It’s an exciting time to join the team here at AXA, with significant investment planned in all UKandI businesses to transform and deliver new digital services to our customers, and streamline and automate our business processes. As part of this, we’re looking for a talented Release Manager to lead the technical delivery of our products, and achieve a seamless flow of software releases throughout the development lifecycle, through to production and early life support.
At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, either at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.
What you’ll be doing:
Accountability for the coordination and implementation planning of releases through to the production estate
Liaising with delivery and engineering teams to establish and manage overall functional and technical release scope
Responsibility for overall release reporting, presenting clear visibility of risks, KPI’s and RAG status updates to business and IT stakeholders
Defining, documenting and communicating the release process to release stakeholders
Providing early life support post release, ensuring unforeseen issues are triaged and managed accordingly
Accountability for subject matter expertise in the field of release engineering, including strong tools knowledge
Challenging our ways of operating through leveraging the latest technology, methodologies and market trends to spot and implement new and efficient ways of working
Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.