Technical Release Specialist

Found in: beBee jobs GB - 1 week ago


Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom FanDuel Full time

FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans every day. That's no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you're looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging, we believe we've created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.

The Position - Technical Release Specialist -

Across FanDuel we perform tens of thousands of production changes each year. We are looking for a Technical Release Specialist 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, minimize lead time for change, and maximize deployment frequency, while ensuring high quality and governance standards.

We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills and the ability to coordinate both to technical and non-technical teams. This role requires a strong ability to find creative solutions to challenging problems, excellent communication skills, ability to easily navigate ambiguity and define a path forward. You must know how to influence and motivate others to get the right things done.

Everyone on our team has a role to play; on a daily basis, you'll be involved in the following:

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.

Operate release management processes within your product vertical.

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 prioritize and resolve any test environments issues in stability/reliability.

Liaise with Change Management on teams adherence to change control processes.

Produce regulator and audit reports.

Train and educate engineers and stakeholders on release management.

Deliver accurate and timely insight reporting in-line with key release related metrics to stakeholders.

What We're Looking For:

Experience managing the delivery of application change in an agile environment.

Experience of 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.

Some understanding of distributed systems, architecture, cloud infrastructure, and ability to coordinate inter-dependencies.

Understanding of source control management e.g. GitHub.

Some knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools and configuration management e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible.

Nice to have

Jira configuration and automation

Experience working with regulated products

What You Can Expect

Interesting work - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons

A sense of achievement - Our teams own their own software and when that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created

Personal development - clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level, a supportive manager, loads of learning opportunities and even 10% of your time to dedicate to your learning.

Belonging - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together and have lots of fun doing it.

Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work

Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along with a number of other benefits.

The Interview Process

Recruiter Screening Call - 30 Minutes

Hiring Manager Interview - 45 Minutes

Peer Interview - 1 Hour

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

FanDuel 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.

The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don't have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you

Location

Our Scottish tech hub is based in central Edinburgh and is fitted with fabulous amenities including a gym, showers, bike parking, gaming pods, multiple breakout areas, meeting rooms, a roof terrace and much more. We operate a hybrid model for the majority of our roles, where team members come together at the hub as required.


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