Release Manager

Working Pattern: Our working style is hybrid, but we recognise the importance of collaborative working with our colleagues often 2 days per week in one of our offices

Benefits: Discretionary annual bonus, 25 days holiday up to 30 days (depending on service), pension scheme with matched company contributions up to 10%, 1 paid day to ‘give back’

Don’t hesitate to apply for a role even if you don’t meet all the criteria; your unique strengths and eagerness to learn can be just as valuable.

You and Your Team:

Reporting to our Head of Delivery Centre’s, in this role you will own the overall solution/enhancement release process and act as the gatekeeper of the Group’s production estate.

As the  Release Manager you will oversee all aspects of the release management lifecycle. You will create integrated solutions, allowing projects to be delivered efficiently and on time. You will also oversee risk management, deployment, tracking and communications relating to the production estate.

In your day-to-day role, as a  Release Manager, you will:

• Manage the release schedule and key release milestones across products and projects.
• Maintain and publish a forward schedule of change.
• Effectively communicate release progress, risks, issues, and status using reports and dashboards to stakeholders.?
• Manage cross application/project/programme alignment and dependencies for a release to go to production.
• Negotiate, plan, and manage release activities.
• Communicate to stakeholders pre, post and during releases.?
• Coordinate with the delivery managers and engineers on deployments and provide backup support as needed.
• Provide details and analytics to make a go/no-go and roll-back decisions.
• Review status of the builds and branch merges to get a pulse of the release trains at all given times, knowing the SLA and criticality of certain releases.?
• Get status updates on environments deployed, release status and when they change.
• Authorise environment creation, access and use based on the project environment strategy.

What will make you stand out?

• Experience in managing all aspects of the end-to-end release process.
• Experience in creating a programme release cadence.
• Experience working with Salesforce.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as troubleshooting expertise.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritise effectively and escalate issues as required.
• Previous experience of working in a regulated environment ideally within financial services

Our average process takes up to 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team throughout the process.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

Your working life: If you prefer to work part-time, we'll make this happen whenever we can - whether this is to help you meet other commitments or strike a great work-life balance. A fear of losing your current working flexibility shouldn't hinder you from applying for new opportunities, which is why we aim to match your existing flexible working arrangements where possible.

Why work for us?

Back in 1880, our founder, JK Waddilove started to provide factory workers in Bradford, with essentials, when others wouldn’t, like coal and clothing.

Times have changed since then, society has moved on, and our market and customer needs have evolved. What has not changed though, is our long-established desire to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

Today we have stayed true to our purpose, just as we’ve always done, in our communities, for our customers, in an evolving and changing world.

It’s why we are here, it’s how we will stay, and as Vanquis Banking Group, we can look to the future, and look back at our past with pride.

At Vanquis Banking Group we believe in looking after our colleagues, so we do our best to create a rewarding, engaging, and supportive work environment across our various divisions.

We let our colleagues know we appreciate their hard work by offering competitive salaries, benefits, and a Group wide recognition scheme. All colleagues are eligible to join a pension scheme, and, after six months’ service, you can join our ‘Save as you Earn’ and 'Buy as you Earn' schemes.

We offer a range of training and development opportunities to help each of our colleagues maximise their potential, whatever their role. From your first day working with us, we’ll help you settle into your new role and are happy to talk to you about your career aspirations.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Here at Vanquis Banking Group, we embrace everyone’s unique strengths and identities to be themselves at work. Regardless of how you identify yourself, your sexual orientation, martial or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national background, faith, disability, or age – your experiences and background help enrich our teams, and most importantly help support our customers in the best way possible. At the end of the day, its our people that help us to fulfil the reason why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

Here’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available to help. You can contact us at talent.acquisition@vanquisbankinggroup.com