A position has opened for an experienced and dynamic Release Manager to join the Capital Markets team!
The Release Manager will work with agile teams to help the group meet their release schedule targets whilst ensuring release robustness and quality.
The role primarily involves managing release delivery for the groups leading Capital Markets FX and Equities systems that operate on on-premise and cloud platforms.
Due to the nature of the role, the candidate will be required to support deployments on Friday evenings and/or on Saturdays. When out of regular hours support is required, flexibility will be provided for a non-working day in lieu.
Release Manager Responsibilities:
The overall responsibility of the Release Manager is to identify all the tasks that need to be co-ordinated, managed, scheduled and planned across a release. The Release Manager will sit within the Application Services team working with Product Owners, Project Managers, Business Stakeholders, QA, Sec-Ops, infrastructure teams and Release Engineers. The Release Manager will orchestrate all Capital Markets deployments and upgrades.
The primary responsibilities will include:
- Working with product owners to ensure release requirements are well defined and scoped
- Manage lower environment allocation
- Hosting release planning meetings to build the deployment runbooks
- Participating in change forums
- Leading the deployment runbooks during execution including management of any issues that may arise
- Hosting Go/No-Go or test review calls during weekend execution
- Hosting washup review meetings post event
The candidate will be required to:
- Gain and maintain knowledge of application services and interfaces
- Be concise and exhibit exceptional interpersonal skills at all levels
- Seek inefficiencies and propose release process enhancements
The expectation is that the candidate will also:
- Support Infrastructure lead projects where application testing is required
- Support Disaster Recovery initiatives for Capital Market applications
- Support Application Patching activities
Candidate Background and Skills:
- Demonstrated experience within Release Management (or Project Management).
- Experience with Release Management tools (JIRA, Service Now, Cutover or similar)
- Experience with deployments to both physical and cloud-based environments (preferably AWS)
- Application knowledge and experience preferably gained within a tier 1 support environment
- Knowledge of deployment orchestration tools
- Basic understanding of application infrastructure including network principles and databases.
- Educated and holding a degree level qualification (preferably in an IT field)
- Proven innovator who is flexible, diligent and especially well organised
- Preferentially ITIL qualified
We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios. If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!
Opportunities:
As well as working for a leading global financial infrastructure and data provider, we aim to maximise each employees potential through personal development and through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe that remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits.
LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
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