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Environment Management Lead

Environment Management Lead

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Hybrid working with base location as either Edinburgh, Manchester, Coventry, Widnes, Milton Keynes or London.

In a nutshell

The role holder is responsible for defining and implementing the Environmental management strategy and supporting processes for SBAFS and will be responsible for managing all test environments used for test execution. The role holder is an “air traffic controller” for environments and technical components required to test and assure software / infrastructure components for release to production. The role is one focused primarily on tracking and scheduling, but it also involves managing the build, maintenance, and integration of technical components to support testing across multiple versions of interconnected systems.

What you need to do

• Define, deliver, and own the Environmental Management strategy and processes for the SBAFS
• Lead and collaborate with Project Managers, Test Managers, Engineering/Cloud Managers, Systems Integrators to understand the project pipelines, project requirements, technical dependencies in order define the approach and sequencing of projects in conjunction with environment management constraints.
• Forecast environment requirements based on anticipated future demand
• Responsible for the development and oversight of supplier infrastructure and environments delivery plans for SBAFS Projects
• Collaborate with Release Management to support a continuous release schedule across multiple groups
• Lead and manage the coordination of effort to build / configure environments and provide the tracking status of environment configuration activities.
• Define key environmental management and efficiency KPI’s & implement monitoring protocols to ensure uptime of test environments is in line with KPI’s
• Ensure communication frameworks for test environment availability are in place
• Escalate any lack of resources or gaps in knowledge to Test Practice Management & Senior Portfolio Test Managers
• Mentor and train Environment Analysts, members of the test team and wider business who need to support with the Environmental management processes.

What you need to know and show

• Experience in test environments build / provision for isolated subsystems and end-to-end enterprise solutions configuration using a mixture of cloud-based infrastructure and or physical components.
• Excellent release automation and configuration management experience along with service virtualisation
• Experience in AWS , NODE JS, API creation and manipulation of code to produce data sets, alongside management of test data
• In-depth understanding of modern approaches to deployment automation on both cloud-based infrastructure and physical components.
• Demonstrates that they are fully commercially aware in the context of environmental services and project delivery whilst competent in approaches to continuous improvement and automation
• Proven ability to define input to and understand test strategies that encompass the full testing life cycle.
• Supplier management skills developed in an IT environment using internal and external resources.
• Must have a track record of scheduling, organising and tracking the progress of environment work across multiple projects across the full software development lifecycle using a variety of tool sets.
• Experienced in Agile methods (SCRUM, SAFe etc.) and waterfall hybrid environments and be able to adapt.
• Excellent relationship management skills including a proven ability to influence at a Senior Management leader with passionate edge that creates a buzz that amazing people want to be part of
• Demonstrates competence in all key areas of management and leadership – communication, motivation/delegation, financial planning and control, quality management, risk analysis and delivery.

Our Benefits

In addition to the all- important competitive salary, pension & bonus offering, we totally get that life outside work is important to us all. So, we want to shout out some of our other great benefits.

We offer flexible working to help you achieve a good work/life balance

Opportunity to buy extra holidays is on the table

Discounts on your weekly shop, buying a laptop or sofa? We’ve got it covered through your Sainsburys, Argos and Habitat store discount card

Cycle to work scheme

A little bit about us and our culture

We’re proud of our heritage as the UK’s first supermarket bank. As digital technology drives the banking landscape we want to be at the cutting edge of this technology, offering award winning innovative digital banking products to our customers. Technology is where we see our growth therefore, we need innovators to join us and drive the next phase of our evolution.

We’re a friendly bunch who collectively share a passion to make our customers’ financial lives easier. As part of the wider Sainsbury’s Group, being one of the UK’s most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential. Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.

Everyone is welcome at the Sainsbury’s Group, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours within their working days, giving plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

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