Release Manager

**ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets**:
**Why join the ASX?**:
When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose - to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.

Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.

**We are more than a securities exchange**:
The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We’re proud of the diversity of our organisation and the culture of inclusion that all our people help to build every day. Our employee-led groups are known for celebrating cultural and religious events, championing LGBTIQ+ inclusion (recently achieving AWEI Bronze), inspiring giving and volunteering, promoting gender equality, and wellbeing. We are an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (WGEA) and a member of the Champions of Change Coalition for the advancement of gender equality in Australia.

**Your responsibilities**
- Communicate the scope and purpose of releases, environment refreshes, release schedules, release status, and escalation of issues and risks, while ensuring that the quality and integrity of releases are maintained.
- Plan and facilitate release activities across development and testing, ensuring quality and timely deployments across all environments.
- Assist in managing interdependencies to ensure milestone adherence, and ensure the integrity of releases, which can be measured.
- Maintain consistency of releases across sandbox environments, testing and external test environments.
- Define and manage technical change control processes for release readiness criteria, including completing all implementation readiness artefacts and ensure all changes meet readiness criteria prior to deployment
- Drive continuous improvement in the release process
- Coordination, release management and packaging across the CHESS projectCommunication with vendors and internal delivery teams for the and packaging of releases.

**Your experience and qualifications**

**Must have**
- Experience working in large, critical infrastructure projects
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience in planning, scheduling, testing, deploying, and controlling software releases.
- Experience and knowledge of release management principles, methodologies and tools.
- Expertise should cover Release Management across a range of environments from legacy on-prem environments through to contemporary container-based Cloud workloads.
- Experience with the Software Development Lifecycle, continuous delivery/continuous integration (CI/CD) principals.
- Experience with software version control, branching strategy and dependency management.
- Help streamline the release strategy for the Engineering group, building towards a single monthly release for the team.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across Architecture, Information Security, Finance, Risk, Compliance, QE&T.
- Build out comprehensive KPIs, metrics, and SLAs to measure, performance and success rates of Releases,
- Manage knowledgebase of standards, training material, etc.
- Identify opportunities for cloud efficiency enhancements across the organization
- Experience in highly regulated financial environments.
- Worked in a cross-functional, agile delivery team
- Comfortable presenting at various forums and to senior stakeholders.

**Nice to have**
- Strong stakeholder management, collaboration and leadership qualities.
- Strong sense of ownership, customer service and integrity demonstrated through clear communications.
- Passionate about Release Engineering
- Understand challenges and trade-offs building, deploying, and running solutions in different environments.
- Understanding of cloud-native frameworks and landscapes