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Job title

Lead SCM Engineer

Company The Walt Disney Company - ESPN
Wage between $0.00 - $0.00 Annually
Location United States, Connecticut, Bristol
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 8/5/2008
Description
Technology
Lead SCM Engineer
Job ID: 170347
Job Responsibilities
Serve as subject matter expert to manage SCM Application suite of products by architecting a SCM tool-suite to support ongoing software deployment, maintenance and development efforts.

Designs, Develops, implements and supports backup and recovery strategies for SCM systems.

Develop and maintain build and release strategy and SCM Plans.

Designs, writes, maintains and uses installation scripts or programs to promote software from development environments through test environments and into production environments. Ensuring that each environment is correct and consistent.


Responsible for all aspects of the design, development and implementation of automated build/release systems including vendor evaluation. Evaluates the results of any tool test undertaken by the Team.

Defines tool requirements and in consultation with the SCM team sets the criteria for vendor and tool selection. Stays current on upcoming new versions current tools.

May participate/recommends strategic operational goals for the SCM organization. Provide day-to-day operational support for tools, repositories and utilities currently deployed. Responsible for the upgrade or next available version of deployed tools and evaluation of new tools to fit within SCM strategic goals.

Use procedures and processes to provide organizational support to control source code through a defined branching, labeling and versioning scheme. Identifies, develops, and implements enhancements to branching strategies, versioning scheme and labeling definition to achieve efficiencies and improvements.

Designs and implements SCM Strategies to support Change Management processes, addressing end-to-end process controls. Evaluates vendor tools to support and strategies.

Operates within the clearly defined structure of established SCM standards, practices and protocols. Contributes to the development of these standards. Responsible for the implementation of process improvements to SCM standards, practices and protocols.

Administer, control, and audit regular builds and releases throughout the SDLC. Sets archive goal for SCM and approves recommendation and development plans to SCM standards.

Conducts formal/informal training sessions and presentations for SCM Team members and developers in tool use and SCM processes.

Stays current in the latest SCM and process improvement technologies.

Provides technical team leadership for the SCM Engineering team and mentors junior level SCM Engineers



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Experience/Skills
Required Qualifications
College degree or equivalent work experience required. Candidate must have a minimum of 7 - 15 years experience in a structured SCM environment with knowledge of development software builds and releases. Preferably a minimum of 3 - 7 years administration of PVCS, Visual Studio Team System (TFS), subversion or other major SCM system.

Has strong knowledge of trends, technology advances, new products, and best practices in application SCM processes and standards

Thorough understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle or Application Life Cycle Management

Knowledge and experience with programming language(s), relational databases, and new technologies; i.e. .NET, J2EE

Solid knowledge of SCM methodologies/tool
Specific requirements that will be very beneficial in managing some of the more complex technologies: Solid Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and how it relates to code builds, experience and in-depth understanding of J2EE Project Structures and Java dependencies, ANT Scripting, Unix/Shell Scripting, Subversion: configuration and repository management, versioning strategies as it applies to Subversion; large scale branching and tagging strategies, experience with Continuous Integration is a PLUS, and Experience with Maven is a PLUS.

Other desired skills:
SCM
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