Alliant Credit Union
We set the standard for simple and rewarding digital banking.
Chicago, IL
Hybrid

Sr. Release Engineer

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What will your day look like?

You partner with Alliant product, project and development teams to ensure code, services and products seamlessly move from development through rollout and into production. Responsibilities include the ability to successfully lead complex multi-dimensional, high-visibility projects concurrently. Outstanding communication, adaptability, innovation, effective negotiation, problem solving and analytical aptitude are vital for success. Work requires advanced experience with Release Management, Agile Methodologies and/or Project Management.

This is a hands-on role that requires exceptional technical aptitude and superb partnership competencies to effectively work with members of the development, infrastructure security, and solution architecture teams (i.e., engineers and testers). Resources to do the job require reliance on advanced technical knowledge of Azure DevOps implementation and administration, microservices, architecture and process enhancement to support the company's development and testing efforts. General direction is received from the Manager, DevOps.

Responsibilities

Do you see yourself doing this?

  • Work across product, project and development teams to deliver software products and services to production.
  • Provide ongoing feedback to product, project and development teams to facilitate release planning preparedness (e.g., definition, scoping, etc.) to ensure each release has an actionable, prioritized backlog
  • Ensure that release stakeholders (e.g., Product Owners, Executives, Program Managers, etc.) have visibility to and understanding of the critical data for the release - milestones, dependencies, issues and risks, mitigation plans, metrics and communicates appropriately
  • Develop and drive the release management process and associated procedures
  • Establish and manage the annual calendar for digital development releases and environment management
  • Develop and drive release planning events, deployment plans, TRAP meetings, Release Retro etc.
  • Coordinate with technology and business stakeholders' releases of core systems (Symitar)
  • Coordinate annual Disaster Recovery exercise with infrastructure, ARE, Security and SQA teams
  • Keeps track of external dependencies and manage these dependencies throughout the annual release planning lifecycle
  • Create and maintain dashboard for non -production environments and supervise environments utilization and manage utilization minimizing disruption to technology teams
  • Collaborate with the DevOps Workgroup to maximize the efficiency of release delivery
  • Utilize metrics from previous releases to identify, test and implement proven revisions to the release management process
  • Drive the full development of the release management process (e.g., workflows, process documentation, etc.)
  • Research and incorporate DevOps best practice recommendations into Alliant's release management efforts

Qualifications

What makes you a great fit?

You'll be a great fit if in addition to the completion of a Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years' experience in an applicable field (e.g., software quality assurance, project management, release management, IT, operations, etc.), and you have:

  • Minimum 5 years' experience using ALM tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, ServiceNow ALM, etc.)
  • Project management experience working as the Release Manager on several projects concurrently required
  • Experience with Agile SAFe methodology and Kanban Framework
  • Experience with developing reports, metrics and assessments
  • Experience with Azure and cloud-native architecture
  • Technical experience on .Net, Java, microservices, mobile app dev tools and automation
  • Experience in coordinating with several stakeholders for enterprise disaster recovery and /or exercise involving Production maintenance
  • Azure DevOps project organization best practices; ability to generate required metrics
  • Understanding of Quality Assurance/Software Quality Best Practices
  • Demonstrated expertise and understanding of Agile software development methodologies

When you're happy, we're happy!

As a thank you for joining our team, you'll benefit from:

  • Competitive medical, dental, and free vision benefits
  • Competitive compensation plan
  • Contributions towards gym memberships
  • Generous PTO and banking holidays off

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What are Alliant Credit Union Perks + Benefits

Alliant Credit Union Benefits Overview

Alliant constantly works on improving its Employee Value Proposition. Our Human Capital Group team seeks ongoing employee feedback to continue to raise the bar on employee-focused benefits, making updates to the existing and adding new benefits every year.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Alliant offers 8 hours of paid volunteer time benefit for all employees.
Partners with nonprofits
To execute on our mission of Bridging the Digital Divide, Alliant has partnered with PCs for People, Connected Nation, DiGiTunity and the National Digital Inclusion Alliance.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Flexible work schedule
Alliant provides employees with a flexible work schedule that includes Flexible start and end times.
Remote work program
Since the pandemic began, all non-essential job functions have been remote 100%.
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Alliant provides our leaders and employees with unconscious bias, psychological safety and inclusive mindset training.
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Alliant supports employee resource groups. At this time, employees created INCLUDE, a women's resource group and ALL, an LGBTQ+ employee resource group, and EMPOWER black employees' resource group.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
At Alliant, we ensure that we have a diverse candidate slate for every role for which we hire and that our interview panels are also diverse.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Alliant employees can contribute up to $2,750 annually to their Health Care FSA and $5,000 to their dependent care FSA.
Disability insurance
Company provides Short Term Disability benefit payable for up to 13 weeks as well as Long Term Disability insurance that covers 66.67% of your monthly earnings up to $10,000 monthly maximum payout.
Dental insurance
Preventive services covered at 100%, Basic services covered at 80%; Major restorative services covered at 50%; Orthodontics covered at 50%
Vision insurance
Alliant offers free vision benefits to its employees and their dependents. The vision benefits plan covers 100% for annual eye exams after a $10 copay and $150 for glasses and contacts.
Health insurance
Alliant provides a choice of two medical plans. If you elect a medical plan, you are automatically enrolled in an HSA where Alliant contributes funds to help you pay for your out-of-pocket expenses.
Life insurance
Basic Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment is equal to 1 times an employee's annual salary. Employees can also purchase Voluntary Life insurance for themselves and their dependents.
Pet insurance
Our pet insurance policy covers up to %90 of out of pocket expenses.
Wellness programs
With Alliant's wellness reimbursement program, each employee receives up to $35 per month (non-cumulative) to spend on wellness activities and discounted wellness services through ThrivePass.
Mental health benefits
Alliant employees get free access to ComPsych, Calm and myStrength apps and services.
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Alliant offers a 401(k) plan administered through Fidelity where employees can contribute up to 60% of eligible compensation to the annual IRS limit.
401(K) matching
We match 100% of contributions up to the first 5% of an employee's annual gross pay. eligible salary. You will be 100% vested in these contributions right away.
Performance bonus
In the last years, Alliant’s bonus payouts were above 100%.
Charitable contribution matching
The Alliant Credit Union Foundation also matches employee donations made to non-religious, non-political 501(c)(3) organizations up to a total of $1,000 per person per calendar year.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 6 weeks of parental leave for the primary and secondary caretakers.
Family medical leave
Employees who have been with the company for 12 months are eligible for up to 26 weeks of family medical leave.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Our employees receive between 21 and 31 days per year of paid time off based on years of service. Alliant also offers a Flexible Time Off (unlimited time off) policy for Sr. Managers and above.
Paid volunteer time
Our employees receive 8 hours per year of paid volunteer time.
Paid holidays
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Employees can withhold up to $280 per month pre-tax for transit expenses and up to $280 per month pre-tax for parking expenses.
Company-sponsored outings
Alliant hosts between 4 and 6 major employee events in a year, including the Annual Volleyball Tournament, annual summer party and employee appreciation day celebration.
Free snacks and drinks
Currently, Alliant offers free snacks, free hot beverages and bottled water during the day, free lunch/food events on occasion and bi-weekly free fruit.
Some meals provided
Fitness stipend
Alliant reimburses its employees up to $35 per month for gym, health and fitness services and activities.
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Alliant offers employees professional development opportunities like Annual individual budget for training, onsite training courses and the ability to attend job-related conferences and seminars.
Tuition reimbursement
We offer up to $5,250 annually for continuing education through our tuition reimbursement benefit.
Lunch and learns
Alliant hosts lunch and learn and hour with the leader meetings once per quarter, giving our employees to hear from our executive and senior leadership teams.
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
We offer up to $5,250 annually for continuing education through our tuition reimbursement benefit.
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

Alliant constantly works on improving its Employee Value Proposition. Currently, Alliant offers free snacks, free hot beverages and bottled water, free lunch/food events on occasion, personal concierge service, on-site package/mailing service, massage therapy, discounted ticket sales, car wash, dry cleaning, convenience store, vehicle maintenance, banking and a gym at our headquarters location.

Our company works hard to create a work environment that allows our employees to maintain a healthy work/life balance. We encourage our employees to take advantage of flexible hours and offer an option to work remotely. Alliant also offers a very generous PTO package, which starts new employees with 21 PTO days annualized in their first year of employment.

The well-being of our employees and their families translates to productivity and commitment to their jobs. That is why we constantly work on launching new benefits that will help them find the best medical care at the lowest cost and get the help they need with convenience and without unnecessary stress.

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