Lead Consultant - US
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Job Description

Infosys is seeking to hire Release Manager in San Francisco, CA

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We navigate our clients' digital transformations in 45 countries across the world. We do it by enabling enterprises with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower businesses 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.

Wanted: Global navigators, to guide the world's largest enterprises' digital transformations

As a Lead Consultant, you will be an expert contributing to different phases of the consulting lifecycle. You will be intensely involved in business process consulting; you will define the problem, propose and create the solution. You will also play an important role in the development, configuration and deployment of the overall solution. You will guide teams on project processes, deliverables and contribute to the proposal development, client training and internal capability building and help detail the project scope. You will have the opportunity to shape value-adding consulting solutions that enable our clients to meet the changing needs of the global landscape.

Location for this position is SFO, CA. This position may require travel and/or relocation.

U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

Qualifications

Basic

* Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
* At least 7 years of experience with information Technology.

Preferred

* The Release Manager must be able to multitask, analyze complex issues, assess risk, bring groups to consensus, be decisive, and act quickly-- always driven to achieve a successful, on-time implementation of a quality release.
* Establish a release inventory that includes projects, maintenance requests, and production defects in the code and infrastructure releases.
* Facilitate daily release standups for communication between project managers, quality assurance, development, configuration management, and operations.
* Consult with stakeholders and partners, keep them informed and report on release milestone dates, as well as various statuses of defects and enhancements in each release.
* Set and manage client expectations by escalating issues, changes and exceptions, when appropriate.
* Drive task completion to meet release milestones in order to minimize risk.
* Identify release risks, manage the tasks necessary to mitigate each risk and facilitate issue resolution.
* Maintain accurate records and artifacts for the entire release from release kickoff through release deployment, including a final root cause analysis and lessons learned for any issues identified during the release cycle.
* Communicate effectively with business and technical teams, across all levels of management
* Work directly with senior management as the high-level expert on release content and issues.
* Lead and act with appropriate sense of urgency
* Multitask in a fast-paced environment.
* Analytical and Communication skills
* project and talent management
* Experience with project management
* Experience and desire to work in a management consulting environment that requires regular travel

The job entails an extensive amount of travel. The job also entails sitting as well as working at a computer for extended periods of time. Should be able to communicate by telephone, email or face to face.

About Us

Infosys is a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions. We enable clients, in more than 30 countries, to stay a step ahead of emerging business trends and outperform the competition. We help them transform and thrive in a changing world by co-creating breakthrough solutions that combine strategic insights and execution excellence.

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