Technical Release Manager

Job Description

At M&G our purpose is to help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly. As a business, we are continuing to take steps towards a sustainable future, delivering better long-term solutions for our customers and clientsand identifying new opportunities to make a positive impact for our environment and communities . To help us achieve our vision were looking for exceptional people who live our values of care and integrity and who can inspire others; embrace change; deliverresults and keep it simple. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role. At M&G we are just beginning an exciting digital transformation towards a more agile, customer-centric and digital-first way of working. We have lots to improve and plenty of interesting challenges wed like you to get involved in. We are on a journey to reinvent how people think about their financial future. Making conversations around retirement easier and more relevant, offering diversified products, rethinking and improving the end-to-end experience for our customers and using technologyto effectively engage with them in real time and help them make better decisions about their finances. The journey has started already, are you ready to join us We need the best digital minds onboard in order to achieve our goal. We promote a supportive, diversified, international environment with an engineering culture were proud of. We encourage personal growth and invest in open-minded engineers keen on learning, who continuously try to make things better. THE ROLE

• To be aligned with Retail & Savings Technology to shape and manage the pipeline of technology changes, i.e. releases, within that portfolio.
• Coordinate and deliver regular, high quality releases into Production following the Agile development process, ensuring releases comply our governance and best practices.
• To engage proactively with portfolios from a release management perspective at all stages of their lifecycle.
• To be fully engaged with the portfolio leads, product owners, project managers, development teams and business and their representatives in order to encourage earlier and continuous release planning.
• To organise and co-ordinate the implementation of releases including overseeing a virtual team across multiple departments.
• Run and own release retrospectives to drive continuous improvement to increase efficiency and effectiveness of release delivery as M&G grows
• Where necessary perform detailed implementation planning taking into account: risks; internal and external dependencies; resources; adherence to controls.
• Be available to work out of office hours as required owning implementation plans.
• Administration / Development of the logistic suite based on the Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence, Stash, etc.)
• Help develop and drive transformation of the Release Function as we continue to scale and deliver change more safely and more often.

WHAT WE USE Some of the frameworks, tools and technologies in our stack - but different expertise is welcome:

• Release Management
  • JIRA Release type for all implementation tasks and deployment steps.
  • Confluence for all documentation and process.
• Frontend - React for our Design System and SPAs.
  • Semantic HTML, CSS / SCSS / CSS in JS, Javascript (ES6), TypeScript, Webpack, Lerna, Yarn and NPM,
  • Jest, Enzyme and Cypress testing.
• BackEnd -
  • Spring Boot for our microservices ecosystem.
  • Cosmos DB on Microsoft Azure with MongoDB API.
  • Kubernetes and Docker for orchestration and containerization.
  • Azure DevOps for Repos, CI and Release pipelines.
  • SonarQube and Checkmarx for static code analysis and security scanning on both the frontend and the backend.
  • Apigee for building and surfacing APIs for system integrations.
  • Swiftype, Auth0, Kurtosys, Blazemeter, Akamai CDN and WAF
• Salesforce for CRM.
• Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.5 for Content Management
• ETL -
  • Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, Change Data Capture, Data Quality
  • Oracle DBMS, PL/SQL, Unix scripting, Maestro

EXPECTED COMPETENCIES / EXPERIENCE

• At least 5 years experience in Release Management owning all types of change through to implementation.
• Experience working in fast paced agile environments.
• Detailed, logical and diligent approach to delivery of releases
• Confident, collaborative and persuasive approach with stakeholders ensuring stakeholders are compliant to the Release and governance process.
• Experience contributing to, and achieving, continuous improvement goals
• Take personal accountability, collaborate with colleagues, make effective decisions and help others operate at their best.
• Operate in a fair, trustworthy, and genuine way with my colleagues and customers

Recruiter - Martyn Jack We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity,age, sexual orientation, nationality or disability we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.