Deployment Manager

Join us as a Deployment Manager

• We’re looking for someone to oversee the design, planning, coordination and facilitation of the delivery of software packages or products
• You’ll lead the successful delivery of deployments into the live production of software packages or products from the feature or platform teams
• You'll be joining a forward thinking and collaborative team environment, where you can expect great visibility for you and your work as you’ll work with a range of stakeholders
• We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be delivering the successful deployment of software products or packages, building in quality as an integral part of all activities and making sure that the desired customer experiences and outcomes are achieved. We’ll look to you as a role model for robust risk management and maintaining effective and collaborative stakeholder working relationships, as you’ll be working with stakeholders from multiple levels, cross-domain, platform and feature teams.

Your role will also involve:

• Managing the strategic design of the implementation approach, resourcing plans and the creation of a detailed implementation plan for delivering each software or work package
• Defining and undertaking readiness activity, making sure that all required logistics for the implementation event are fully planned and cascaded across all relevant stakeholders
• Actively managing risk, issues, assumptions and dependencies and signing off and cascading a contingency approach
• Attending platform and feature team planning sessions, and working with the teams to understand upcoming work and make sure that plans are optimised
• Making sure that all activities are carried out, coordinated and validated in line with the implementation plan during the deployment

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for a capable communicator with experience of deployment in a technology or IT environment, particularly running complex projects spanning multiple teams. You’ll have excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills, and you’ll need strong leadership skills with experience of running or attending senior governance forums.

We’ll also look for you to have:

• A good understanding of Agile methodologies
• Strong technical skills in platform domain knowledge
• The ability to create and share a vision in line with our bank’s
• The ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature team, with a strong focus on business outcomes