Job Title Release Manager

Location London

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

Deutsche Bank’s Technology, Data & Innovation (TDI) is a global team of technology specialists, spread across multiple trading hubs and technology centres. We have a strong focus on promoting technical excellence – our engineers work at the forefront of financial services innovation using cutting-edge technologies. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and to create excellent opportunities for talented technologists. Our team work in close partnership with business, jointly creating #GlobalHausbank dedicated to our clients’ lasting success and financial security at home and abroad.

Market Risk platform RiskFinder, utilizes large-scale distributed computing capability and Big Data technologies to process over 600 billion scenario points a day for Market & Credit Risk metrics, with dynamic aggregation capability across the raw scenarios to generate metrics such as Value-at-Risk (VaR), Expected Potential Exposure (EPE) and Portfolio Stress Scenarios. Most of these metrics have strict service-level agreements (SLA).

As a Release Manager, you will be planning, coordinating, and managing platform wide agile releases to production, in regular cadence, ensuring production stability when releasing new capability.

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What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect: 

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working 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

• Maintain and improve the release process. Introduce quality toll gates to capture issues early to ensure defect leakage to final phase of testing is within the threshold. This would mean, healthy push back, as appropriate, if the release quality is compromised
• Improve the Software Development Life-Cycle operating model, in discussion with the tribes and leads, that will help to maintain the 2-week release cadence across the stack
• Manage release scope, review platform and testing concentration, and ensure the changes to production are vetted with respect to risk exposure via service validation and testing, fulfilling delivery standards/requirements, production stability and efficiencies
• Supervise the promotion path and deployment process, adhere to bank’s controls for promotion of the change from User Acceptance Testing to production and DR environments
• Drive automation and simplification of deployment and packaging processes (tools, scripts, production support instructions and post release validations). Use SAFe agile methodology to create backlog for improvement and explain the benefit hypothesis in the backlog prioritisation forum
• Ensure adherence to banks Risk & Control requirement as well as internal / external audit

Your skills and experience

• Technical background and good knowledge of Unix and Windows operating systems and databases. Good understanding of development tools - TeamCity, Git, SonarQube etc.
• Good analytical, problem solving, and conflict management skills – a good team player.
• Experience in release management and production code deployment.
• Exceptional communication skills, fluent verbal and written English – ability to prepare and present problems and solutions to senior management and stakeholders.
• Managing risks & issues, with timely escalation, when needed.

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• Coaching and support from experts
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named a The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for five consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

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.