JOB DESCRIPTION
Location: Edinburgh
In this position, you'll be based in the Edinburgh office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at computershare.com/flex.
We give you a world of potential
Computershare have a fantastic opportunity for a Release Manager to our Technology team in Edinburgh. This position sits within a squad where you will build open and trusted relationships with your team and stakeholders.
Why would you choose this role when there are other Release Manager roles in the market? Well, there are a few things that make this role stand out:
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- Opportunity to make an impact in a role with a global aspect, as you will work alongside stakeholders in Australia, North American, Canada, Europe and Asia.
- This role will impact several business units giving you exposure to many diverse and interesting stakeholders, along with the opportunity to better understand the business.
- Great team culture where you will work well together and learn from each other.
Sound like the type of role for you? Keep reading to find out more about what you will be doing.
A role you will love
In this role you will be working closely with internal stakeholders and development partners to improve and standardise release processes, tools, and harmonise release cycles.
The release manager provides governance, control, and stability in our testing and production environments through robust deployment strategies and provides the key link between development and wider stakeholders, regional CTS and Global Development teams, program delivery, and management.
Some key responsibilities:
- Coordinate with stakeholders to determine change windows, considering business impacts, change freeze dates, release dependencies and global change landscape.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure environment readiness, data and switch overs are negotiated, planned and in place aligned to agreed schedule.
- Release governance, such as schedules, implementation plans, technical deployment instructions & checklists including review by relevant stakeholders.
- Liaise with the Development squads, Service Transition, Application Support, technical teams, Change Management and Quality Assurance, to ensure that implementation processes are efficient, optimised and include the requisite level of verification & regression testing.
- Identify and engage stakeholders based on the system and regions taking the release.
- Liaise with business lines, project managers and software development to negotiate and confirm scope of software releases. Monitor change requests to ensure customer expectations are understood and being met.
- Identify and communicate impacts of change to the business.
What will you bring to the role?
We are a busy team and operate in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, so you will be readily adaptable, approachable, and autonomous. You will also be very organized and look to bring people together.
Ideally, you will come from a Release Manager background and have a clear passion for the role along. As this is a global role, you will need to have exceptional stakeholder management and organisational skills and be able to build relationships with people all over the world.
Other key skills required for the role include:
- Previous experience as a Release Manager working within a delivery team environment. This role may also suit those with experience in IT Service Delivery or Change Management roles.
- Proven experience in successfully managing the delivery of software or projects across the full software development life cycle.
- Strong leadership, influencing, negotiation and communication skills
- Understanding of SDLC and DevOps concepts.
- Experience of global IT enterprise frameworks and associated release methodologies.
- A good awareness or experience of working in an ITIL environment would be favourable.
If this sounds like the right role for you, apply today!
Rewards designed for you
Flexible work to help you find the best balance between work and lifestyle.
Health and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family.
Invest in our business by setting aside salary to purchase shares in our company, and you'll receive a company contribution as well.
Extra rewards ranging from recognition awards and team get togethers to helping you invest in your future.
And more. Ours is a welcoming and close-knit community, with experienced colleagues ready to help you grow. Our careers hub will help you find out more about our rewards and life at Computershare, visit computershare.com/careershub.
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ABOUT US
A company to be proud of
We're a global leader in financial administration with over 12,000 employees across more than 22 different countries. At Computershare, it's more than just a job, our open and inclusive culture means that we will help you to grow, to move forward and make the most of our world of opportunities.
A diverse and inclusive place to work
At Computershare we value diversity and welcome applications from everyone, believing that an equal and inclusive culture is key to excellent results. One of the greatest advantages for our organisation is the talent and diversity of our people and we strive to ensure all our employees have an equal opportunity to contribute their ideas, bring their personality to their work and showcase their skills. For support with accommodations or adjustments during our recruitment process please visit computershare.com/access for further information.
Computershare is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.