Release Manager, Kannon Platform in London

Location: London

Corporate Title: Vice President

Group Strategic Analytics is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.

You will be joining Deutsche Bank Group Strategic Analytics, playing a pivotal role in managing the release lifecycle of the strategic Kannon platform. Kannon is central to solving quantitative problems for Investment Banking trading businesses, and your expertise will ensure smooth, reliable, and timely delivery of new functionality to production. You will collaborate closely with development teams (C++ and Python) and various stakeholders across the bank to ensure seamless release processes and maintain high standards of quality and stability for this critical platform.

What we’ll offer you:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days.
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family.
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits.
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year.

Your key responsibilities:

• Oversee and manage the structured Kannon release process, from initial code cut to bank-wide production deployment, ensuring robust user acceptance and regression testing.
• Manage Kannon code branches and their respective deployed snapshots and builds, including defining release versions.
• Ensure the timely execution of release activities, including code cuts, patch management, UAT deployments, and regression tests, adhering to established timelines.
• Manage the integration of critical fixes (patches) into releases, ensuring all changes are thoroughly unit tested and impacted regressions are identified and documented.
• Coordinate with dependent applications on their release cycles to ensure Kannon consumes correct versions and manage resulting impacts or test failures.
• Oversee the regression testing cycle working with regression owners to set up tests, investigate issues, and escalate as needed.
• Manage regression workflows and sign-off processes, including reviewing acceptable differences based on defined tolerance limits and ensuring proper approvals from various stakeholders.
• Provide clear, timely, and comprehensive updates on release status, issues, and patches to all relevant teams and stakeholders, including through email alerts and designated communication channels.
• Act as a point of escalation for release-related issues, facilitating investigation, remediation, and resolution of systematic and batch-specific problems.

Your skills and experience:

• Proven experience in release management within financial services or complex technical environments, adept at coordinating cross-functional teams, managing stakeholder expectations, and handling critical incidents under pressure.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, version control systems (e.g., Git/Bitbucket), and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Experience with testing methodologies, particularly regression testing, and an understanding of different testing types (e.g., batch, integration, performance).
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex technical information to diverse audiences.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, capable of managing multiple concurrent release streams.
• Understanding of financial market data, risk, and P&L concepts is beneficial (as these are outputs of Kannon).

How we’ll support you:

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.

We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards).

About us:

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively. Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group. We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.