Technical Release Specialist

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States. 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 and Puerto Rico with approximately 17 million customers and 31 retail locations.

The company is based in New York with offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Jersey City, as well as in Canada, Scotland, 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).

 

THE ROSTER
At FanDuel, we give fans a new and innovative way to interact with their favorite games, sports and teams. We’re dedicated to building a winning team and we pride ourselves on being able to make every moment mean more, especially when it comes to your career. So, what does “winning” look like at FanDuel? It’s recognition for your hard-earned results, a culture that brings out your best work—and a roster full of talented coworkers. Make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right. That means we’ll never compromise when it comes to looking out for our teammates. From creatives professionals to cutting edge technology innovators, FanDuel offers a wide range of career opportunities, best in class benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. At FanDuel, our principle of “We Are One Team” runs through all our offices across the globe, and you can expect to be a part of an exciting company with many opportunities to grow and be successful.

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.

THE GAME PLAN
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.

 

THE STATS
What we're looking for in our next teammate

• 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