Your release management skills are needed to Change the Bank! We are looking for a strong and dynamic Senior Release Delivery Manager to ensure successful delivery of Core Banking Platform releases. This is an opportunity for you to take a senior and high-profile role in the largest Banking Transformation currently underway in the Nordics.  As Senior Release Delivery Manager, you will be a spider in the net and act as the key player managing the overall release with close interactions with Program Leadership, business representatives, senior stakeholders, program execution teams, other release managers and operation and infrastructure teams. At the same time, you will be contributing to uplifting the release management capability both within the domain areas of your responsibility and also as a function within the Banking Technology Engineering System unit. The ideal candidate enjoys working with people and processes in highly complex environment context, can grasp the big picture and at the same time is able to go down into the details, to ensure detailed planning of release management activities.

About this opportunity

• Negotiate, communicate and track key common release milestones across the program 
• Take ownership of overall successful end-to-end delivery of releases 
• Drive quality and timeliness of the overall delivery 
• Produce regular Release Status Reports 
• Identify, act on and monitor key risks related to release delivery 
• Facilitate Release meetings & stakeholder communication 
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the Release Management capability, processes & methodology 
• Defining the release governance model and milestone plan

Who you are

• Educational background relevant to Bachelors/Master's degree or the equivalent experience  
• Extensive background and proven capability in large project or programme delivery and release management
• Experience working in a complex international environment  
• Understanding of Agile, Scrum, SAFe methodologies  
• Knowledge on Change Management processes and tools 
• Deep knowledge on SW and infrastructure releasing cycles 
• Experience working with incident, problem and change management 
• Excellent negotiation, networking and interpersonal skills 
• Very good level of English  
• Strong leadership and management skills 
• Accountability and proactivity  

Next steps

Please submit your application no later than 15th September.

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