Environment and Release Manager

Latitude Money Technology is a newly assembled team of individuals, many from a start-up background who all share a commitment to solving problems quickly and efficiently while delivering a major technology transformation for the strategic Latitude Money Business unit. We really believe that our customers should be delighted by great products, and that great products are produced by empowered teams.

Let's talk about the role.

This role is responsible for Following release deployment tasks.
- Ensure proper documentation of Q2 and Salesforce environment configurations, release processes, as well as many up and downstream systems.
- Ensure that our stakeholders are educated on these.
- Monitor and manage the availability and performance of environments.
- Manage the deployment of releases into the various production and non-production environments.
- Coordinating with all parties to ensure there is agreement between stakeholders as to the content of each release.
- Coordinate with development, testing, and operations teams to ensure seamless deployment of releases.
- Planning and Execution of the Implementation Plans and ensuring implementation readiness prior to production releases.
- Engage as necessary with enterprise-wide release governance processes like the Change Advisory Board
- Participate in release and sprint retrospectives to continuously improve processes.
- Co-ordinate deployment activities of incidents/issues next day after a deployment/ implementation until they are fixed. This includes running Incident/Issue meeting next day onwards engaging all relevant parties (e.g. dev, support, QA)

Let’s talk about you:

- Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Deployment or Environment Manager, or significant experience leading technology deliveries.
- Experience with lending and receivables systems.
- A proven track record of managing small teams.
- Experience with Q2 and Salesforce is desirable but not mandatory.
- Understanding of IT processes including change control and configuration management.
- Problem solving - the ability to systematically identify root causes to problems or issues and to define options for resolution in a timely manner.
- Strong Communication skills
- Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
- Ability to build and maintain an effective team environment
- Strong influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong strategic and lateral thinking ability, action-oriented, results focused
- Ability to manage multiple competing issues concurrently, with tight time frames
- Strong Delivery Focused
- Ability to challenge the current processes to improve efficiency
- Active / Inclusive leader who drives decisions and outcomes
- Self-motivated, capable of working with limited supervision, pro-actively reporting on status and tasks

Sound like you? That's a good sign In return for your energy and ideas, we offer a flexible working environment and great compensation. We always support a safe, healthy, engaging, and productive working environment for all employees and workers, whether that be in your home and office, or a combination of both.

We're Latitude, partners in money Latitude may seem like the new kid on the block, but it's taken us almost a hundred years to become an overnight success. Digital payments, cards, loans, and insurance is what we offer - but what we really are is a platform that helps people shop and live better. Always living and breathing our values. Act Right, Show Care, Be Curious.- Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check (including criminal history and bankruptcy check) prior to commencement of employment. Only open to Australian or New Zealand Permanent Residents or Citizens._