Manager, Release Train Engineer

About the role

Do you want to take the first step in making Filipinos’ lives better everyday? Here in GCash we want to stay at the forefront of the FinTech industry by creating innovative, meaningful, and convenient financial solutions for the nation! G ka ba? Join the G Nation today!

If you have a strong background in IT, computer science, or software engineering, and are analytical, technologically savvy, solutions and process-focused, then the Technology & Operations team may be for you!

Responsibilities

• RTE acts as primary Program Manager for Mobile App Releases (weekly meeting for App team to ensure app delivery timeline, handles gap assessment as needed, full end‑to‑end cycle hands‑on until App submission roll‑outs.)
• RTE applies cross‑tribe/inter‑tribe support to all system, platform, and/or network level changes from initiatives across the company’s businesses, services and/or products and helps synchronize all the production deployment activities.
• Performing end‑to‑end service management from demand value, performing work or accomplishing a common objective.
• Works with different teams to review, ensure, approve deployment requests across, aimed at ensuring the schedule of changes to assess transactional impact vs non‑impacting based on peak/off‑peak hours for all GCash services, products, systems so as not to cause any disruptions during business hours and to customers.
• RTE helps/gives guidance for SMs as needed for timeline concerns and provides recommendations for QA regression impact analysis so as not to hamper/delay Tech RFS schedules.
• RTE gives weekly onboarding activity for new SMs hired by VMO.
• Acts as release deployment support team for all platforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other relevant technical degree or equivalent to Project management.
• At least 2‑3 years of Release Management experience (Release Manager), managing proprietary products or platforms from a financial or technical industry.
• Service management or incident management experience.

Qualifications

• Certifications such as the SAFe Release Train Engineer certification (SAFe RTE) can be an advantage.

Skills

• Strong understanding of Project management.
• Agile methodologies and frameworks (Scrum, Waterfall, Agile).
• Experience working with Agile/Lean environments; ideally direct involvement in an Agile Release Train (ART) and Program Increment (PI).

Benefits

• Opportunity for career growth and development in the #1 FinTech company in the country.
• Working with a dynamic and highly collaborative team who want to change the game.
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