Release Lead

**Req ID**: 69442
**Department**: Tech ARC Digital
**Division**: Technology
**Location**: Brisbane
About Us

About the Role

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'll 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.

This role is located in Brisbane, QLD.

What will your day look like?

Release Lead converts business initiatives into cross-platform releases of new technology features or enhancements and ensures customer value is delivered as quickly as possible. Release Lead influence squads to transform release processes to improve delivery and help manage Inter-Tech Area dependencies.

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 implementations.
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
Establish the delivery of governance, transition and approval of artefacts and processes, to enable a release to progress as planned.
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.

Experience in scheduling work to optimise workflow/throughput through a number of Technology Areas to maintain velocity and team cadence
Dev-ops understanding (CI/CD Pipeline). Experience in common tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Service Now etc.
Exceptional stakeholder management experience
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
So why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. you'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.