Mandatory Qualifications: 1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Technology from an accredited university (CalSTRS may request a copy of degree) or at least ten (10) years of code deployment and environment support in multi-staged environments that include user acceptance, performance, pre-production, and disaster recovery environments. 2. At least thirty-six (36) consecutive months of hands-on release management and/or environment support experience in large enterprise system environments and/or Government Pension environments like CalSTRS demonstrating the following: a. Facilitated change management relationships between the Change and Release management team and technical production operations and development teams. b. Operated at an advisory level, consistently interacting with IT and line-of-business senior management to improve Release management processes. 3. At least 3 years of experience in the last ten (10) years demonstrating working across various technical platforms—Applications Middleware, and Infrastructure. 4. At least 3 years of hands-on experience using Microsoft Team Foundation Server to manage releases. 5. Experience developing and executing rollback and recovery mechanisms for deployments in one or more large projects during the last 3 years. Desirable Qualifications: 1. Knowledge of business functions performed by pension organizations similar to CalSTRS, including but not limited to: Pension Administration Financial/Accounting Public Retirement Benefits Information Technology 2. Familiarity with the Sagitec solution known as Neospin and previous experience working on a Neospin implementation. 3. Experience with pension industry commercial off the shelf (COTS) products required for transformation project success, with preference for knowledge with the Neospin framework. 4. Experience coordinating with remote data centers and disaster recovery sites. 5. Experience planning and coordinating performance testing activities. 6. Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio. 7. Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle. 8. Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion. 9. Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills. 10. Ability to work collaboratively with technical staff and other project managers. 11. Ability to develop detailed technical project schedules. 12. Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
