Technology Delivery Release Manager
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The Technology Delivery Release Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and safeguarding the successful delivery of software releases across multiple teams. This role acts as the central point of alignment between development, QA, operations and business stakeholders, ensuring technical execution aligns with strategic objectives.
Specific Duties & Tasks- Release & Delivery Planning: Develop and maintain comprehensive release and delivery plans, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technical dependencies and resource availability.
- Delivery Alignment & Coordination: Act as the central coordinator between development, QA and operations teams to ensure seamless delivery execution.
- Business Impact Analysis: Conduct impact assessments for defects and delivery delays, translating technical issues into business terms to support informed decision making.
- Defect Management Leadership: Lead defect prioritisation, ensuring stakeholder alignment and timely resolution of critical issues.
- Managing Risk, Safeguarding Delivery and Release Timelines: Identify, monitor and manage risks to delivery and release timelines and cross team dependencies, proactively addressing blockers and escalating as needed.
- Release Governance: Enforce release governance standards and best practices, ensuring compliance with internal controls and external regulations.
- Release Leadership Support and Escalation Management: Accountable for all release support and escalation management before and during release cutovers, including on call duties.
- Single Gateway into Development / Delivery from Ops (L3 & QA): Serve as the single gateway for operational teams into the development and delivery pipeline, streamlining communication and issue resolution.
- L3 Incident Prioritisation: Lead prioritisation of Level 3 defects, collaborating with cross functional teams to assess severity, impact and resolution timelines.
- Roadmap Planning: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to align delivery plans with the broader product roadmap and strategic goals.
- Release Performance Management: Perform automated release performance management, assessing the performance and output of all delivery streams and reporting to partners as part of SLA oversight.
- Experience building, communicating and managing technical roadmaps and schedules.
- Experience managing multi geographical delivery teams with multiple partners.
- Strong project management skills to develop and maintain comprehensive release and delivery plans.
- Excellent coordination and communication skills, acting as the central point of coordination between development, QA and operations teams.
- Ability to conduct thorough business impact analysis, translating technical issues into business terms.
- Leadership in defect management, prioritising and ensuring stakeholder alignment.
- Proactive risk management skills to monitor and manage risks to delivery and release timelines.
- Knowledge of release governance standards and best practices.
- Strong organisational skills to serve as the single gateway for operational teams into the delivery pipeline.
- Expertise in prioritising Level 3 defects, collaborating with cross functional teams to assess severity and resolution timelines.
- Experience using automated tools for release performance management and strong analytical skills.
- Excellent communication skills for reporting to partners and a solid understanding of SLA management.
The ideal candidate communicates effectively with all levels of the business, prioritises workload efficiently, demonstrates strong stakeholder management skills, and is highly organised and detail oriented. They thrive in fast paced environments, embrace change, remain self motivated, and inspire others with a positive can do approach. Excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills, comfort with uncertainty, and the ability to think on their feet are essential.
Benefits- Generous holiday allowance
- Birthday day off
- Contributory pension scheme
- Healthcare coverage
- Discounts on mobile broadband and cable services
Virgin Media is an equal opportunities employer. Having a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business.