Release Manager at AXA Health

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsibility for overall release planning and liaison with the key contacts to deliver the agreed functionality to the agreed timescales on the commercial insurance and claims releases
• Managing release status communications with AXA Insurance key stakeholders
• Ensuring release readiness for pre-production and production check points
• Managing resulting warranty periods, ensuring any production defects are identified and resolved in line with business expectations
• Defining, documenting and communicating the release process to the release stakeholders
• Regularly reviewing release progress against plans and identifying and resolving non project resource conflicts alongside the lead release manager
• Reviewing release content and scope to identify and communicate any increase in risk, impact or issues relating to the release as a whole

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.

What you’ll bring:

• Previous experience with proven track record of project/release management in large projects, programmes, released following an Agile delivery approach
• Accredited at foundation level and making progress towards/have attained practitioner level in a PM or Change qualification (Prince2 practitioner, ITIL, ISEB, APMP, ISO, CMMI)
• Strong stakeholder management
• Expert understanding of end-to-end IT solutions and the IT delivery lifecycle
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Experience of public cloud release management and migration programs would be desirable
• Able and willing to learn new technologies, skills and methodologies