Modernisation Release Manager
£650-£750 per day
City of London - Hybrid
MUST HAVE insurance tech transformation/modernisation experience.
- release management
- project management
- organisation skills
- be responsible for overseeing the release management lifecycle, including scheduling, coordinating and the management of release for multiple applications across various initiatives and project teams.
- releases can be inclusive of application updates, operating system patches, security improvements, hardware upgrades.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan the release windows and cycles across the Programme, in conjunction with the different project teams. Ensure cutover plans are in place and correctly managed.
- Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, impact, schedule, and quality.
- Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time.
- Coordinate release content and effort based on the potential impact of releases that need to be co-ordinated across the project teams, aiming for a release on demand philosophy, where possible.
- Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations.
- In conjunction with the project teams, co-ordinate Deployments, Runbooks and Implementation Plans.
- Environments readiness management, ensuring enterprise-wide release discipline through planning and implementation of a release calendar, including code freeze and release windows.
- Support the team implementing automated deployments.
- Weekly Release Reporting.
- Communicate release details and schedules to the Business, as required.
- Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities.
- Work with environment manager and release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
- Maintains an Enterprise release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.
- Continually work towards making improvements in the release process.
- Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
- Ensure that automated CI/CD are in place across the project team to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms.
- Participate in CAB meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks.
- Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 2-4 years of previous release and/or project management experience, (Solid understanding of project management principles preferred).
- 8-10 years of experience in information systems operations environment in systems analysis or development.
- Formal training in project management practices preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle.
Desired Skills:
- Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Knowledge of cloud and on-premises technologies.
- Ability to work with diverse teams and facilitate collaboration.
- Knowledge of CI/CD Practices
Modernisation Release Manager
£650-£750 per day
City of London - Hybrid
MUST HAVE insurance tech transformation/modernisation experience.