Release Lead

About Us

At ANZ, we're applying new ways technology and data can be harnessed as we work towards a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

About the Role

As a Release Lead in our Tech ARC Digital domain, you’ll champion Agile ways of working across multiple squads, and will be working with Product Owners, Analysts and Delivery Leads across Tribes to convert business initiatives into cross-platform releases of new technology features or enhancements.

You’ll support and incorporate best practices in asset and services implementation, to enable squads to rapidly, reliably and efficiently develop, test and release high quality solutions to deliver value for customers.

 

You’ll provide advice and guidance across the Tribe about Change Management and the ANZ Delivery Framework, applying a collaborative approach to provide mentoring, coaching, and training as you transform release processes to improve delivery and manage inter-Tech Area dependencies.

 

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

 

Role Type: Permanent
Role Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bengaluru
Work Hours: Regular with Hybrid work model

What will your day look like?

As a Release Lead, you are accountable to:

• Act as the SME and owner of the change and delivery process across the Tribe

• Provide Release Management as a service to the Tribe, working closely with Squad Product Owners, Engineers and Technical leads to coach, plan and manage successful implementation across multiple products and teams

• Promote and communicate planned releases to ensure fully visibility by all stakeholders

• Drive continuous improvement of the release management framework and help coach and educate less experienced parties

• Facilitate and lead agile release planning sessions and ensure outcomes are well communicated and agreed

• Drive collaborative culture within Technology Areas and Tribes, providing transparency on priorities to ensure customer outcomes are delivered on time

• Negotiate release schedule across platforms to present the best outcome for the customer and ANZ

• Oversee the approval and management of deployment activities into production, e.g. code deployment, via representation to the Tribe Change Forum

• Establish the delivery of governance, transition and approval of artefacts and processes, to enable a release to progress as planned.  And feed that into the Tribe Change forum and production support

• Develop, implement and leverage an Agile Release Train where required, to enable a cadenced delivery regime for the tribe to use

Cont'd

• Co-ordinate and execute release activities in-squad, across squads, and at times, across tribes

• Help squads to co-ordinate the completion of post-production verification activities

• Establish and co-ordinate tribe-external engagements, for the purposes of release delivery

• Communicate release delivery plans to stakeholders

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• Experience in scheduling work to optimise workflow/throughput through a number of Technology Areas to maintain velocity and team cadence

• Dev-ops understanding (CI/CD Pipeline). Experience in common tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Service Now etc.

• Demonstrated competency to deliver Tribe/Squad outcomes from initiatives assigned to you via the application of tribe Governance, Transition and Approval processes

• Exceptional stakeholder management experience

• An understanding of the release process and how it’s applied across squads/tribes

• Able to understand technology principles and tools, to effectively provision and co-ordinate complex interdependencies as they are expressed in installations and implementations

• Knowledge and experience with cross-platform/cross tribe integration testing

• Ability to coordinate end to end delivery across multiple technology areas

• Keen eye to identify dependencies and risks and come up with mitigations plans accordingly

 

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

So why join us?

 

ANZ is a place where big things happen as we work together to provide banking and financial services across more than 30 markets. With more than 7,500 people, our Bengaluru team is the bank's largest technology, data and operations centre outside Australia. In operation for over 33 years, the centre is critical in delivering the bank's strategy and making an impact for our millions of customers around the world. Our Bengaluru team not only drives the transformation initiatives of the bank, it also drives a culture that makes ANZ a great place to be. We're proud that people feel they can be themselves at ANZ and 90 percent of our people feel they belong. 

 

We know our people need different things to be great in their role, so we offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid work (where the role allows it). Our people also enjoy a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services.

 

We want to continue building a diverse workplace and welcome applications from everyone. Please talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability or access requirements, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

 

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.com/careers/. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 92679.

Job Posting End Date

24/04/2025 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)

Experience Level

Senior Level