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.
- 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
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
FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principal states, “We Are One Team!” We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, Veteran status, or another other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included. We want our team to include diverse individuals because diversity of thought, diversity of perspectives, and diversity of experiences leads to better performance. Having a diverse and inclusive workforce is a core value that we believe makes FanDuel stronger and more competitive as One Team!
The applicable salary range for this position is $102,000 - $140,800, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays. FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.
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