Job Title: Release Manager

Location: Home Based (Can be fully remote with occasional visits required to Reading)

Salary: Competitive

Job type: Permanent, Full time

Guardian was "re-born" with a simple objective….to make life better. It's at the core of everything we do, and we've worked hard to turn an idea into an exciting business proposition. We've bought together the best capability, technology and people to create a business that challenges conventional thinking, and approaches things differently.

We believe that by being trusting we will be trusted in return. For our business that means providing Financial Advisers and their clients with products and services that they can be certain of. For you that means being part of a team where you can really make a difference, and part of a culture that is driven to make life better. You'll be in an environment that you can trust to do everything it can to help you grow and succeed.

If you would like to build your career and be part of an exciting, innovative and growing business then join us at Guardian to experience 'Life. Made better'.

About the role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Release Manager to plan, coordinate, and manage the release of software and related projects for Guardian Financial Services.

The Release Manager will work closely with developers, testers, project managers, and stakeholders to ensure that releases are delivered on time, with high quality, and with minimal disruption to the business. The ideal candidate will be familiar with cloud technology, especially Azure, and have experience with DevOps techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

Some of your key responsibilities within this role would be:

* Plan and coordinate the release of software and related projects for Guardian Financial Services, including defining the scope, schedule, and resources required

* Ensure that all release activities are carried out in accordance with established processes and policies, including governance and quality assurance methodology

* Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected

* Create plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule

* Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the software successfully

About you:

* Significant experience in release, change and configuration control

* High levels of professionalism and interpersonal skills

* Highly organised in creating and compiling documentation

* Enjoy what you do - great team ethos

* Able to grasp new concepts quickly and efficiently

* A strong logical and troubleshooting mind-set, with excellent time management skills

* Ability to work remotely with little management supervision.

* Positive and enthusiastic approach and a strong team ethic

* Ability to multi-task, be flexible and deal with interruptions and change

* Excellent communication skills

* A deep understanding of cloud platforms, open source and SaaS services to better enable and enhance the delivery of quality assurance and testing services.

* Proven track record of agile change and release management techniques and communicating results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, preferably in an agile, CI/CD environment

Knowledge / Understanding of the following would be advantageous:

* Understanding and knowledge of DevOps

* MS Suite of products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint

* Agile Delivery

* ITIL Change and Release Management

* 3+ years of experience in software release management

* Powershell Scripts

* Java Script

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Business Change Manager, IT Manager, Project Management, Team Leader, Technical Manager, Implementation Manager, Change Management, IT Change Manager, IT Project Manager, IT Change Project Manager, Project Manager, IT Build Manager, Programme Manager may also be considered for this role