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.

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.

• Experience managing software releases within a complex technology environment, with a strong understanding of release management principles and software delivery life cycles (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 Dev Ops practices, CI/CD pipelines or release automation tools would be beneficial

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 promiseisby 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 choosetobuyorsell up to 5days
• 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 parentalandcarer’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 useyour3paid volunteering daysto help others
• We take your
  wellbeing
  seriously withlots of support and tools

Take a look to learn more.

Put a salary into this calculator to see what yourtotal Aviva Reward could be.

We’reinclusive and welcome everyone– we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if youdon’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.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here