Asst Vice President - Release Management

You should apply if you have:

• At least 5 years experience in Release Management owning all types of change through to implementation.
• Experience working in fast paced agile environments.
• Detailed, logical and diligent approach to delivery of releases
• Confident, collaborative and persuasive approach with stakeholders ensuring stakeholders are compliant to the Release and governance process.
• Experience contributing to, and achieving, continuous improvement goals
• Take personal accountability, collaborate with colleagues, make effective decisions and help others operate at their best.
• Operate in a fair, trustworthy, and genuine way with my colleagues and customers

Accountabilities Responsibilities:

• To be aligned with Retail Savings Technology to shape and manage the pipeline of technology changes, i.e. releases, within that portfolio.
• Coordinate and deliver regular, high quality releases into Production following the Agile development process, ensuring releases comply our governance and best practices.
• To engage proactively with portfolios from a release management perspective at all stages of their lifecycle.
• To be fully engaged with the portfolio leads, product owners, project managers, development teams and business and their representatives in order to encourage earlier and continuous release planning.
• To organise and co-ordinate the implementation of releases including overseeing a virtual team across multiple departments.
• Run and own release retrospectives to drive continuous improvement to increase efficiency and effectiveness of release delivery as MG grows
• Where necessary perform detailed implementation planning taking into account: risks; internal and external dependencies; resources; adherence to controls.
• Be available to work out of office hours as required owning implementation plans.
• Administration / Development of the logistic suite based on the Atlassian toolset (Jira,
• Confluence, Stash, etc.)
• Help develop and drive transformation of the Release Function as we continue to scale and
• deliver change more safely and more often.

Knowledge Skills:

• Strong experience in Release Management owning all types of change through to implementation.
• Experience working in fast paced agile environments and have understanding of agile/scrum project planning, execution and risk management
• Detailed, logical and diligent approach to delivery of releases
• Confident, collaborative and persuasive approach with stakeholders ensuring stakeholders are compliant to the Release and governance process.
• Release Management Tools:
• JIRA Release type for all implementation tasks and deployment steps.
• Confluence for all documentation and process.
• Experience with release processes including automated CI/CD DevOps pipelines to get code through test environments and to production
• Ability to navigate through multiple stakeholders to achieve common objectives.
• Experience contributing to, and achieving, continuous improvement goals

Experience:

• 10+ years of industry experience with at least 5 years in release management.