Release Lead

About the role

**Title**: Release Lead - Business Platform Services

**Location**: Melbourne

We are now recruiting a Release Lead in Business Platform Services Tribe. The tribe is focused on providing simple and secure ways for our customers to identify themselves and engage with the bank and our partners, lifting digital usage and reducing digital fraud.

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

You will support and incorporate best practices in asset and services implementation, to enable squads to rapidly, reliably, and efficiently develop, test and release high quality solutions to deliver value for customers.

What will your day 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:
Act as the SME and owner of the change and delivery process across the Tribe
Provide 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
Promote and communicate planned releases to ensure fully visibility by all stakeholders
Drive continuous improvement of the release management framework and help coach and educate less experienced parties
Facilitate and lead agile release planning sessions and ensure outcomes are well communicated and agreed
Drive collaborative culture within Technology Areas and Tribes, providing transparency on priorities to ensure customer outcomes are delivered on time
Negotiate release schedule across platforms to present the best outcome for the customer and ANZ
Oversee the approval and management of deployment activities into production, e.g. code deployment, via representation to the Tribe Change Forum
Establish the delivery of governance, transition and approval of artefacts and processes, to enable a release to progress as planned. And feed that into the Tribe Change forum and production support
Develop, implement and leverage an Agile Release Train where required, to enable a cadenced delivery regime for the tribe to use
Co-ordinate and execute release activities in-squad, across squads, and at times, across tribes
Help squads to co-ordinate the completion of post-production verification activities
Establish and co-ordinate tribe-external engagements, for the purposes of release delivery
Communicate release delivery plans to stakeholders
Encourage common understanding of release planning and design skills, across the tribe, to enable others to play their role in managing change in a complex operating environment
Design the release plan together with the Product Owner, Tribe Performance Lead and Tech Area Architects to ensure alignment of priorities and timeframes
Develop and embed release engineering practices to influence the optimisation and flow of value through the releases
Track and resolve impediments for the release as well as post release
Translate Tribe/Squad initiatives into cross-platform or cross-tribe releases
Conduct Fit-gap analysis and feasibility assessment across the platforms/Tribes within the domain against the scope/timeframe/value of releases
Provide input into value assessment and do-ability
What will you bring?

We know not everyone will bring all of the skills and experience, and at ANZ we are focused on people bringing a growth mindset to their approach to work. Some of the skills we are looking for are below, but don’t worry if you don’t have all of these as learning on the job is the way we work. But back to some of the skills:
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
Dev-ops understanding (CI/CD Pipeline). Experience in common tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Service Now etc.
Exceptional stakeholder management experience
Ability to influence & negotiate via a variety of strategies, to build string stakeholder buy-in
An understanding of the release process and how it’s applied across squads/tribes
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
Strong knowledge and understanding of Tribe/Squad needs, and how