Assurance Analyst (Tech) (Rgn)

Bank of England; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Job summary

Bank of England is seeking an Assurance Analyst in Technology Directorate based in Leeds/London. The role is permanent and full-time with flexible working options, including part-time in-office attendance across the month.

In this role you will manage software releases, coordinate test environments, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure controlled deployments and release governance. The Bank emphasizes resilient, secure delivery and strong cross-team communication.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Change, Release and Test Environment Management tools.

Responsibilities

• Scheduling and planning releases.
• Maintaining and distributing a release schedule.
• Working collaboratively and managing communication with relevant stakeholders.
• Maintaining records and controlling environment usage to support release and change management activities.
• Engagement with Service to ensure Releases follow the Change Management process.
• Coordinate software implementations across test (controlled environments) and Live environments; provide input for CAB.

Job description

Assurance Analyst, Technology Directorate

Location: Leeds/London

Permanent

Full time

Flexible Working Options:

This role is open to flexible working patterns. These may include:

• Flexible start and end time to each day.
• Ability to adapt calendar as needed, for example to fit in the school run, gym or appointments.
• A 50% in-office attendance requirement that can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns, such as the flexibility to purchase a weekly train ticket for certain weeks.
• Working from abroad policy, subject to approval and policy within the team.

The Technology division leads and supports all aspects of technology delivery across the Bank, from maintaining critical systems which underpin the UK economy, to providing big data analytics, implementing comprehensive cyber security programmes, and introducing innovative solutions in support of a digital workplace.
Technology's key objective is to support all other areas of the Bank in achieving our collective mission to promote the good of the people of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability. This is achieved through the delivery of appropriate, high performing, resilient solutions and information services across the organisation and externally.

This role supports the Test Enablement function within Digital Assurance & Productivity Domain under the CTO Division. This function is principally responsible for defining, establishing and forward planning the Bank's portfolio release & test environment management function.

Collaborating with other related functions to coordinate release and test environment activity and to take charge of and own risks. It is also responsible for the process of managing, planning, scheduling, governing and controlling a software release through the different development lifecycle stages and environments; this can include deploying software releases, contention management and working closely with delivery and testing teams as well as the Business.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities of the Role:

• Scheduling and planning releases
  Maintaining and distributing a release schedule
• Working collaboratively and managing communication with relevant stakeholders
• Maintaining records and controlling environment usage to support release and change management activities
• Engagement with Service to ensure Releases follow the Change Management process
• Co-ordinate software implementations across test (controlled environments) and Live environments
  Provide input and support for Releases being represented at the Change Advisory Board (CAB)
• Provide support in collating and reviewing the artefacts required for every release (Release Acceptance Criteria)
• Provide administration support including arranging meetings, minute taking, documentation, resource request for release, change request closure, record keeping and audit support
• Knowledge of Change, Release and Test Environment Management tools (e.g. BMC Helix, Planview Release & Verify, Jira, Azure DevOps)
• Written and verbal communication skills for presenting across both Business and