Description
Release Manager/Release Train Engineer - URGENT!
My client, a leading fintech is looking to hire a strong Release Manager/Release Train Engineer to help drive delivery in a Devops/on demand environment.
Key requirements:
- Define standards and create an empowered culture, to create a best in class, high performing team with a continuous improvement mind-set focused on the customer using best practices and knowledge to improve processes and services.
- Drive improvements to improve the delivery through DevOps and release on demand practices and ensuring built-in quality.
- Lead the release planning activities, driving the deliverables to ensure a clear vision, roadmap and backlog is available for planning meetings.
- Understand the scope of each release and its alignment to projects, business objectives and portfolio plans.
- Facilitate planning events and summarise objectives and publish for visibility/transparency.
- Establish and communicate the annual release calendar.
- Manage and optimise the delivery of change through the release cycle.
- Track the progress and execution of the release and ensure alignment with strategy to execution and manage dependencies effectively across multiple delivery teams.
- Manage the risks and issues that impact release scope, schedule and quality.
- Collate and distribute internal and external release notes.
- Conduct milestone reviews and go/no go meetings to confirm the readiness and status of delivery through the release life cycle.
- Co-ordinate the deployment, run books and implementation plans with key technical stakeholders.
- Driving automation and the CD processes and practices.
- Lead and co-ordinate the go-live activities.
- Extensive experience of release management covering the complete project life cycle, in a structured environment (both iterative/agile and waterfall)
- Experience of release management in a multiple platform distributed team
- Experience of managing multiple and complex value streams across the full life cycle of product development
- Experience in running a SAFe Agile Release Train
- Experience of coaching leaders, teams and scrum masters in lean-agile practices and mindsets.
- Extensive experience of change management and release management tooling.
- Payments experience desirable
EU Nationals ONLY