Description:
This role includes ensuring that the planned releases are appropriately tested, delivered to an agreed release timeline whilst meeting the quality expectations set and protecting the integrity of the Live production environments.
What You Will Be Doing (the Role)
- Manage a rolling portfolio of technical\functional system releases, providing guidance on the prioritisation of release candidates through the established policy whilst engaging key stakeholders from the Business and DTI
- Identify release readiness activities, creating detailed implementation plans, managing deployment rehearsals and ensure live implementations are controlled and managed appropriately to agree governance controls i.e. attending the Release Control Board.
- Orchestrate the planning, tracking, reporting and assistance for the delivery of release through the software delivery lifecycle. Drive delivery best practice with a focus on production quality and readiness
- Ensure Services are transitioned from change to live minimising risk and disruption to the organisation
- Manage relationships with partners, internal and external stakeholders to successful implementation of specified releases and contribute to the evolution of the Release Management Framework using Agile and DevOps methodologies
- Ensure risks & issues with regards to release management are being effectively managed and progressed by the nominated owners. Works collaboratively with all participants in the software development life cycle (SDLC) to improve software engineering processes and practices associated with continuously building and deploying software
- Supporting operations out of hours as part of an on-call rota
What you will get from the role?
- Stimulating, innovative and experimental work aimed at improving the collection of financial regulation data across the organisation
- Exposure to new ideas, opportunities to increase your knowledge and understanding of new technologies in Financial Regulation
- A sense of purpose in the job, knowing that you’re helping to serve those in need