Release & Environment Manager

Job Title: Release & Environment Manager
Req ID: 81400
Department: Tech Suncorp
Division: Technology
Location: Brisbane
About Us

At Suncorp Bank you can build a career with exceptional growth potential, within a culture of purpose and belonging. As part of the ANZ Group, when you apply to join Suncorp Bank, you’ll be directed to ANZ systems and receive correspondence and notifications from ANZ as part of the recruitment process.

About the Role

As a Release/Environment/ Manager in our technology team, you’ll be responsible for coordinating the activities of release and deploy of major and minor releases to impacted infrastructure, applications, and interfaces.

You will work across releases, deployments and change management. Build strong working relationships internally across program, project managers, governance team and externally with our strategic vendors

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Type: Permanant
Role Location: Brisbane
Work Hours: Full time (Hybrid)

What will your day look like?

You are accountable to:
Coordinate the Major and Minor Releases within the Test, Pre-Production Environment (PPE) and Production environments
Prepare and obtain approval for the Release & Deployment Plan for each release
Maintain the Change Record, and Change Record approval discussions for production deployment in line with agreed Change lead times, ensuring evidence of functional requirements, testing and business acceptance of the change.
Facilitate the Release and Deployment and Change Advisory Board to provide governance over the portfolio of services.
Partner with Technology architects and subject matter experts to understand the technologies and the benefits that the new technologies will bring to Suncorp.
Liaises with business and IT partners on release scheduling and communication of progress. Ensures release processes and procedures are applied.
Develops implementation plans for complex requests for change. Evaluates risks to the integrity of service environment inherent in proposed implementations (including availability, performance, security, and compliance of the business services impacted). Seeks authority for those activities, reviews the effectiveness of change implementation, suggests improvement to organisational procedures governing change management.
Work closely with the Change and Communications area to ensure that business users are engaged to perform the PVT.
Develop and maintain release and deployment - related documentation sufficient to audit requirements.
Create high quality deployment artefacts that meet compliance expectations
Lead the continuous improvement of release and deployment document outputs
Support team in identifying the scope of the PVT required to meet business requirements
Support the culture of innovation and continuous improvement
Participate in Retrospectives, Post implementation or incident reviews
Drive positive risk culture within team
Perform release and deployment activities aligned to approved windows that may be after-hours
What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

Experience in Agile ways of working is required
Many years of release Management experience in a complex, integrated environment
API’s (desirable)
Skills and experience with cloud concepts (preferably AWS)
Expert level Jira Tool
Basic level Zephyr Test Management Tool
Demonstrated PVT management experience
Negotiation skills
Time management
Risk Management
DevOps experience (highly desirable)
Banking / Financial organisation experience (highly desirable)

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

So why join us?

Suncorp Bank is a proud part of the ANZ Group and a place where you’ll be doing work that really matters. That’s because every role, in every team is working towards supporting the financial wellbeing of our million+ customers.

Our team members’ wellbeing is a top priority and we know it’s the added extras outside the workplace that can make all the difference. We offer a range of benefits and support resources so you can create a healthy work-life balance, helping you bring your best every day. We also provide tools that enable remote work to support flexible work arrangements whenever possible.

Being part of Suncorp Bank opens a world of exceptional growth opportunities, across Suncorp Bank as well as the many divisions within the ANZ Group which operates in almost 30 markets across the globe.

Suncorp Bank is committed to creating a workplace where people from all backgrounds, identities and beliefs can thrive in an environment of inclusivity and mutual respect. We welcome applications from everyone and invite you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability or access requirement, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 81400.

Job Posting End Date

02/12/2024 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)