Release Manager

Salary

Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year

• Proven experience leading release, deployment, or service transition activities within complex technology environments
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, Dev Ops, and automated release processes
• Experience coordinating releases and managing dependencies across multiple teams and stakeholders at scale
• Ability to use data and engineering metrics to improve release performance, reduce risk, and enhance delivery outcomes
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence engineering, operations, and business teams

• Define and evolve release and deployment strategies that enable safe, efficient, and frequent delivery across multiple platforms
• Lead cross-team release planning and coordination, ensuring visibility of dependencies, risks, and environment readiness
• Drive the adoption of modern release practices including automation, policy-as-code, and progressive delivery approaches such as canary and blue/green deployments
• Use data and engineering metrics such as lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and MTTR to identify bottlenecks and improve delivery performance
• Lead and develop a small team, building capability and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and shared ownership of release outcomes

• CI/CD
• Dev Sec Ops
• Dev Ops
• Support
• Flow

We are a UK financial services organisation based in Yorkshire, offering a hybrid working model and a 35-hour working week in a permanent role. We work across engineering and service delivery, collaborating closely with platform owners, Dev Sec Ops , quality engineering, and environments teams to deliver change faster, safer, and with greater confidence. We offer a large-scale, high-impact environment with flexible working options, ongoing learning and leadership exposure, and a benefits package that includes an annual discretionary bonus, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and holiday trading, up to 10% matched pension, private medical insurance, an electric car salary sacrifice scheme, colleague mortgage benefits, 3 paid volunteering days, gym discounts and wellbeing support, and inclusive employee networks.