Release Manager

The opportunity: An experienced Release Manager, who leads teams to follow best practices in development standards and coding reviews. You have an enthusiasm for learning new skills and initiative to deliver the best outcomes for our clients. You will be primarily responsible the management and protection of releases through, where appropriate, Build/Develop, QA, UAT, Pre-Prod and Production environments across multiple technical stacks including front ends, Middleware, core commerce platforms and more. This is a contractual role based in London. What you''ll get to do: Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities. Analyse risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality. Work cohesively with external partners, suppliers, product owners, and system integrators (SI''s) Develop common strategies for release governance across multiple systems Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required. Act as guardian to uphold the integrity of the branching strategy and ensure processes are optimised to enable frequent and smooth releases Know and understand impacts of branches and code merges in the repositories used by the dev teams. Work with third party managed-hosting providers to increase automated processes end-to-end Work with the development teams. Coach and help automate release processes. Inform senior management of enterprise-wide exposure to release risk and effectively mitigate it Create, track, and maintain a published ..... full job details .....