Technical Release Specialist - 1 Year Fixed-Term
This is a 1-Year Fixed Term Position
The Position
Our roster has an opening with your name on it
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 operate the day-to-day tasks for the release management team and support 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.
What We’re Looking For
Everyone on our team has a part to play
- Operate the release management process for our engineering groups, managing the deployment of change through environments all the way to production.
- Provide day-to-day support for release management inquiries and requests.
- 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 team’s 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.
Other requirements...
- 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.
- Experience with working with JIRA and Confluence
- Experience working with regulated products
- Understanding of Agile practices
ABOUT FANDUEL
FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.
In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.
FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).
Player Benefits
We treat our team right
From our many opportunities for professional development to our generous insurance and paid leave policies, we’re committed to making sure our employees get as much out of FanDuel as we ask them to give. Competitive compensation is just the beginning. As part of our team, you can expect:
- An exciting and fun environment committed to driving real growth
- Opportunities to build really cool products that fans love
- Career and professional development resources to help you refine your game plan for owning and driving your career and development
- Be well, save well and live well - with FanDuel Total Rewards your benefits are one highlight reel after another
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.
FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please email Benefits@fanduel.com.
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!