Release Manager - CTU Transformation (Hybrid, 12m)

Challenger Limited; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Exclusive employee benefits

Job summary

Challenger Limited, a leading Australian investment manager, seeks a Release Manager to own the end-to-end release lifecycle for the CTU Transformation Program. You will coordinate integrated releases across technology and business teams, manage dependencies, and drive governance and readiness activities to ensure smooth production deployments.

The role emphasises structured release planning, risk management and collaboration with project managers, delivery leads and external partners in a

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a financial services environment, ideally across wealth management, superannuation, insurance or banking.
• Experience supporting large transformation, platform or change programs.
• Strong release planning, governance, deployment coordination, dependency management and implementation readiness experience within large-scale transformation programs.
• Exposure to Agile delivery environments and planning frameworks, including PI planning.
• Experience managing enterprise releases spanning multiple applications, teams and delivery partners.
• Experience coordinating production deployments, cutover activities and post-release stabilisation.
• Understanding of environment management, release controls and operational risk management.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and coordinate across a broad stakeholder landscape.
• Experience working within multi-vendor or delivery partner environments, with the ability to coordinate across organisational boundaries.
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach, with a willingness to roll up your sleeves when required.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the integrated release roadmap across multiple program workstreams.
• Coordinate release planning, sequencing, dependency management and scheduling across business and technology teams.
• Establish and manage governance processes, including release readiness reviews, go/no-go assessments and release approvals.
• Partner with Project Managers, Technical Delivery Leads, Test Managers, Business Change Leads, Business Owners, Product Owners, Delivery Leaders and technology teams to coordinate integrated program releases.
• Identify and manage release risks, issues, dependencies, environment constraints and deployment conflicts that could impact release outcomes.
• Coordinate technical, operational and business readiness activities, including cutover planning, deployment, rollback planning and transition into production.
• Facilitate release governance forums and provide clear release status, risks and recommendations to program leadership.
• Oversee production verification, post-release stabilisation and continuous improvement in release management practices, governance and delivery processes.

Skills

Release management

Governance

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Planning & scheduling

Risk & dependency management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Challenger Limited, a leading Australian investment manager, seeks a Release Manager to own the end-to-end release lifecycle for the CTU Transformation Program. You will coordinate integrated releases across technology and business teams, manage dependencies, and drive governance and readiness activities to ensure smooth production deployments.

The role emphasises structured release planning, risk management and collaboration with project managers, delivery leads and external partners in a