Capital Markets - Weekend Release and Environment Manager

Your Responsibilities as a Release Manager:

The overall responsibility is to identify all the tasks that need to be coordinated, handled, scheduled and planned across a release.

You will sit within the Application Services team liaising with Product Owners, Project Managers, QA, Sec-Ops and Release Engineers. The Release Manager will orchestrate all Capital Markets deployments and upgrades.

The primary responsibilities will include:

• Liaising with product owners to ensure release requirements are well-defined and prioritized;
• Report and resolve technical problems and website incidents alongside our Corporate Technology team;
• Hosting planning meetings to organize deployment activities;
• Design, configure, automate and maintain continues integration and continuous delivery pipelines to support software integration and deployment;
• Handling the deployment runbooks during execution;
• Review of Cash Flow Models for various Securitized Products, assist in building models by data analysis and research;
• Hosting washup review meetings post event.

To be successful in this role, we would like you to:

• Put project management methodologies in place e.g. schedules of work; progress reports etc.;
• Gain and maintain knowledge of application services supported systems and interfaces;
• Lead application deployment issues working closely with application owners;
• Be concise and exhibit outstanding interpersonal skills at all levels;
• Gain an in-depth knowledge for all LSEG business processes (especially change management).

You should also possess the following:

• Participate in release sprint meetings;
• Ensures that current release (PVR) fixes are applied to the latest code path by scrum teams;
• Review and sign off release package content;
• Run and track environment allocation;
• Lead new environment creation requests;
• Handle environment Configuration Management.

Ideally, you should have:

• Demonstrated experience within the Release Management function;
• Experience of Release Management tools (JIRA, Service Now, Remedy, Excel, Cutover);
• Some experience or knowledge of orchestration tools (Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible);
• Experience of deployments to both physical and cloud based environments (preferably AWS);
• Experience in Linux operating systems;
• Project management experience including planning, resourcing and communication with sponsors;
• Application knowledge and experience preferably gained within a high-demand support environment in the financial services or exchange industry;
• Basic database and SQL knowledge;
• Exposure to basic network principles;
• Some experience of Control-M, HP Operations Manager, Subversion, Nexus is nice to have;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Confirmed ability to share information and work individually or as part of a team to solve problems;
• Some knowledge of Capital Markets of working in financial industry would be preferred;
• Show initiative, be flexible and extraordinarily organized;
• Customer focused;
• ITIL qualification preferred but not essential.