IT Release Manager

_Envision Employment Solutions_ _is currently looking for an __IT Release Manager_ _ for one of our partners, a leading Digital Bank!_

THE ROLE

You shape how the digital bank releases safely and at speed. You will build the controls, evidence and automated pathways that allow teams to deploy independently. For higher-risk or coordinated releases, you will enable the CAB to drive the go or no-go decision based on testing, security, operational readiness and business impact. In a bank being built and shipped at the same time, that judgement is critical to avoiding customer impact and regulatory concern.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Build and oversee a release process, enabled by automated CI/CD pipelines, supporting 20–30 feature deployments per day.
• Establish risk-based release pathways so routine changes deploy automatically when defined quality, security and operational controls pass.
• Coordinate major and cross-team releases across development, QA, infrastructure, security, operations and business teams.
• Drive the go or no-go decisions as a CAB member for higher-risk releases using test results, defects, security findings and readiness criteria.
• Embed quality, security and audit evidence into delivery pipelines, reducing manual sign-off reliance.
• Ensure production validation is automated where possible, including smoke tests, health checks and critical customer journeys.
• Maintain release calendar for major changes, dependencies, business events and restricted periods.
• Use release and reliability metrics to improve delivery speed, quality and operational resilience.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• 7+ years in release management, software delivery, DevSecOps or change enablement.
• Experience in continuous delivery, automated deployments, independently deployable services.
• Working knowledge of ITIL release and change management, applied pragmatically within agile and DevSecOps environments.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, modern DevSecOps toolchains.
• A grounding in QA, security testing, performance testing and production readiness.
• Strong judgement in deciding which changes to be automated and which require additional oversight.
• Financial-services and regulatory experience is valuable but not essential.

YOU’LL THRIVE HERE IF YOU

• You want a launch you can point to and know it went cleanly because of how you ran it
• You treat the rollback plan as part of the release, never an afterthought
• You hold the gate when a team is pushing to ship and the evidence is not there