Digital Release Manager

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as a Digital Release Manager at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on key critical skills mentioned below:

• Strong Change Management/Release Management experience.
• Sound knowledge of SDLC process.
• Excellent verbal and written communication to effectively collaborate with stakeholders.
• Good Risk Management, Stakeholder Management skills.
• Plan, Maintain and Communicate release schedule for all changes/releases.
• Raise change records for all the non-prod and prod environment changes/releases.
• Identify and manage any risks related to changes/releases.
• Ensure appropriate teams are aligned in advance for changes/releases
• Ensure timely completion of Implementation Plan/Test Completion Reports walkthrough and all the signed off release artifacts are received on time for change records to be progressed.
• Ensure change records are represented in different forums as per requirement (CAB, Project calls, etc) and approvals are received in time for change records.
• Ensure pre-requisites tasks are completed in time for all the changes/releases (LCT approval, Component backups, etc).
• Ensure compliance with entry and exit governance criteria for all the changes/releases.
• Lead/Manage release deployment calls and business live proving calls with all the participating teams.
• Publish regular release/change status to relevant stakeholders.
• Manage any ad-hoc changes (Planned or ECR) and multiple releases in a week.
• Evaluate and maintain release management process, keeping it simple and effective.
• Ensure lower environments are synced up post successful implementation of PROD releases.
• Hands on experience and ability to guide development team on technical aspects as required
• Aware of Project delivery methodologies and should be also aware of Budgeting and Estimation
• Engagements and tracking of Pre-production and post production activities.

This role is based in Pune.