Release Manager

Release Manager

Location: Norwich, York or Eastleigh

Salary: circa £55k

This is a great job for someone who enjoys coordinating technology change, building strong stakeholder relationships and delivering successful releases. You'll be organised, proactive and passionate about improving how teams deliver change in a fast-paced environment.

A bit about the job

Technology change at Aviva is growing rapidly, and we're looking for a Release Manager to help us deliver it safely and successfully. You'll join our Quality Engineering Centre of Excellence, supporting the planning and delivery of releases across multiple platforms and business areas. Working closely with engineering, delivery and operational teams, you'll ensure change is implemented in a controlled and reliable way. You'll be accountable for release planning, governance, risk management and implementation activities. Your work will help protect customer services while enabling strategic business change.

You'll coordinate release activities across multiple teams and projects, ensuring changes are planned, scheduled and delivered successfully. Working closely with project teams, engineers and business stakeholders, you'll lead release planning, support deployment activities and oversee Go-Live events.

You'll manage risks, resolve delivery conflicts and help maintain a stable production environment. You'll also identify opportunities to improve release processes and contribute to continuous improvement across the wider technology organisation.

Skills and experience we're looking for:

• Experience managing software releases within a complex technology environment, with a strong understanding of release management principles and software delivery lifecycles (SDLC).
• Strong planning, organisation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple teams, manage risks and deliver successful release outcomes.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, able to build effective relationships across engineering, delivery, operational and business teams.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving, with experience identifying process improvements that enhance release quality, efficiency and delivery reliability.
• Experience working within Agile environments and knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines or release automation tools would be beneficial

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow - is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

· Starting salary circa £55k (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

· Bonus opportunity 10% - actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s

· Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14% in.

· 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

· Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it

· Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

· Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

· Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

· Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

· Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

· We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone - we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working - spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please give Chloe Nettley a call on 07795207964 or send an email to [email protected]