Release Manager

• A great opportunity to work with one of Australia's largest general insurers
• Open to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane candidates - Hybrid / Remote working
• Play a key role in leading organisation wide release strategy

About Hollard

Hollard Insurance is part of the Hollard Group of Companies and one of Australia's largest general insurers Australia and New Zealand. We underwrite a broad range of general insurance products, including motor, home, contents, business, bicycle and pet, in proud partnership with some of Australia's biggest consumer brands and broker businesses. As an independent and privately owned company, we believe we can go further together – for our people, customers, communities and partners – through an innovative approach to providing insurance.

Our state-of-the-art facilities in North Sydney reflect our commitment to providing innovative workspaces that support hybrid and remote work.

Your Team

You'll join a Test, Environment & Release Practice team, that encompasses testing for Hollard Business, Agency Partners and Software Vendors. The team is responsible for the testing of processes and systems to support Agency Partners manage their Insurance portfolios across the Quote, Policy and Claims functions.

Your Role

Reporting to the Environment and Release Manager in the Testing, Environment and Release Practice. The Release Manager will coordinate with various teams to plan, schedule and coordinate the release activities and resolve conflicts to ensure successful releases.

We are seeking an experienced Release Manager to lead the organisation wide release strategy involving creating and maintaining enterprise-wide release calendar, ensuring alignment with program/project timelines, BAU releases and monitor and report on the progress of the enterprise-wide releases.

Your duties and responsibilities

• Coordinate and schedule enterprise-wide releases, ensuring alignment with program/project timelines, BAU delivery timelines and business objectives
• Manage and monitor progress of releases from inception to delivery
• Produce deployment run books and implementation plans, including rollback strategies as required
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and successful releases including developing ongoing relationships with the business via EPMO
• Implementing and managing release processes for code through development, test, and production environment

Your knowledge & experience

• Demonstrated experience as a Release Manager in leading release activities across large scale program
• Experience in release automation tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI) and must have the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Good knowledge of version control systems (Git, SVN) and deployment strategies and tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef Puppet) is required
• Experience in creating and managing implementation plan and drive continuous improvement of the release processes
• Strong stakeholder management skills required to communicate release details and schedules to the stakeholders.

Working at Hollard

At Hollard, you'll discover an environment where you can truly make an impact. We offer the best of both worlds – the opportunity, agility and creativity of a company growing with scale, alongside a focus on becoming a catalyst for enduring, positive, social change.

We're a tight-knit team, where authentic voices and unique perspectives matter. We work supportively, collaboratively and inclusively to help shape our future and create shared value for our communities.

Hollard proudly promotes flexible work including remote work, non-traditional work patterns, and work-family balance. We're also unapologetically committed to creating a workplace that values your diversity with a true sense of inclusion. We actively seek to hire for your different lived experiences, including as it relates to disability, ethnicity, faith, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, gender diversity, sexual orientation, age, neurodiversity.

We're building something special. Working closely with our industry partners to reshape insurance for the better, we're people changing insurance.

Please note:
Even if you don't meet all our selection criteria, we encourage you to apply.

A full background check will be completed on the successful applicant.

Australian work rights are required for this position.

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