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Abbott

Release and Operations Manager

Abbott, Alameda, California, United States, 94501


Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and experience towards an opportunity in the medical field and improving the lives of people with diabetes?

Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service cloud platform to support the well-being of users in over 25 countries in a large-scale system responsible for processing billions of messages daily. The candidate should bring passion for software engineering and a desire for continuous learning as well as versatility, leadership qualities and a desire to shape the direction of the team. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS. #software

Responsibilities

The Release Manager will play an integral role in implementing and executing Abbott Diabetes Care Mobile release processes

The role supports ADC’s engineering helping drive the continuous integration/deployment process to production mobile application stores

The Release Manager will ensure that new software is released in a streamlined manner from development to production

As a Release Manager you'll use your strong technical ability to drive product releases across many different systems and teams, and ensure that ADC’s products are delivered with a repeatable and scalable process

Own, manage and improve our mobile application release process through innovation and automation

Focus on scale and efficiency

Support Operations team in production deployments across the globe

Defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to measure the success of each release

Presenting release performance against expectations and future best practices to the management team

Develop, manage, and communicate the mobile release calendar, coordinating timelines with all relevant teams.

Own end-to-end release process for iOS and Android apps, including builds, deployments, and approvals.

Facilitate release readiness reviews, status updates, and retrospectives with technical and non-technical teams

Monitor and ensure the successful deployment of mobile apps, overseeing any emergency or hotfix releases

Collaborate with Mobile DevOps to ensure configuration for Release Candidate(s) are accurate and sufficient

Troubleshoot and seolves technical issues in the release pipeline, working closely with Development, Mobile DevOps, and Test

Maintain a deep understanding of app store guidelines, requirements, and submission processes for Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Collaborate with Mobile SRE team to monitor post-release, coordinating with developers to quickly address issues. Clearly communicate release scope, status, risks, and mitigation strategies to stakeholders at all levels.

Foster a collaborative and transparent environment, encouraging open feedback and continuous improvement.

Support management of release calendar, release notes, documentation, and communication plans with internal and external stakeholders.

Lead meta data and artifact gathering and artifact review for the app stores

Required Qualifications

Minimum 4+ years of relevant experience managing multiple projects and/or release management programs

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant field

Software development experience, ideally in a global mobile application release management setting

In-depth understanding of mobile application app stores and their processes

Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level

Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team

Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills

Experience with open-source, software development and system engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in a regulated industry or medical device field.

Experience working in an agile environment.

Experience using external or internal tooling to support delivering mobile applications to various app stores.

The base pay for this position is $83,600.00 – $167,200.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com