Role – Release Manager
Technology –PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)
Location – Toulouse
Compensation – Competitive (including bonus)
The opportunity
Are you someone who wants to collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry? Lead release planning and coordination for the setup of a modern enterprise PLM platform to support the next gen program? If you are interested in being part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded and diversity is respected, this is the place to be. We are looking to aggressively ramp up our Engineering Services team in Europe for exciting opportunities in PLM domain.
Why should you join Infosys Engineering Services practice?
At Infosys, we pioneered and perfected the global delivery model, introducing to our customers the ability to move technology work to different locations where talent is readily available, and quality is both impeccable and cost competitive. Over the years we have applied this model to a full range of services - both technical and business. Our IT services such as application integration, testing, maintenance, and infrastructure management ensure your operations are fully optimized. Our business process outsourcing and management services, such as customer service delivery, human resource outsourcing and procurement handling, drive down process costs while greatly enhancing their efficiencies. Most importantly, as part of our strategic sourcing approach, these services free up resources that can then be deployed to drive transformation and innovation initiatives
Job Description
- Defining the Integrated Roadmap (dependencies) for a given initiative and for a given Product and/or Service
- Coordination / Follow-up / Priorities management (Business perspective)
- Facilitate Technical integration of products and/or services with related coordination / follow-up (IM Perspective)
- Facilitate Functional Integration Tests across the impacted products and/or services
- Collaborate with Large Solutions, EPICs and project teams.
- Monitor release execution and escalate issues as needed.
- Set up and lead weekly release coordination meetings with stakeholders.
- Prepare and distribute release status reports.
- Organize Release Milestone ceremonies.
- Ensure clear documentation of release scope, timelines, and outcomes.
- Support validation and testing activities during each release phase.
- Ensure readiness of environments, data, and teams for each release cycle.
- Identify potential risks and issues related to releases and migration activities.
- Maintain a RIA (Risk, Issue, Actions) and drive resolution of critical items.
- Facilitate impact assessments and contingency planning.
- Understand the PLM functional landscape of the client and formulate the future roadmap based on the enterprise vision.
- Being a part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued.
Requirements
- Engineering graduate with years of experience in PLM Techno Functional domain, with 8+ years of Deployment/Release activities in Airbus.
- Should have led/participated in the complex release/deployment (involving 10+ products) activities for 3+ years.
- Very good project management skills with knowledge on utilization of project management tools like MS project/ Zoho.
- Very good understanding of A350 PLM Backbone.
- Global awareness on Airbus PLM landscape (including CATIA, ECH, APS, PS SSI, DMU/TreND)
- Strong background of the all the deployment enablers like Myaccess / VersionOne/ Ctrl-M / DaaS / AVDs etc
- Strong background on client deployment specificities including Extended Enterprise
- Expertise in 3D Experience PLM platform will be a plus.
- Strong knowledge on upstream and downstream dependencies (Manufacturing, customer services, change process,…)
- Awareness of Agile/SAFe methodologies
- Awareness of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Leading proposals and contributing to RFPs.
- Ability to manage and lead a team of 15 people.
Responsibilities
- Project Planning & Initiation
- Stakeholder & Communication Management
- Risk, Issue & Change Management
- Financial & Resource Management
- Quality & Compliance Assurance
- Proposal preparation
- Client management
- Work closely with the Large Solution, EPICs, Products/ARTs to understand the scope, timelines, and other dependencies to prepare the Release roadmap.
- Communicate & secure the plan, scope, schedule, commitments with key stakeholders.
- Secure dependencies between ARTs impacting the global plan, and incorporate the limitations, dependencies capturing the critical path and risk mitigation to secure it.
- Prepare the required deliveries for various release milestones/quality gates and conduct milestone review meetings to ensure Project progress with sufficient quality/maturity
- Work with change management Team to secure the move into production timelines.
- Collaborate with ARTs/ Projects to identify the risk and issues.
- Ensure that ARTs/ Projects are strictly adhering to the agreed delivery timelines.
- Secure the deployment slot with projects and communicate it with key stakeholders.
- Ensure the availability of test platforms for the test campaigns.
- Escalate the open points that can put the release at risk.
- Prepare detailed Production deployment plan.
- Coordinate production deployment activities and keep the stakeholders regularly informed on the progress.
Personal
- High analytical skills
- A high degree of initiative and flexibility
- High customer orientation
- High quality awareness
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English and French)
Overview
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation.
With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.
All aspects of hiring process and employment at Infosys are based on merit, competence and performance. We are committed to embracing diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Infosys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
