AdresseIt’s an exciting time to join our UK IT Health Release Management team here at AXA UK, with significant investment planned in all UK&I businesses to transform, deliver new digital services to our customers and streamline and automate our business processes. We're looking for a talented Release Manager to join us on a 6-month fixed term contract.
In this role you'll 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. You'll help us build our Change capability, accelerate the delivery of our strategic programmes and drive the adoption of unified Agile ways of working and more effective change delivery across UK&I we’re looking for a talented individual to join the growing team.
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. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, such as part-time or condensed hours, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.
What you'll be doing:
- Accountable for the overall coordination & implementation planning of releases, through to the production estate.
- Ensuring releases are delivered smoothly and to schedule through matrix managing a team of specialists using agile techniques.
- Consulting with Delivery & Engineering teams to establish and manage overall functional and technical release scope, ensuring releases deliver significant benefit and monetary value to the organisation.
- Responsible for overall release reporting, presenting clear visibility of risks, KPI’s and RAG status updates to business and IT stakeholders.
- Driving the overall release quality, prior to implementation ensuring we remain compliant with our security and governance controls and that necessary evidence is present and acceptable.
- Providing early life support post release and ensure unforeseen issues are triaged and managed accordingly, upon service stability lobby support from operational and business stakeholders to exit warranty.
- Continuously challenge and evolve our ways of operating, through leveraging latest technology, methodologies, and market trends to spot and implement new and efficient ways of working that contribute to the overarching ALM strategy.
- Working as a subject matter expertise in the field of release engineering, including strong tools knowledge and understanding of environment management & branching strategies, through the use of Microsoft Dev Ops.
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.
Your Profile
- Experience operating within a Release function within an Agile environment
- Proven hands-on experience of MS Azure DevOps tool and underpinning knowledge of industry best practices
- Experience of managing a release pipeline for .Net enterprise IT platform
- Stakeholder management experience
- Understanding of Agile and DevOps practices
- Strong attention to detail and quality
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Flexible attitude to work, be able to work unsociable hours when required
About AXA
With a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.
But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.
You’ll work in an open and supportive environment where you’ll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things – nationally and internationally. You’ll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you’ll enjoy real responsibility, really early on.
Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion. But at AXA UK, these values form an integral part of everything we do. For us, it’s about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone – regardless of difference.
About the Entity
AXA UK Support Functions power AXA’s three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you’ve got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you’re just starting out, we’ll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.
What We Offer
At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:
- Competitive salary of up to £50,000 dependent on experience
- Annual company & performance-based bonus
- Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
- Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
- 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 3 days leave
- AXA employee discounts
- Gym benefits
To apply, click on the ‘apply for this job’ button, you’ll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long term health condition or disability and require reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, we’re proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to tanzeela.mehjabeen@axa-insurance.co.uk.
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