Release Lead

About the role

**Role Location**: Docklands VIC

**Role Type**: Permanent full-time

**Team**: Banker Digital Experience (BDX)

At Banker Digital Experience Tribe in ANZ, we are directed by Customer Service. We firmly believe in providing a great experience to our Bankers and Customers by delivering the services they require, using our technology that works seamlessly and provides the right features and information which will support them to thrive.

As a Release Lead, you’ll champion Agile ways of working across multiple squads, and will be working with Product Owners, Analysts and Release / Delivery Leads across Tribes to convert business initiatives into cross-platform releases of new technology features or enhancements successfully.

What a typical day might look like

The Release Lead is a servant leader who fosters a continuous improvement culture and a supportive environment. Depending on the day you might be:
Providing Release Management as a service to the Tribe, working closely with Squad Product Owners, Engineers and Technical leads to coach, plan and manage successful implementation across multiple products and teams
Supporting and incorporating best practices in asset and services implementation, enabling squads to rapidly, reliably and efficiently develop, test and release high quality solutions to deliver value for customers.
Influencing squads to transform release processes to improve delivery and help manage inter-Tech Area dependencies
Promoting and communicating planned releases to ensure full visibility by all stakeholders
Facilitating and leading agile release planning sessions and ensuring outcomes are well communicated and agreed to
Negotiating release schedules across platforms to present the best outcome for the customer and ANZ
Overseeing the approval and management of deployment activities into production e.g. code deployment, via representation to the Tribe Change Forums and Business Review Boards
Establishing the delivery of governance, managed run transition and approval of artefacts and processes to enable a release to progress as planned.
Co-ordinating and executing release activities in-squad, across squads, and at times, across tribes
Establishing and co-ordinating tribe-external engagements, for the purposes of release delivery
Developing, implementing and leveraging an Agile Release Train where required, to enable a cadenced delivery regime for the tribe to use
Ongoing tracking and resolving impediments for the release as well as post release

What will likely be in your toolkit?

Experience in scheduling work to optimise workflow/throughput through a number of Technology Areas to maintain velocity and team cadence
You will have at least 10+ years of experience in project delivery roles that encompass people, process and technology liaising with multidisciplinary teams implementing agile based software product increments
Good agile fundamentals and experience working in a pure agile / scaled agile delivery environment
Dev-ops understanding (CI/CD Pipeline). Experience in common tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Codefresh, Service Now etc.
Very good stakeholder management experience
An understanding of the delivery process and how it’s applied across squads/tribes
Ability to develop an iterative delivery plan inclusive of schedule, staffing and success release criteria
Able to understand technology principles and tools, to effectively provision and co-ordinate complex interdependencies as they are expressed in installations and implementations
Knowledge and experience with cross-platform/cross tribe integration testing
Ability to coordinate end to end delivery across multiple technology areas
Keen eye to identify dependencies and risks and come up with mitigations plans accordingly
Evaluate risks to the integrity of service environment inherent in proposed implementations (including availability, performance, security and compliance of the business services impacted)
Good knowledge and understanding of Tribe/Squad needs, and how these are delivered via the technology domain
Attention to detail - demonstrate a high level of attention to detail with plans, risks, mitigations, schedules and communications

About ANZ

At ANZ, everything we do boils down to ‘why’ - our purpose - to shape a world where people and communities thrive. We're focused on seeing our people thrive just as well as our customers. We'll give you every opportunity to develop your career. We are responding faster to changing customer requirements, focusing on the things that matter most, energising our people, eliminating waste and reducing bureaucracy. A happy workplace is a thriving one. So in order to attract and keep the best talent, and say thanks for the hard work, we make sure all our employees are rewarded.