At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape how teams deliver change, ensuring faster and safer releases.
- Company: Join a leading financial services firm with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package.
- Other info: Great career growth opportunities and a supportive work environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on release strategies in a large-scale organisation.
- Qualifications: Experience in release management and strong understanding of modern delivery practices.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Do you want to shape how our client delivers change, enabling teams to release faster, safer, and with greater confidence? If you're passionate about modern release practices, improving flow, and removing bottlenecks at scale, this is a role where you can make a real impact.
The Role
You will be joining the Engineering and Service Delivery community, working closely with Platform Owners, DevSecOps, Quality Engineering, and Environments teams. This is a highly collaborative role that sits at the heart of how change is delivered across the organisation. Operating across multiple platforms, you'll provide oversight and coordination of releases, ensuring teams are aligned, environments are ready, and risks are understood and managed. You'll play a key role in evolving our release practices towards automation, observability, and progressive delivery, while enabling teams to move faster without compromising stability or compliance.
What You'll Do
- Defining and evolving release and deployment strategies that enable safe, efficient, and frequent delivery across multiple platforms
- Leading cross-team release planning and coordination, ensuring visibility of dependencies, risks, and environment readiness
- Driving the adoption of modern release practices including automation, policy-as-code, and progressive delivery approaches such as canary and blue/green deployments
- Using data and engineering metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR) to identify bottlenecks and improve delivery performance
- Leading and developing a small team, building capability and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and shared ownership of release outcomes
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience in Release, Deployment, or Service Transition leadership within complex technology environments
- Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices including CI/CD, DevOps, and automated release processes
- Experience working with multiple teams and stakeholders to coordinate releases and manage dependencies at scale
- Ability to use data and metrics to improve release performance, reduce risk, and enhance delivery outcomes
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, operations, and business teams
What's In It for You
- Impact: Lead a critical release & deployment strategy in a large-scale organisation
- Flexibility: Hybrid and flexible working options
- Career Growth: Ongoing learning, development, and leadership exposure
- Benefits Package: Annual discretionary bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays + holiday trading, Up to 10% matched pension, Private medical insurance, Electric car salary sacrifice scheme, Colleague mortgage benefits, 3 paid volunteering days, Gym discounts & wellbeing support
Apply today or reach out directly to Gareth Squires for a confidential chat.
Release Manager employer: WRK DIGITAL LTD
As a Release Manager in our dynamic Yorkshire office, you'll be part of a forward-thinking team that values collaboration and innovation. We offer a flexible hybrid working environment, competitive benefits including a generous holiday allowance and private medical insurance, and a strong focus on career growth through ongoing learning and leadership opportunities. Join us to make a meaningful impact in shaping modern release practices while enjoying a supportive and inclusive work culture.
