Technical Release Manager - M&G plc. in Edinburgh

Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions. Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer workplace accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role. We are on a journey to reinvent how people think about their financial future, making conversations around retirement easier and more relevant, offering diversified products, rethinking and improving the end-to-end experience for our customers and using technology to effectively engage with them in real time and help them make better decisions about their finances.

You should apply if you have:

• At least 5 years' experience in Release Management owning all types of change through to implementation.
• Experience working in fast-paced agile environments.
• Detailed, logical and diligent approach to delivery of releases.
• Confident, collaborative and persuasive approach with stakeholders ensuring stakeholders are compliant to the Release and governance process.
• Experience contributing to, and achieving, continuous improvement goals.
• Take personal accountability, collaborate with colleagues, make effective decisions and help others operate at their best.
• Operate in a fair, trustworthy, and genuine way with my colleagues and customers.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• To be aligned with Life Technology to shape and manage the pipeline of technology changes, i.e. releases, within that portfolio.
• Coordinate and deliver regular, high-quality releases into Production following the Agile development process, ensuring releases comply with our governance and best practices.
• To engage proactively with portfolios from a release management perspective at all stages of their lifecycle.
• To be fully engaged with the portfolio leads, product owners, project managers, development teams and business and their representatives in order to encourage earlier and continuous release planning.
• To organise and co-ordinate the implementation of releases including overseeing a virtual team across multiple departments.
• Run and own release retrospectives to drive continuous improvement to increase efficiency and effectiveness of release delivery as M&G grows.
• Where necessary perform detailed implementation planning taking into account: risks; internal and external dependencies; resources; adherence to controls.
• Be available to work out of office hours as required owning implementation plans.
• Administration / Development of the logistic suite based on the Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence, etc).
• Help develop and drive transformation of the Release Function as we continue to scale and deliver change more safely and more often.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Strong experience in Release Management owning all types of change through to implementation.
• Experience working in fast-paced agile environments and have understanding of agile/scrum project planning, execution and risk management.
• Detailed, logical and diligent approach to delivery of releases.
• Confident, collaborative and persuasive approach with stakeholders ensuring stakeholders are compliant to the Release and governance process.
• Release Management Tools: JIRA Release type for all implementation tasks and deployment steps. Confluence for all documentation and process.
• Experience with release processes including automated CI/CD DevOps pipelines to get code through test environments and to production.
• Ability to navigate through multiple stakeholders to achieve common objectives.
• Experience contributing to, and achieving, continuous improvement goals.

Experience:

• 10+ years of industry experience with at least 5 years in release management.

What we offer:

At M&G, we're committed to helping you thrive and supporting your wellbeing, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, while planning confidently for your future. Our UK benefits include:

• A valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions.
• Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to financial wellbeing and support services.
• Enjoy 38 days annual leave including bank holidays, with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days and additional flexibility through our Time Off When You Need It policy.
• Our market leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave.
• Health & Protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options.

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions. If you need assistance or an alternative means of applying for a role due to a disability or additional need, please let us know by contacting us at: careers@mandg.com