
• Plan, manage and coordinate the implementation of changes across multiple production environments, whilst managing stakeholder expectations.
• Coordinate scope of change, release details, and documentation generation.
• Manage approval status across compliance, regulatory, change management, and engineering.
• Ensure engineering teams prioritise and resolve any test environments issues in stability/reliability.
• Liaise with Change Management on team’s adherence to change control processes.
• Produce regulator and audit reports.
• Train and educate engineers and stakeholders on release management.
• Act as a point of engagement for stakeholders across the business who need to liaise with Technology where release management capabilities are concerned and ensure release management policies are understood.
• Define key operational KPIs and formulate actions plans on an ongoing basis across technology and business areas to drive excellence with an attention to detail and methodological approach.
• Deliver accurate and timely insight reporting in-line with key release related metrics to stakeholders.

Competencies

• 3+ years’ experience managing the delivery of application change in an agile environment.
• Experience of developing release management processes and strategies. Planning, scheduling, implementing releases in a demanding, fast-paced environment requiring a high degree of deadline-driven productivity
• Experience owning cross functional initiatives, defining and executing against program requirements.
• Strong program management and analytical skills, be comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and have the ability to effectively influence and communicate with global stakeholders.
• Proven ability to think and move quickly, managing difficult trade-offs to meet deadlines.
• Good understanding of distributed systems, architecture, cloud infrastructure, and ability to coordinate inter-dependencies.
• Experience working with an AWS technical stack or similar.
• Understanding of source control management e.g., GitHub.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Familiarity with configuration management e.g., Chef, Puppet, Ansible.

THE STATS:
What we're looking for in our next teammate

• Jira configuration and automation.
• Experience working with regulated products.
• Must pass all relevant background security checks, including those to be licensed as required by US jurisdictions.
• Some On-Call work required.

THE CONTRACT:
We treat our team right

Competitive compensation is just the beginning. As part of our team, you can expect:

• An exciting and fun environment committed to driving real growth
• Opportunities to build really cool products that fans love
• Mentorship and professional development resources to help you refine your game
• Flexible vacation allowance to let you refuel
• Hall of Fame benefit programs and platforms

FanDuel Group is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.

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