Strategic Release Lead for High-Impact Deployments

People First Bank; Adelaide; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements

Salary discounts on banking, health, &

Job summary

People First Bank is seeking an experienced Release Manager to lead planning, governance, and execution of technology releases across projects, products, and BAU changes. You will engage with engineering, testing, security, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure well-planned, low-disruption deployments.

In this fixed-term role, you’ll drive readiness, risk management, and post-implementation learning, while contributing to continuous improvement of release frameworks and tooling within

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Release Management, Change Management, Delivery, DevOps, or Technology Operations.
• Coordinating complex technology releases across multiple teams.
• Familiarity with ITIL, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and service transition practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed release plans, milestones, dependencies, implementation schedules, and resource requirements.
• Coordinate release activity across delivery teams, platforms, applications, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate release records and contribute to the enterprise release calendar.
• Lead release readiness reviews and ensure all testing, security, risk, architecture, and operational approvals are in place.
• Verify implementation, validation, rollback, communications, and support plans prior to deployment.
• Own release run sheets and coordinate implementation activities within approved release windows.
• Facilitate implementation bridges and stakeholder communications during release events.
• Monitor progress, manage dependencies, coordinate issue resolution, and support go/no-go decision making.
• Coordinate rollback and recovery activities where required.
• Deliver accurate, timely, and action-oriented communications to stakeholders.
• Drive lessons learned and post-implementation reviews.
• Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of release frameworks, standards, tooling, and automation opportunities.

Skills

Release Management

Change Management

DevOps

ITIL

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

CI/CD

Leadership

Education

Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent industry experience

Tools

ServiceNow

Azure DevOps

Jira

Confluence

Job description

People First Bank is seeking an experienced Release Manager to lead planning, governance, and execution of technology releases across projects, products, and BAU changes. You will engage with engineering, testing, security, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure well-planned, low-disruption deployments.

In this fixed-term role, you’ll drive readiness, risk management, and post-implementation learning, while contributing to continuous improvement of release frameworks and tooling within