Closing date: 09/05/2024
Career area: IT
Specialism: IT (including Digital) & Operations
Salary: Up to £50,000 dependent on experience
About the role
It's an exciting time to join the team here at AXA, with significant investment planned in all UK&I businesses to transform and deliver new digital services to our customers and streamline and automate our business processes. We're looking for a Release Manager to join us on an initial 6 month fixed term contract. You'll support the existing release team to ensure that both business as usual and cloud releases keep to schedule and are consistent and smooth through non production and production environments. You'll coordinate and run the implementation, managing release issues and measuring the effectiveness of releases to identify and implement improvements, optimising delivery. 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. What you'll be doing:
1. Responsible for overall release planning and liaison with key contacts to deliver the agreed functionality to agreed timescales on the cloud and commercial insurance releases
2. Reviewing release content and scope to identify and communicate any increase in risk, impact or issues relating to the release as a whole
3. Managing release status communications with key stakeholders
4. Ensuring release readiness for pre-production and production check points
5. Defining, documenting, and communicating the release process to stakeholders
6. Managing resulting warranty periods ensuring any production defects are identified and resolved in line with business expectations
7. Identifying, delivering and communicating process improvements
About you
What we’re looking for:
8. Proven track record of release management in large projects/ programmes/releases following an agile delivery approach
9. Experience of public cloud release management and migration programs is desirable
10. Expert understanding of end-to-end IT solutions and the IT delivery lifecycle
11. Experience of co-ordinating and managing multiple resources to complete production implementations/deployments
12. Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
13. Strong stakeholder management
14. Willingness to learn new technologies, skills and methodologies
As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.
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:
15. Competitive annual salary of up to £50,000 dependent on performance
16. Discretionary company & performance-based bonus
17. Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
18. Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
19. 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
20. Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
21. AXA employee discounts
22. Gym benefits