Release Manager

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Permanent

Hove, London or Cardiff (with hybrid working)

£50,000 - £60,000

5 January 2023

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Are you an experienced IT Release Manager? Do you want to be part of continuous growth and transformation within a purpose led organisation? We have the perfect and exciting opportunity for you! We now have an opportunity for an IT Release Manager to join an evolving Release and Environment Management team and help them to embed and manage a Release Management framework for our Group Function IT application estate.

Your role will be to work with the Environment Management team to ensure that our releases comply to Environment Management policies and processes and minimize disruption to agreed schedules. The role is also responsible for defining the release lifecycle, effective planning of releases, proactive communications with stakeholders, version control, risk and impact analysis on production systems, ensuring to protect integrity of live services.

You will also participate in onboarding new applications/services resulting from Projects/Programmes to BAU ensuring all the requirements for Release Management are captured at appropriate stage.

To highlight some of the detailed day-to-day responsibilities, we have listed a number of them below to give you a flavour of what to expect;

  • Planning: All release and configuration related activities are planned and managed within and across GFIT, Business units and IT function to deliver the defined release objectives.
  • Tracking: Ensure user requirements, functional and technical specifications are consistent with the goals and objectives of each release.
  • Reviewing: Release reviews are conducted at all relevant stages, identifying any exceptions to agree release criteria and appropriate responses are agreed with all internal and external stakeholders.
  • Reporting: Release progress is regularly and accurately reported to enable stakeholders to be fully aware of progress and any obstacles being experienced.
  • Managing: Risks, issues and dependencies that may impact release delivery to time, cost or quality are identified, evaluated, raised, owned and resolved.
  • Liaising: Remediation of both production defects and defects relating to releases by liaising with Test Manager, Development Managers and Support Teams.
  • CSI Mindset: To apply continuous service improvement to release and configuration process.
  • Governance & Compliance: Ensure that all processes are fit for purpose and effective, comply to governance and compliance requirements, IT Controls are effective and manged. Participate in Audit when required.
  • Service Design & Transition: Ensure Transition requirements are met for the new/amended IT services resulting in smooth on-boarding to BAU.

At Legal & General we're incredibly proud of the way in which we collaborate with one and other across the business and therefor we are looking for someone who shares the same view on the importance of collaborating and working as a team and building relationships. 

Below we have put some of the technologies/ areas of experience throughout the selection process for this role;

  • Previous experience in a Release Management role.
  • Source/Version control tools particularly GitHub
  • CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)
  • Experience with ServiceNow
  • Experience with JIRA
  • Experience with Sharepoint
  • An understanding of test strategies
  • Good knowledge of ITIL processes interfacing to release and configuration 
  • Cloud platform experience is advantageous
  • Environment Management experience is advantageous
  • A technical background is essential to understand/perform code deployment
  • A strong ability to communicate complex subjects clearly and concisely both verbally and in writing using appropriate (non-technical) language to Stakeholders at all levels

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

About L&G

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

About the business area

Securing pensions over the long term can be a challenge for many businesses. Our ambition at Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI) is to help companies and pension scheme trustees honour their defined benefit pension promises to their employees. We’re helping companies settle their pension liabilities so they can focus on growing their businesses, as well as helping to support their members’ financial security in retirement. And we’re investing for the long term to back our pension promises. In the last 30 years we’ve written more UK business than any other insurer, and we currently look after more than half a million pension policyholders. We're the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider, and a market-leading, multi-award winning business.  

Our commitment to Equal Opportunities

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

How to find out more

If this opportunity excites you but you’re not sure you meet all the requirements, or you’d like to know a bit more, please contact Andy Banks at andy.banks@landg.com (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-banks/).

If you’d like to be considered for this role, please submit your application through our careers website as we’re not accepting email applications.

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About L&G

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

About the business area

Securing pensions over the long term can be a challenge for many businesses. Our ambition at Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI) is to help companies and pension scheme trustees honour their defined benefit pension promises to their employees. We’re helping companies settle their pension liabilities so they can focus on growing their businesses, as well as helping to support their members’ financial security in retirement. And we’re investing for the long term to back our pension promises. In the last 30 years we’ve written more UK business than any other insurer, and we currently look after more than half a million pension policyholders. We're the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider, and a market-leading, multi-award winning business.  

Our commitment to Equal Opportunities

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

How to find out more

If this opportunity excites you but you’re not sure you meet all the requirements, or you’d like to know a bit more, please contact Andy Banks at andy.banks@landg.com (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-banks/).

If you’d like to be considered for this role, please submit your application through our careers website as we’re not accepting email applications.