Release Manager
Allianz UK
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Job summary
Allianz UK is seeking an experienced Release Governance Lead to shape and mature the Release Management Governance & Control Framework. You will operationalise its principles, drive best practice, strengthen oversight and improve delivery through governance, automation opportunities, and centralised release planning.
This hybrid role, based in Guildford, Bournemouth or Birmingham, requires collaboration with delivery teams, suppliers and stakeholders to ensure readiness before deployment, and to
Qualifications
- Experience in a SIAM or multi-supplier model.
- Experience in financial services or regulated industry.
- Knowledge of PRA, FCA or DORA.
- Exposure to large-scale transformation programmes and complex multi-team release events.
- Understanding of Agile, DevOps and modern software delivery methodologies.
- Experience supporting the implementation of governance frameworks and operating models.
- Familiarity with release automation and AI-driven operational improvements.
Responsibilities
- Own and operate the Release Readiness Assurance process and issue readiness decisions.
- Provide governance oversight for high-risk releases and ensure plans meet standards.
- Review the Forward Schedule of Change and Release Calendar for documentation.
- Challenge delivery teams and suppliers when governance docs do not meet standards.
- Ensure Service Acceptance and Operational Readiness evidence before release deployment.
- Produce governance reporting, risk visibility for senior stakeholders.
- Identify trends and drive continuous improvement in release governance.
- Contribute to Allianz UK's Release Management framework aligned with group standards.
- Build trusted relationships with delivery teams, suppliers and stakeholders.
Skills
Job description
Join Allianz UK’s Service Delivery Team and play a pivotal role in shaping and maturing Release Management governance across our business. You will lead the operationalisation of a newly designed Release Management Governance & Control Framework, driving best practice, strengthening oversight, and helping to improve release delivery through effective governance, automation opportunities, and centralised release planning.
This role can be based in our Guildford, Bournemouth or Birmingham office. Please note that this is a hybrid working role with the expectation that you attend the office twice a week.
Pay: Up to £78,000 per year.
Pay is based on experience, skills and location and forms part of a competitive total rewards package.
- Own and operate the Release Readiness Assurance (RRA) process, assessing evidence submitted by delivery teams and issuing formal readiness decisions.
- Provide independent governance oversight for high-risk releases, ensuring deployment plans, risk assessments and readiness evidence meet agreed standards.
- Review and maintain oversight of the Forward Schedule of Change and Release Calendar, ensuring planned activity is fully documented and accurately reflected.
- Challenge delivery teams and suppliers where governance documentation, impact assessments or release plans do not meet required standards.
- Ensure Service Acceptance and Operational Readiness evidence is completed before release deployment.
- Produce governance reporting, insight and risk visibility for senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Identify trends and drive continuous improvement across release governance practices and controls.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of Allianz UK's Release Management framework, ensuring alignment with Allianz Group standards and regulatory expectations.
- Build trusted relationships with delivery teams, suppliers and business stakeholders, becoming the go‑to authority for release governance and assurance.
We support the government scheme "Access to Work". Please feel free to ask us about the Access to Work scheme.
- Experience working within a SIAM or multi-supplier operating model.
- Experience within financial services or another highly regulated industry.
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as PRA, FCA or DORA.
- Exposure to large-scale transformation programmes and complex multi-team release events.
- Understanding of Agile, DevOps and modern software delivery methodologies.
- Experience supporting the implementation of governance frameworks and operating models.
- Familiarity with release automation and AI-driven operational improvements.
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from- so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Hybrid working
- Annual performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
- Retail discounts
- Volunteering days
Do you need flexibility with the hours you work? Let us know as part of your application and if it’s right for our customers, our business and for you, then we’ll do everything we can to make it happen. Here at Allianz, we are signatories of the ABIs flexible working charter. We believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity, and you to thrive - Your work life balance is important to us.
At Allianz, we are committed to fostering building an inclusive, accessible workplace where everyone can thrive. As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates and offer tailored adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in the workplace, whether that’s assistive technology, ergonomic equipment, flexible working arrangements, mentoring or coaching. We want to encourage candidates to speak with us about any adjustments they may need. We’re here to support you.
If you have a disability or long‑term health condition and meet the essential criteria, you can choose to be considered through our Offer an Interview Scheme.
We reserve the right to close the advert early if we reach enough applications.
105606 | Operations | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz UK | Full-Time | Permanent
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