Title: Agile Release MAnager

Location: Hybrid - 3 days a week in Manchester

Salary: From: £55,000

Who we are:

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We've been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £80 billion and over 500,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

Purpose Of Role:

Reporting to the Senior Scrum Master, the Agile Release Engineer is responsible for supporting all activities required to ensure oversight, management and control of squad-based releases through development, QA and live.

Working closely with the Senior Scrum Master, and the delivery team (including but not limited to Engineering Managers, Programme Managers, Project Managers, Product Managers, QA managers and Scrum Masters) the Agile Release Engineer will support the planning of ii's release schedule across assigned technologies, managing inter-dependencies both from a technical perspective but also business readiness.

The focus of this role is delivery of change through agile CI/CD pipeline delivery, but also works closely with the Service Management Analyst and Implementation Coordinator to ensure alignment and coordination across the entire portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

As directed by the Senior Scrum Master, work with Project Managers, Product Managers and Scrum Masters to support the management of ii's Agile release schedule across Programmes, Projects, Agile Delivery Squads and Infrastructure Teams

Support the identification and management of interdependencies or risks between all release types and the overall change pipeline, ensuring appropriate communication, reporting and control including escalation to the Senior Scrum Master as required

Support the identification and management of squad change concentration risk through ensuring the volume of change impacting different customer segments and internal departments over given periods of time is acceptable and consumable

Understand end enforce ii's change and release control standards and policies, ensuring that while change is released safely, it is also done in a pragmatic way that doesn't stifle our rate of change and is within the company risk appetite

As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, pro-actively manage ii's CI/CD development and test environments working with technical teams to establish best practice, address BAU issues and ensure optimal availability to support the change delivery life cycle

As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, work with each technology team to manage the CI/CD pipelines through the identification and management of deployment backlog, risks and dependencies

As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, co-ordinate regular deployments of ii's mobile applications across agile delivery squads

As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, support implementation management where a change or series of changes touches on multiple platforms with a number of both technical and non-technical teams involved

Contribute to the establishment and management of best practice release management processes, tools, standards and reports

Contribute to the establishment of improved processes to enhance release delivery quality and to improve visibility/performance across the portfolio of projects/activities

Contribute to a knowledge management platform and library structure to create, store, and share best practices and documentation from releases

Ensure timely notification of issues/problems and make recommendations for resolution to release & project teams and resolve and/or escalate testing issues where required

Contribute towards a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists

Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with trends/developments and develop expertise in ii services, applications, infrastructure, analytical tools and techniques that can contribute to effective change delivery

Support any Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews as required

Contribute to the clear and available reporting on test environment use for agile delivery, including details of any project or workstream actively using any environment. Additionally, this includes ensuring details of code/build versions are also clearly evidenced and available to view at any time

For any test environment issues logged - working with own team, Product Analysts, IT Support areas, Development and QA testing to triage, resolve, retest and close issues in a timely manner - helping to maintain test environments as fit for purpose. This also includes being able to provide clear reporting on issues as required

Requirements

Skills & Experience Required:

Planning and Release Management
Hands-on experience with Agile/adaptive delivery models, ideally in large, complex environments
Proven knowledge of Scrum and Kanban delivery gained from experience working in and agile environment
Knowledge of SAFe and implementation of agile release trains and managing release schedules across multiple squads.
Ability to apply strategic improvements to process remove/manage risks and introduce efficiencies to ways of working
Excellent Communicate skills at all levels of the organisation

Work to tight deadlines, escalate and prioritise workloads where required

Confidently deliver information to mixed audiences

Conflict resolution, with the ability to successfully negotiate and influence

Stakeholder Management to senior levels

Good working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel, MS Project preferred but not essential

Strong understanding and experience working with workflow collaboration tools such as Jira or Confluence

Knowledge of the Financial Services industry

Good understanding of technology and systems architecture

Excellent understanding of development lifecycle, specifically CI/CD

An understanding of release and project delivery lifecycles

Benefits

Group Personal Pension Plan - 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution
Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
Private Medical Insurance - Provided by Bupa
25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays
Staff Discounts on our investment products
Personal & Well-being Fund - Supporting your physical and mental wellness
Retail Discounts - Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers
Voluntary Flexible Benefits - Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle

Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful.

interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation—whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive

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