External Product Implementation Specialist 5 (contract)

Job Posting

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This posting is for a contract assignment and is not a full-time employment offer with Boeing. Candidates selected for roles will be employed as contract workers through a Boeing approved 3rd party for the duration of the specified project.

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Regular and predictable attendance is required - Work statement is a non-managerial role, non-leadership role.

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You are a Change and Release Management Specialist able to manage, track, and approve ITS environment changes and software releases to production system environments. It is important that you have experience in understanding and performing our Change Management policies and Release Management procedures. You have experience in being able to identify deficiencies in the system and process and have influence in fixing and analyzing. As a Change and Release Management Specialist you may need to create reports and metrics to ensure that approved changes and releases are completed within the system so that during audits all information is correct. You also have strong interpersonal skills to work with subject matter experts from IT organizations and Development as well as peers on the team to ensure alignment to the Change Management and Release policies.

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You will also share responsibility as an Incident manager, executing the process to restore normal service operation as quickly as necessary to minimize the impact to business operations, ensuring the successful execution of the Incident management process including investigation and resolution of all production and customer impactful incidents, managing incident workflow and all customer communication from incident escalation through resolution, including postmortem review.

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Position Responsibilities

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• Execute the change management process using ITIL best practices and industry standards for change
• Manage the daily Change Management and Release Management functions including maintaining and documenting change management procedures, technical and business impact assessment
• Lead Change Review meetings with local team members, stakeholders and management
• Identify and manage scheduling conflicts working with teams to negotiate implementation dates and schedules across the organization
• Ensure analysis is conducted to assess potential impacts of proposed changes
• Coordinates the resolution of major issues with internal and external teams to drive incidents to resolution
• Communicates incident status, resolution and business impact to internal and external stakeholders
• Facilitates the completion of the postmortem statement for all high severity, critically impactful incidents
• Ability to foster internal relationships in order to organize incident resolution efforts as quickly and smoothly as possible. Exceptional written and Interpersonal skills: Communicate effectively and concisely with applications teams, stakeholders and senior leadership
• Manage risks and resolves issues that impact release scope, schedule, cost and quality
• Works with Configuration Management, Deployment team, Test and Quality teams to successfully deliver high-quality software
• Performance Goal and Standards Setting: Develop and communicate to realistic timelines via plans that consider potential obstacles immediate and long-term consequences
• Understand datacenter business objectives: Critically review multiple plans and adjust as needed. Proactively communicate and address necessary trade-offs
• Process and Technology: Demonstrate a solid understanding of IT environment including operational processes and industry best practices
• Effectively changes plans, goals, actions or priorities to respond to changing situations.
• Team Player: Ability to both contribute strategically to the change and release team and support strategic decisions
• Develop, manage, and contribute to maturing our ITSM processes, including the ServiceNow platform

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Change & Release Management Contractor Role

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• Onboard training
• eGSEP changes due to sale, need to have Digital Services products, workflows and approval groups separated
• request changes and test/validate
• assist in current data eGSEP audit of Digital Services Products, business services, portfolios
• update minimum Change & Release Management documents in Knowledge Homepage to reflect Boeing Digital Services
• eGSEP clone: working with Service Now team to test/validate
• DPR (release module) upgrade * not sure all this entails as will need to give guidance on the use of and determine gaps than once requirements understood, test/validate
• Assist products through Change & Release Management
• monitor the Change Dashboard for incoming CHG ticket requests (follow up with product team if ticket not clear & help get stakeholder approval)
• monitor Release tickets (follow up with product team if ticket not clear & help get stakeholder approval)
• support the move to GSEP

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Once separation in eGSEP –

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• back up to run Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) includes sending out TAC report
• back up to run Production Approval Board (PAB) includes sending out PAB report

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Required Qualifications

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• 2+ Years’ experience in a 24x7x365 production environment or related experience
• 2+ Years’ experience in change control process or Release Management process
• ITIL Foundations Certification or equivalent experience
• Microsoft Visio, Xcel and Word experience is a must
• Previous ServiceNow experience a plus
• Experience in software life cycle is a plus - Applicable and appropriate educational/certification credentials from an accredited institution and/or equivalent experience is required.

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Pay Rate Range

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Min Pay Rate Max Pay Rate Currency Unit 75 80 USD hourly

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Benefits Information

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• Optional Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K

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Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.