Assistant Release Manager Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
41292 - 45880 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Thursday 17 August 2023
Salary Range
£41,292 - £45,880Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
At Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) our vision is to be the best bank for our customers. By putting customers first, keeping banking simple and making a difference together, we're helping Britain prosper.We're constantly evolving our business and IT platform teams around our ambition to drive sustainable growth. All motivated by our next chapter and what we can achieve together.
As an Assistant Release Manager, you'll oversee and support the completion of all readiness activities for implementing low-complex or single-platform changes. You'll also support highly complex and multi-platform changes into digital and non-digital channels, ensuring that a clear schedule of events is agreed and all governance requirements are met.
You'll engage with the various Service Delivery teams and Value Streams to have a clear line of sight of the change portfolio and support the Implementation activities accordingly. You will also support the design of bespoke implementation strategies to support complex/non-standard changes, viewing change from various perspectives – customer, service, performance, operations.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Release Manager
SALARY: £41,292 - £45,880
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Sighthill North office
About this opportunity
About this opportunity
We are looking to recruit an Assistant Release Manager to be part of our Payments Services Platform and help achieve our mission to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely.
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
As an Assistant Release Manager, you will be responsible for Resourcing and Governance activities. You will support the Senior Release Managers with coordination, schedule of events (SOE) and delivery of implementation activities to ensure our new services, infrastructure and code is implemented safely into the live environment. Flexibility is key as you'll be required to work over some evenings and weekends.
You’ll also:
- Engage with delivery teams, the Infrastructure Delivery Manager (IDM) and the Business to ensure that the right resources are aligned to support Implementation activities
- Support the Senior Implementation Managers to deliver application change into live environment working safely without disruption to service
- Ensure that the right Governance Processes and procedures are adhered to
What you’ll need
We’re looking for someone who is experienced in Implementation Management processes, keen to learn, able to communicate well, with an interest in ensuring right outcome is delivered for customers and colleagues. A willingness to get stuck in and learn on the job is crucial.
Ideally, you’ll have:
- A background in Implementation/Release Management but we are willing to train/mentor the right person who has experience in Project Management or Change Management
- Good technical knowledge and skills in relation to Payments applications (but not essential)
- Good communication skills to interact with a range of teams in both the business and technical domain.
- Good customer and relationship management skills; ensuring everyone is clear on the processes and outcomes of changes with protection of service in mind.
- A positive outlook to joining us on this journey as we learn and grow together and adopt new methodologies where appropriate.
- A can-do attitude / self-motivated individual who can demonstrate energy and enthusiasm to the get the job done in a fast-paced environment.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident.
So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident.
So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
