Description
Release/Implementation Manager - 6 month contract - West Sussex.
My client, a financial services blue chip, are looking for a Release/Implementation Manager to manage the migration of applications from an existing Mainframe system to a Windows OS.
Responsibilities/Accountabilities
- Take an active part of the transformation management team taking ownership for the planning and timely executions of Mainframe and mid-range migration events.
- Establish and gain stakeholder buy-in to a Service Readiness framework which shall include the service recipient's/service owner's pre-requisites for the implementation and cutover. This shall map against the Programme's standard gating criteria but shall include input criteria for:
- Technical readiness: functional and non-functional test completion
- Business readiness: training, communications and business testing
- Financial readiness: analysis and testing to ensure probity of changes on financial reporting
- Procedural readiness: testing shutdown and start-up procedures to ensure data and sequencing remains synchronised, upstream/downstream systems are not negatively impacted
- Interface readiness: complete inventory with ownership and detailed cutover procedure per interface
- IS Service readiness: bespoke set of agreed criteria for major changes (Service Introduction)
- Other readiness criteria as appropriate, for instance Claim Analytics/Operations
- Work with Mainframe Migration Project Managers and the Business Engagement Manager to create and own detailed implementation/release plans. These shall include roles and responsibilities of each participant, checkpoints, rollback & back-out procedures, worst case scenario preparation, agreed/tested sign-off processes and escalation points.
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- Act as the configuration and release manager for the Programme, ensuring that all code versions are understood and managed across the parties developing on an application
- Assure the "dry run" process of migration and roll-back, including facilitation for business-readiness functions
If you think this is a suitable match for you, please send in your CV ASAP.